I'm updating Windows 8.1 now
 
will try to get:
1. All selected tracks to switch from Waveform view to Automation...and then back.
2. I will try to bounce out all tracks through master bus to create a stereo mixdown and see if it will sound like all the original tracks.
 
this will happen in 24-48 hours. thanks - bruce
 

All windows 8.1 updates installed on 8-2-16
just tried switching all selected tracks from waveforms to automation view and back.
still not working.
Suggestions?
 
 

Not sure about what view switching you are trying to do. I only look at automation as needed by opening the automation lanes. However, as for bouncing, Edit->Select->None. Then, File->Export Audio. In the dialog, select "What you hear". 
 
Regards,
Dan

bgl1
All windows 8.1 updates installed on 8-2-16
just tried switching all selected tracks from waveforms to automation view and back.
still not working.
Suggestions?
 
 

Bruce,
 
How did you attempt to do this in Sonar Platinum?
 

select all track, hold the control button down, change the edit filter to automation.
reverse the process to go back to wave form.
 
PS- you need automation edits to be done to see them in the track.
this is a no brainer but its worth mentioning.

I go back and forth a lot between clips view and automation view
As I often did in ProTools 10
I do not use LANES as the take up to much screen real estate. I prefer to go back and forth.
 
As for Mixdown, if I bounce the entire mix through through the stereo buss and use BOUNCE TO TRACKS, it sounds as though some of the soft synths are playing the wrong presets. Everything sounds fine before the BOUNCE.
My workaround was to Bounce each SUB-FADER separately, then mix all the SUBS. The tracks all sounded fine but I should not have to perform this extra mix or extra step.
 
I will NOW uninstall all Cakewalk Sonar Platinum and Reinstall ALL Cakewalk Sonar Platinum to see if that works.
 
 

ChuckeBaby:
Doesn't work. Now to do a complete uninstall and a complete reinstall

Why are you doing that,, there's nothing wrong with your copy of Sonar.. You are just having trouble figuring out how things work. It won't change by re installing.. Sounds like your expecting Sonar to behave like Pro Tools. That never works with any DAW. 
 
There's no automation "view" Automation is either hidden or open below the track. You toggle it. 
 
And you don't bounce to track to make a stereo wave file of the song... you "export" your mix. Sonar defaults to this when you choose Export audio. Only thing you might need to change is the bit depth from 32 to 16 if your going to burn a CD from it. 
 
You can use select all or select none, I find select none before exporting always works for me. 

Sorry Cactus Music. Not True.
You change the automation/clips view by selecting whichever tracks you want and holding [CONTROL] while you mouse to one track's edit filter and switch it from clips to automation or visa-versa. it's in the manual.
 
You do not need to use LANES to see automation.

Cactus Music:
Wrong again. It's right there on their website:
https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR%20X3&language=3&help=Mixing.45.html
Bouncing tracks
The Track view Tracks > Bounce to Track(s) command lets you combine one or more audio tracks into a submix. A submix can be a mono track, a stereo track or several mono tracks that contain the mixture of the original tracks, preserving the volume, pan, and effects for each track. If you’re bouncing tracks that are routed to a surround bus (SONAR Producer only), you can bounce them to as many mono tracks as you have surround channels, by choosing the Split Mono option in the Channel Format field of the Bounce to Tracks dialog box, and also choosing a surround bus in the Source Category field. After their creation, the submix tracks are just like any other tracks—you can edit them, add effects, copy them to another project, etc. The original, unmixed audio tracks are not deleted, so you can archive them and recover them later, or continue using them as before.