Hi Carl-

Susan, your initial thoughts on this were correct. The Surround version of the Lexicon Pantheon is not included in SONAR 6 Producer Edition. The Stereo version of the Lexicon Pantheon is still included.

And of course if you have SONAR 4 or 5 Producer Edition, and you keep the Pantheon Surround Reverb installed you can continue to use it in SONAR 6.

Thanks for the clarification.

-Susan

and when should we realistically expect our Free S6 upgrades to arrive ?
How will we be notified ?
Thanks

Hi jam-

The lack of response to this question makes me wonder if sonar 6 will be dongled, paced, etc... or some such funny business. I hope this is not the case.

I'm not sure why you would say that, since there was a reply from Carl Jacobsen about this just a little while ago: "You can expect the same level of copy protection that we had in Version 5."

-Susan

Edit: Sorry, jam, I was on the phone when you apparently found that, and sent the post off anyway!

Also, although Cakewalk have decided not to reveal the forthcoming feature set (which I understand to a degree to maintain a competitive edge), can you please tell me whether Sonar 6 will offer significant added features and bug fixes over 5 when scoring to video?


Thanks in advance.

Brendan

Carl.

Are you now able to offer anything further regarding the above enquiry about bug-fixes? I note that the Cakewalk collage features an illustration of scoring to video though I recently fell foul of various bugs in Sonar 5 Pro when attempting this.

Thanks,

Brendan.

ORIGINAL: bluespoet

BTW, when you born in August of 1972, I was humping sand dunes with a full field pack and a heavy M1 WW2 rifle in basic training for the US Army

Boy I love these condesending comments from the old to the young. I guess I'm the same age as bluespoet and I remember fogies telling me similar things about stomping through the sand at Midway. So for all you younguns out there, if you get this kind of guff just reply like one young man did to me a few years ago, "And I'll be paying for your stinkin' social security check while you sit on the couch in your diaper no longer being productive old man" I've kept my big mouth shut since then.

Please give us the bug fixes alone for SonarPE5. I dont want new features now. I will order my copy when sonar 7 is ready. Please dont ask a price for bug fixes. I dont want to be a guinea pig for trying out new versions and dont want to be a beta tester for new versions.

I hope the cakewalk will give us the bug fixes seperately as upgrade 5.3

Thanks

KMA

ORIGINAL: brendantownsend
From the absence of response it looks like Cakewalk don't want to elaborate upon bug-fixes.

I first asked about this weeks ago, and then again five days ago. If paying customers can't get a heads-up on bug-fixes in new (sold) releases, then I doubt there'll be much support for customers not wishing to lay more money on the table. I'm waiting for an answer but it currently looks as though bug-sufferers are on their own.

Have patience. You can be sure that lots of bugs have been fixed in SONAR 6. And a few new ones added in there too . I would think that a whole load more have been fixed since the final release version of SONAR 6, and are just waiting to be released in a new 6.01 patch. And some poor programmer somewhere will have the miserable task of back-porting some of those bug fixes to SONAR 5, to keep people like you happy. But I wouldn't expect Cakewalk to make loud announcements like 79 bugs fixed in SONAR 6 as this is tantamount to admitting that SONAR 5 was bug-ridden. So wait for the early adopters to post their findings in the next few weeks and you will soon know what has been fixed and what hasn't.

Carl,

I received my Sonar Producer 5 upgrade a few days ago that I purchased from directly Cakewalk to get the free upgrade to Sonar 6, order number WEB0076849. I just took it out of the box to install it. I find no serial number? What's the deal with that?

Thanks.
Clay

ORIGINAL: lahatte

Carl,

I received my Sonar Producer 5 upgrade a few days ago that I purchased from directly Cakewalk to get the free upgrade to Sonar 6, order number WEB0076849. I just took it out of the box to install it. I find no serial number? What's the deal with that?

Thanks.
Clay

Same with me - I didnt get the email that my ISP blocked
Call them - they'll hook you right up with the S/N

and can I guess that I'll have my free upgrade to Sonar6 by my birthday ?

Hi. I posted earlier regarding the free update offered to customers from PE 5 to 6. I asked why it's not available to Australian customers who have just bought the product in August. Apparently the free upgrade is only available if you buy it from the Cakewalk website...so I've just ordered the upgrade ($259 plus #16.50 shipping) from Intelliware here in Australia. Still, it would be supportive to have such freebies available to customers in all parts of the world; I mean where's the equality here? Also, what's with 'contact us'? I have sent 2 emails requesting information - I've tried to order/download SFZ Soundfont and my credit cards aren't being acknowledged and I've not had this problem ever with other software purchases in other parts of the world - and no response...this is over a week. Pretty poor response for such a large organisation...however I'm getting the ads for Sonar 6 coming through...2 with the same details mind you.

Come on Cakewalk, what's the points of offering bonuses to customers if 'some' of your customers are being ostracised in the process? And 'contact us' shouldn't be about 'we'll get back to you...umm, maybe someday when we have the time'.

Sorry this is not in reply to Bermuda.

Hi KMA.

Stating the obvious, overall stability depends on your hardware, configuration, drivers, applications, running processes, etc...etc... in combination.

There are so many variables that it's quite impossible to comment on a "one-fits all" solution, and regarding Sonar and the OS there will be many (like myself) who have dedicated DAWs running XP32 very reliably. I put my dedicated DAW system together earlier this year and following some early fine-tuning it has been as reliable as hell, never missing a beat - apart from the predictable (known) issues like Sonar hanging with a memory payload in the order of 1.5GHz.

Is your DAW a dedicated music system or do you have other applications installed? I'm guessing that it may have something to do with XP trying to allocate resources in a different fashion to Windows 2000, and if this were true then running processes need to be considered. On top of that there are so many other things that could cause certain types of problems, so I'm only blindly speculating without knowing your hardware or configuration.

Clearly you'll not want to revert to XP as your system is working well for you now, though I'm sure there's many experienced home-studio buffs who would be able to help you through trouble patches should you wish to switch back in the future.

Sonar has had its bugs alright, but as they say... "Better the devil you know..."


Best wishes,

Brendan.