If I may pose a burning question(possibly only relevant to me), could someone give me the whole skinny on the term bounce? I keep thinking basketball!
 
PS - as long as I am imposing, at what point in the  whole recording process do you convert the mono input tracks to stereo?

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 Platinum 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.
The Track view Tracks > Bounce to Track(s) command operates completely offline, meaning you can mix down
tracks that may be too complex for your machine to actually play in real time.
Here are some reasons to use Bounce to Track(s):
Your mix is so complex that real-time playback is impossible. Bounce to Track(s) produces the correct mix,
and store the result in a new track or tracks.
You require more CPU time for your real-time effects. With Bounce to Track(s) , you can premix some of your
tracks with real-time effects applied, saving CPU time during playback.
If you mix down to tracks that already have data, the new events are placed in the track, but do not overwrite
existing material.
To mix down (bounce) audio tracks
1. Set all volume, pan, effects, and automation settings just as you want them.
2. Select the tracks or clips you want to mix down.
3. If you are using effects on the tracks and want to mix the effects down at this time, select the whole length of
the longest track or clip plus an extra measure for the reverb or effects “tail.”
4. Click the Track view Tracks menu and choose Bounce to Track(s) to open the Bounce to Track(s) dialog
box.
 
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Silly question, but I have to ask... since I am not in a position to download the update yet, and see it firsthand at the moment. The Question: After watching the video about the Aux tracks, I am assuming that you can not only bus the track, but run the channel strip ( Quad Curve EQ, etc. ) as you would any track; yes?

Yes an aux track has exactly the same features as any other track.

Could trackmanager be made to discern between aux and audio tracks?
Feature request here:
http://forum.cakewalk.com...kmanager-m3304708.aspx

Not huge for me. Just upgraded to Win 10, Sonar worked beautifully with Ipswich. Update to Jamaica and experienced this weird timing issue on soft synths such as Zeta and Hyrbrid 3 and Xpand!2. In testing, and using the real time upscaling thing, made it even worse. So tried 'reset' and hung on one of my wave plug-ins. Have posted this elsewhere but why is this happening? I've have to roll back to Ipswich, where everything is working nicely but I want these updates which is all part of the deal. Sucks big-time!

Quick Question, and perhaps I didn't RTM, but how does the Echo function on an Aux work if it requires the source track Echo button to be enabled? I seem to only get both to Echo or neither. I'm wanting to use the Aux Echo only for playback without Echo-ing the source track. Thanks!

Well done Cakewalk! I love to see these type improvements brought to Sonar! Hopefully the MIDI routing will be improved as well in the future. This is my favorite Sonar Platinum update so far, and helps dramatically with making me VERY happy with my Sonar upgrade purchase. Routing and CPU efficiency are of the fundamentals, and the more one has of both the better IMV.

2:43AM

Doktor Avalanche
Is your first CPU core peaking?

I start a new blank project ("Normal" template), insert an instance of Virus Control (VC), enable the LIVE button as I have done for years up to this point, play a few notes and notice a lag...like a SUPER-MEGA lag of about 6-7 seconds!
 

I'm having a similar problem with Loom and Vacuum Pro, both 64 bit VST 2- extreme latency several seconds, but other plugins don't seem to be affected AFAIK eg Z3ta 2 , Rapture Pro and VirtualCZ don't have extreme latency issues.

Developer Folk:
Excellent Job on this release!  Best value hands down in the entire workstation industry!
 
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