scook
 
No part of LANDR's product is installed without your consent. The part you are seeing is the registry entry developed by Cakewalk to call a Cakewalk utility to integrate LANDR. This part of the process is similar to the other 3rd party encoders included with Cakewalk, just a little more visible.

i found with the previous official update, the march release, (which i only installed on my test pc because they said landr was optional and separate now) that as well as the menu entry it also installed the landr .exe in the cakewalk shared utilities folder. to me that certainly is installing a part of landr, all be it just an exe (if one can say just an .exe, virus delivery and all that) . it is still installed on my computer by cakewalk/sonar whichever way you cut it. i am not updating my main daw pc past manchester, and won't be updating my test machine which i installed the march update on past where it is now. but then sonar isn't my main daw so it's ok. still when they say you have the choice to install landr or not and that no part of landr will be installed that's how it should be, sonar certainly did install the landr .exe on my machine, if they say it is not going to then it should do exactly that. it's easy to delete the .exe and remove the menu entry, but that isn't the point.

rtucker55
Are the installs going to continue to put the LANDR mastering entry in the utility menu every time I update?
 
I DO NOT WANT LANDR. I DO NOT WANT THE LANDR ENTRY IN THE UTILITY MENU. YES, I'M YELLING BECAUSE I AM PISSED OFF.
 
No matter what I have tried, verbose, manual install of Sonar only, it continues to install that damn LANDR entry in the utility menu every time then I have to go back and figure out how to get rid of it.
 
This is a big deal to me and I hope to get an answer, not an excuse as to why it is OK and won't hurt anything.
 
 

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skitch_84
I'm sinking a lot of money into building a new PC this weekend. Since I'm using it solely for music production, I was told that I really didn't need to worry too much about what graphics card I put in it, as long as it could support two monitors. This talk about the new plugins' GUIs not displaying properly on some people's systems has me a bit worried now. I'm getting a used 560 Ti from a friend. Will that card be okay for anything Sonar throws at it?

If you buying a reasonable mboard and CPU you won't need the graphics card.  Most mboards have the capacity for 3 monitor support these days. An extra you simply don't need for a music machine!!

The Grim

rtucker55
Are the installs going to continue to put the LANDR mastering entry in the utility menu every time I update?
 
I DO NOT WANT LANDR. I DO NOT WANT THE LANDR ENTRY IN THE UTILITY MENU. YES, I'M YELLING BECAUSE I AM PISSED OFF.
 
No matter what I have tried, verbose, manual install of Sonar only, it continues to install that damn LANDR entry in the utility menu every time then I have to go back and figure out how to get rid of it.
 
This is a big deal to me and I hope to get an answer, not an excuse as to why it is OK and won't hurt anything.
 
 

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I have no interest in LandR, but honestly could not give a rats **** what menu it sits in, unnoticed and unloved, whilst my life and workflow continue on blissfully unaffected.
 
That File>save as on the other hand gets me mad!!
 
You doth protest too much, methinks:)

you can think what you like, i might think you are just a fanboi? so what?
 
and as i said above it is more than just the menu entry it is the .exe in shared utilities, which may not bother some, but let me ask, would you be happy having people just dropping/installing .exe's on your system? forget it is cakewalk, just say it was some random. plus it is said it was seperate install and has been said no landr stuff would be installed without your consiously doing it

The Grim
you can think what you like, i might think you are just a fanboi? so what?
 
and as i said above it is more than just the menu entry it is the .exe in shared utilities, which may not bother some, but let me ask, would you be happy having people just dropping/installing .exe's on your system? forget it is cakewalk, just say it was some random. plus it is said it was seperate install and has been said no landr stuff would be installed without your consiously doing it

But it's not 'some random' - it's a trusted software provider with a long history of doing the right thing by their users. The number of .exe's installed by windows that sit dormant on your system unless you choose to access a particular feature is almost unfathomable. Why worry about this particular one?
 
Fanboi makes me feel 20 years younger. Thanks for that!

skitch_84
I'm sinking a lot of money into building a new PC this weekend. Since I'm using it solely for music production, I was told that I really didn't need to worry too much about what graphics card I put in it, as long as it could support two monitors. This talk about the new plugins' GUIs not displaying properly on some people's systems has me a bit worried now. I'm getting a used 560 Ti from a friend. Will that card be okay for anything Sonar throws at it?

I've got a measly GT610 based NVidia card and it displays the Linear EQ and Multiband fine, so you don't need a powerful card, just one with (half-decent?) drivers.

Hello the two mastering plugins delivered with the lastest 04-2016 Platinum's version don't work: they tremble like sheep without screening anything understandable.
The laptop where I tried this new version is a very recent Lenovo Core I7 with OpenGL 4.4.0 NVIDIA 345.20.
Is there a solution or do you have to update this delivery?
I use the forum because I get an error on the email form support either.
Best wishes
 
Edited: solved with support by updating the driver and going into the Geforce panel to add Sonar to the list of apps that use the NVIDIA graphics processor.

MacFurse

skitch_84
I'm sinking a lot of money into building a new PC this weekend. Since I'm using it solely for music production, I was told that I really didn't need to worry too much about what graphics card I put in it, as long as it could support two monitors. This talk about the new plugins' GUIs not displaying properly on some people's systems has me a bit worried now. I'm getting a used 560 Ti from a friend. Will that card be okay for anything Sonar throws at it?

If you buying a reasonable mboard and CPU you won't need the graphics card.  Most mboards have the capacity for 3 monitor support these days. An extra you simply don't need for a music machine!!

KPerry

skitch_84
I'm sinking a lot of money into building a new PC this weekend. Since I'm using it solely for music production, I was told that I really didn't need to worry too much about what graphics card I put in it, as long as it could support two monitors. This talk about the new plugins' GUIs not displaying properly on some people's systems has me a bit worried now. I'm getting a used 560 Ti from a friend. Will that card be okay for anything Sonar throws at it?

I've got a measly GT610 based NVidia card and it displays the Linear EQ and Multiband fine, so you don't need a powerful card, just one with (half-decent?) drivers.

Thanks for the reassurance, guys!

Thanks for keeping the excellent updates coming!  I came here as a Reason user coming in, but SONAR has won me over and in no small part due to this community and the continuing reach for excellence by Cakewalk.