Hi. I have had the SS active since day one. But in the beginning, I usually just clicked Ctrl+O/N instead because it was so slow. But these days I use it more or less exclusively. It has become part of my workflow (if I were to say I had any).
All the best.

Hi (first post - new here),
 
I've tested Sonar Artist (demo), Steam Edition (demo) and Professional (demo) and, everytime, I realized that even after closing the Cakewalk Start Screen (selecting a recent project or simply closing the window), the respective process keeps running on Windows (see image).
Actually, I realized that the Start Screen opens three processes in Windows, but closes only one.
Is it a bug?
 
1 - Before closing Start Screen
 

 
2 - After closing Start Screen (two processes remain)
 

 
Thx

cleberschniedger
Actually, I realized that the Start Screen opens three processes in Windows, but closes only one.
Is it a bug?

In my SPlat all 3 are killed once Sonar is closed.
 
I have switch it on, reasonably fast now. Thanks Craig

cleberschniedger
Actually, I realized that the Start Screen opens three processes in Windows, but closes only one.
Is it a bug?

Maybe the process has to remain active in case you want to open the Start Screen again for another project?
 

 
That's weird.  On my system there is no start screen process running with Sonar open on a project.  If I select Start Screen in the File menu two processes appear.  If I close the start screen without doing anyhting, or open an existing project, one process remains until I do anything at all in Sonar at which point it also disappears.  If I create a new project in the start screen, both processes go away immediately along with the start screen (which suits me just fine).
 

Anderton
Another feature that I've really come to like is being able to create a test project without having to name it, create a folder, etc. and then when I'm done, it goes away. 

 
You've always been able to do this with CTRL-N. It's how I start all of my projects, because in the beginning I'm not even sure they're going to become projects unless I get a decent groove going 
 
I have tons of projects in my project folder, many of them just scratch pads or simple ideas that I've vowed to expand upon later, and this is why I love the pinned projects so much. I got tired of opening that file dialog and scrolling through a long list of project folders to find the ones I was working on, and in fact before the pinned projects feature came about I was thinking about putting all of my most regularly worked-upon projects in a separate folder. No need to do that any more. 

Resurrecting this because I use Start Screen regularly. 
 Is there is a limit to how many projects will show on the Start Screen?
 
I ask because my latest project is not showing up...

I have used it from the start. If I need more I will revert back to the open from the file menu. I even have it on my custom module as a button. 

I just noticed that the Start Screen will display icons or as a list.
The list view had severeral more entries than my icon view (which was static at 25).
I then pinned a project in the list view.  The first few times I toggled back and forth between views there were no changes.  I then exited out and back in to Sonar and my icon view of Start Screen now has 33 showing. 
 
Not a big deal, but nice to know I haven't come up against a hard limit on the Start Screen.

I don't understand what it does beyond what is available from the File menu.  I save a new file name iteration every once in a while (incrementing an appended numeral), and the Start Screen is just as populated by various old versions as the recent files list - if I pin a version, then the new iteration is un-pinned, making a bother.  I start new unnamed projects with Ctrl-N, start new named projects from the File menu, start existing projects from Windows Explorer.
 
Now I'm thinking about what I would like to see when I start Sonar "bare".
 
One cool thing would be an instantly available recording mode.  Ideally it automatically would be set to record any inputs (and outputs) which have any level, so that if I want to record something I'm playing or listening to I can do so easily.
 
It would be cool to see a skeleton of Preferences - plugin managment, audio settings, updates available, elements from the File menu (without the start screen's pictures).  "Quick tips" are OK.  Everything would have to show up immediately, though, as the only reason to have it display automatically on start is to save time / attention.
 
I'd like to see basic audio settings (like the Record bit depth, which always seems to be getting reset to 16) prominently displayed on startup.  That kind of thing used to show up in a status bar.
 
It's not necessarily part of the Start Screen, but to help when starting new projects, it would be great to see a rebuilt template creator since it's kind of unwieldy the way it's operated under the "save as" dialog now.