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  • Noel's Blog Post on Enhancements and Bug Fixes Is Now Online!
2015/02/08 15:52:24
Anderton
Go to the Cakewalk Blog to read Noel's article about the "under the hood" improvements to SONAR. There are a lot of ones I hadn't picked up on yet, and frankly, there were some cool aspects of Mix Recall that I completely overlooked.
 
There's also a list of 120 or so of the more significant bug fixes. Some of these are minor, like graphics anomaly fixes, while some are pretty major.
 
Well worth reading if you want to know what makes SONAR 2015 a considerable improvement over X3e and why this rollout has been so well-received by people who actually have the program. I'm still waiting for my first freeze/crash/hiccup. I hope I have a very long wait 
 
This list does not include some additional bug fixes that occurred just before the 2015 version's official release (e.g., the Melodyne fix), and I don't think it includes the ones that will be rolled into the monthly update (for example, Noel fixed the Kontakt-with-non-English-OS bug).
2015/02/08 15:56:15
BobF
Thanks for the heads up
2015/02/08 17:15:21
200bpm
Looks very legit.  Why does the blog say "making Music on PC or MAC".  Do they have a Mac version coming?
2015/02/08 17:15:31
YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson
Yo CRAIG
 
Are you not on a plane, in a car, going somewhere, and this is Sunday.
 
Are you like a work-a-holic?
2015/02/08 17:21:03
Splat
200bpm
Looks very legit.  Why does the blog say "making Music on PC or MAC".  Do they have a Mac version coming?



Cakewalk does make software for the Mac. Not Sonar. No fries with it either...
2015/02/08 17:21:55
Leadfoot
Thanks for letting us know, Craig!
2015/02/08 17:26:46
FCCfirstclass
Thanks Craig. 
2015/02/08 17:30:46
Anderton
200bpm
Looks very legit.  Why does the blog say "making Music on PC or MAC".  Do they have a Mac version coming?



I wish! Sorry, no...this refers to the iOS products as well as the cross-platform instruments like Rapture and effects like the CA-2A. I do tell people that one of the best Windows machines is a Mac running Boot Camp, but Cakewalk doesn't like me to talk about that because they don't want to have to deal with SONAR tech support on a Mac - like how people can access their Mac data under Boot Camp (they can't, they have to use something like Parallels).
 
I really doubt that SONAR will ever appear on the Mac...it's been in deep with Windows for so long I think there's probably no turning back. Whenever I ask Andrew Rossa about a Mac version he says "there are no plans at this time," but I don't think the "at this time" is a dodge that means there's something planned for the future. I think there really are no plans.
2015/02/08 17:35:21
Anderton
YouDontHasToCallMeJohnson
Yo CRAIG
 
Are you not on a plane, in a car, going somewhere, and this is Sunday.
 
Are you like a work-a-holic?



The line between things I have to do and things I like to do blurred a long time ago   A lot of people have been wanting what Noel posted, so it became a priority.
2015/02/08 17:56:29
John
I went over the list and its rather stunning.  I did know as many do some of the major things in Sonar 2015 but there is so much more. Even having the program I'm still stunned by the depth CW went into do bring this Sonar to us.  
 
This is a must read even if you don't have Sonar 2015 yet. Now all we need is the PDF user manual.
I'm betting its 2000 pages.
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