The 8.3 patch came out and now the forum members can stop ranting--well, about the patch not being out yet anyway...

So after a few months interning at a mastering house with a pretty nice B room that includes a slew of vintage outboard gear (API 550as, LA2A, 1176, Distressor, Fairchild, Neve etc). One problem, Pro Tools w/ a 192!!

So after a bunch of recording on the PT rig, mixing, and a LOT of working around the flaws of the system I was a bit fed up.
Asides from that, I have decided that mastering isn't my thing and that I would much rather be at home in my own studio recording and mixing. Foolish? Perhaps, but it makes me happy.

However, that means I can come home back to Sonar! I was using 7, but I had 8 waiting in the CD case waiting until a few fixes were made and people seemed generally happy with it. No more ADC issues, plug-in restrictions, macs, computer processing power issues, using their UAD-1 card (I have a UAD-2 and it is great), and no more damn DAE ERRORS!!!!!!

Anyways, I'm pretty happy to be going back to Sonar. I knew what I had, but I didn't think I'd miss it THIS much.

I produced a record with my partner R1CKONE under my production company, AristoTrax, called Lil Rockstarz. It's 18 rock song covers, some classics, lots of new hits with kids singing on it. Its a kid crowd vocal, no adults, so the kids get all the glory hehe.

Anyway, the record was produced with sonar, starting on version 7 and finalized after I started using sonar 8.

It is going nation wide! The commercial is airing all day on Nickelodean. Just wanted to share some good news involving sonar!
Im starting on Lil Rockstarz 2 record soon!

We recorded the vocals at a Ameraycan and Paramount recording Studios, and the pro tools guys there were really impressed with the tracks, so of course I mentioned doing all the work in sonar... ;)

Also, one othere thing, using their neve/UA audio, Neumans and all didnt really impress me as I honestly get great sound out of my studio as well. We wanted to bring the kids to a studio for hire though as they hace games and a good waiting room and lots of space and engineers to work with etc. so it made it fun for them an easy on us! lol

Comes out March 31 in Target, Walmart, and Best Buy-

www.lilrockstarz.com



Cheers, Lance

I just got my x64 guitar rig rolling and I'm so! happy!

V(-_-)V

Above is me making a peace sign!

:)

G

One of my private Sonar Students who used to use other DAW's
but now uses Sonar exclusively signed a major publishing deal with
universal 80/20 split in his favor. He is writing songs for international
Broadway Shows and Acclaimed Artists. And Some of the studios where
he took his tracks to be mixed and mastered now tell him they sound
excellent as they are - Sonar The way forward

I finally got Sonar Producer (Was having issues with Vers. 7, so last night I downloaded vers. 8) to get ALL of my VST's (And DXi's) working - I am just using the trial version, the full upgrade is arriving FedEX on Tuesday. Life is grand - the only downside was I had to install the 32-bit version. Just wondering if I am going to have to de-install the trial when the full version arrives. I been working on this for 2 weeks and 2 days - the forums have been a great help to me, now I get to pass on some wisdom - woot woot.

Cool Lou. I've seen that show several times.

Using Sonar since version 7 , because it was less expensive then the cube.....Now the cube had to drop its price way down.
Folks found out about the superb audioquality of Sonar over all others !
I will never go back to Cubase ! And I am realy happy to get such an awesome sound out of my PC!!!!

THANK YOU CAKEWALK - I hOPE I can someday afford to builsd several churches in your honour!

BOOyaa¨H!


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Here's my good news:

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1718834

Recent good news from my perspective has been the release of Sonar 8 / 8.3 which has dramatically reduced the number of mysterious dropouts and crashes. I've been able to up my track count and haven't experienced a dropout in months.

Oh yeah the greatest thing about sonar 8 the ability to load some many programs and have the cpu barely budge..
The Last prodject I did was about 40 tracks with i would say 30 plugins opened up and none of them were evened bounced,, my cpu is only at 27 % SWEET>>>
on 7 I would of had to bounce a bunch and waste time.. and when I want to change something I had to un archive em , what a pain ,, no more..

I've attempted to download Sonar Pro update 8.3. Your site says page not available; i've tried this on two different days. Perhaps I don't need to download this as I am currently running version 8.3.0.376. Is there a later update?

Also, I wasn't able to report bugs in the bugs email section. Wanted to make someone aware that the console view is buggy in 8.3. I am using ALPHATRACK and when I am in console view and use ALPHATRACK to scroll to a fader past the divider, in either direction, the view stops scrolling. This happens when I use either the trk rotary or the track arrow buttons on the alphatrack.

In addition, theconsole view display doesn't refresh correctly after scrolling using alphatrack. In other words, when I use the horizonal scroll bar to bring the hidden track into view the track number and controller numbers don't coincide when using two controllers. E.G. there are five tracks total, four tracks are visible, and one is hidden past the divider(the divider at the beginning of buss section). When I use the horizontal slider to scroll over to bring track five into view; the WAI is incorrect. wrong controller color is shown. However, if I move the divider to the right, the correct WAI contoller color is revealed.

Also, when pushing buttons on the Alpha controller to activate RECORD, MUTE, SOLO, etc. another function button is activated. E.G. using Alphatrack to activate mute on track 2 will also activate the step Sequencer button. The Step sequencer doesn't actually popup, but the display changes the stepsequencer button from off to on.

Final observance, The buss button doesn't display correctly when first opening the console view. E.G. the Buss section will be showing on screen, but the actual button that shows the buss section is no lit on screen. This goes away after the BUSS view button is pressed on the virtual button on screen.

POSSIBLE NEW FEATURE
Visually show the signal path in the console view. So if the send is pre fader, the send pot literally appear before the fader on screen. Perhaps this could be done by having another small window appear showing the actual live signal path for each channel. The trim would appear at the bottom, the eq next, or dynamics processor depending if this is pre or post eq. meter would be shown either pre or post fader. I under stand that there is an actual signal path diagram, but what I am referring to is an actual live representation of each channel. So in the quick signal path window, you would see channel one showing the send 1 pre fader and channel two showing send 1 post fader. each actually displaying in the actual order of the signal path. Now a person could visually see where the signal path is going for each channel live. This would provide quick visual feedback and would be a feature the copitiaon doesn't have. Something to further enhance Sonar.

I'm guessing that your team is already aware of these issue, but it doesn't hurt to send a reminder.

Best regards,
Leo

I started using cakewalk as far back as Professional 7 and apart from Professional 8, I have upgraded every upgrade to the present Sonar 8. Can I have a Mars Bar please? I use Sonar because it is very user friendly, (We used to say, "Easy to use") and I find very stable for my needs.
www.petermorrisonmusic.com