This update brings you a renovated Start Screen, along with a new family of templates so you can get started recording or songwriting faster. And it’s not just about starting projects, but also finishing them—courtesy of six mastering FX chains from Dan Gonzalez. It also features a nice bit of bug fixes.
 
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Open Command Center, then download the core SONAR Artist, Professional, or Platinum category. If an update doesn't appear immediately, click the gear icon (settings) and click "Check Now."
 
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Hiya, Bill.
 
I'll be the arse to ask it. Can we disable the new Startscreen from hunting for new notifications? If so how? Doesn't seem to be in the Ezine.
 
I guess if that is not (currently possible) can we get a description of how and when it searches for such notifications?
 
Everything else looks fine and for me the new start screen will be an improvement over the old one.
 
Cheers and sorry to be a poop.

Each time it opens, the Start Screen says "Hey Cakewalk, any news?" and displays said news and a "Quick Tip." We do send your serial number to know what news applies to you. Nothing weird or noteworthy happens here. If you are not connected to the internet, these won't be shown. Besides that, there is no way to prevent this without disabling the Start Screen completely.
 
Fwiw, we won't drench you in notifications. At most you might see a new one weekly. Once you click to view it once, the little indicator will go away. 

Thanks, Bill. I very much appreciate that (seriously that is exactly the info I needed).
 
I'll leave it at that after suggesting that an option be added that can disable (or suspend until activated with a convenient button) the call out for notifications without disabling the entire startscreen.
 
It really does all look useful though. Nicely done.
 
Cheers.

Hello, Bill,
 
thank you for the Hopkinton update! ;-) Unfortunately, one apparent bug has come through: the new Start Screen doesn't support UTF, therefore, my older projects with non-ASCII characters in their names are shown with question marks and - more importantly - they cannot be even opened from the Start Screen due to the bad representation of the non-ASCII characters. The error message says: "C:\Cakewalk\Projects\Brouk%EF%BF%BDn%EF%BF%BD.cwp was not found." However, the mentioned file is really there and it can be opened in the original way (by means of the File menu).
 
Best regards,
Miloslav
 

Congrats guys - diggin the new start screen

Excellent! Thanks Bill and Cakewalk.

Ha! - Audio enhancements next month instead maybe. Relieved (more testing hopefully). Congrats on release.

The new update do not show up in my command center?

Similar CCC update issues happened last month, hoped it would be fixed :( :( Seems more than one person effected again...

Log out/log on. Go to settings in CCC and hit update.