• SONAR
  • Sonar Platinum 2016 Early Access program 09 (p.4)
2016/09/25 07:26:09
siordanescu
Hi friends! After 2016.09 early acces update, my melodyne essential shows 4.04 version. Is that ok??
2016/09/25 08:07:47
promidi
siordanescu
Hi friends! After 2016.09 early acces update, my melodyne essential shows 4.04 version. Is that ok??



That is the current latest version of Melodyne essential. I am going to periodically check http://celemony.com/ for an update because the Sonar Online Documentation mentions Melodyne essential 4.1.  I am sure that Celemony will be releasing 4.1 any time now.

Hopefully that will happen by the time 2016.09 is made public - remember this is still early release.
2016/09/25 08:25:16
siordanescu
I understand....Thanks!
2016/09/25 08:27:25
Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
outland144k
Here's a strange thing: with load balancing enabled, the first thread is getting very little of the load, but the seven remaining threads are looking pretty even in handling the remainder. Thoughts?
 
Originally, the first thread was running about 20% higher than the remaining seven threads. All told, I thought this was pretty even, but now, the load seems to be avoiding the first thread.



In Load balancing mode if you are using the "audio processing load" cpu metering mode, the per core meters only tell only a part of the story so you can't take it too literally. Every core is indeed being used for processing. We may try and improve the display accuracy but it got very complex to represent with the new model where now every FX rack is potentially being load balanced.
 
If you want an accurate picture of what is going on from the OS point of view, watch the CPU metering mode (right click on the meters) to show the system load. In that mode keep in mind that it shows the use of your cores for ALL concurrent processes on your PC not just SONAR. Arguably that is a better metric to watch since it tells you exactly how the cores are utilized globally.
2016/09/25 11:08:56
AntManB
Does the fact that the load balancing is optional imply that there may be some circumstances/hardware where it is best left disabled?  If so, when?
 
AMB
 
2016/09/25 11:30:00
stickman393
AntManB
Does the fact that the load balancing is optional imply that there may be some circumstances/hardware where it is best left disabled?  If so, when?
 
AMB
 




Not necessarily. My guess is that this is so that, if a detrimental bug is found in the new load balancing logic, there's an easy fall-back to the previous, well-tested code without having to rollback to a previous version of SONAR.
2016/09/25 11:46:38
brundlefly
gustabo
Even though not listed as a fix, the scroll bug has been fixed, yeah!!!
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Fixed-in-201609-CWBRN53625-Scroll-bug-201605-through-201608-m3440690.aspx
 


It is listed, actually:
  • Clicking rapidly in the scroll bar did not always advance the timeline.
 
2016/09/25 11:58:53
gustabo
brundlefly
gustabo
Even though not listed as a fix, the scroll bug has been fixed, yeah!!!
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Fixed-in-201609-CWBRN53625-Scroll-bug-201605-through-201608-m3440690.aspx
 


It is listed, actually:
  • Clicking rapidly in the scroll bar did not always advance the timeline.
 


Missed that, thanks!
 
2016/09/25 14:11:37
CL2Zero
promidi
ArcRex
I have to play around with this a bit, but so far for me the load balancing might be the greatest change in Sonar since Platinum came out.


Don't forget, you have to enable it in preferences.  It's not turned on by default.




Where would one find this in preferences?
I have installed the Early Release but cannot find anywhere in Preferences to enable.
 
 
EDIT: I finally found it.
2016/09/25 14:19:49
Zargg
CL2Zero
promidi
ArcRex
I have to play around with this a bit, but so far for me the load balancing might be the greatest change in Sonar since Platinum came out.


Don't forget, you have to enable it in preferences.  It's not turned on by default.




Where would one find this in preferences?
I have installed the Early Release but cannot find anywhere in Preferences to enable.


Hi. Not in front of my DAW at the moment, but IIRC it is under Preferences Audio, Playback and Recording.
All the best.
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