This month’s release for SONAR Platinum, Professional, and Artist brings new features to the Piano Roll view and introduces MIDI Bluetooth Support using the new UWP MIDI Engine. This release also contains additional fixes & enhancements to many key elements of SONAR.

New Features

Piano Roll View Enhancements
Cakewalk reaches back to its MIDI sequencing roots to optimize SONAR’s core MIDI editing for today’s generation of virtual instruments. The SONAR 2017.03 update addresses modern MIDI music production needs through a redesign of the Piano Roll View (PRV) Track Pane and the Controller Pane. From efficient, simple controller editing to clean and focused MIDI track selection, SONAR has transformed MIDI editing from tedious to transparent.
 
You can now click any MIDI track to bring that data into focus, while Auto Lock prevents you from accidentally editing MIDI data from other tracks. Color-coding relates tracks to data for easy identification in complex projects. The re-designed Track Pane displays twice as many tracks in the same amount of space as before, and now allows you to take advantage of SONAR’s unique Smart Swipe feature that lets you select, mute, solo, or arm multiple tracks with a single, quick gesture.
 

UWP MIDI Engine & Bluetooth MIDI Support
Microsoft have introduced a new API standard for using MIDI on Windows as part of the Universal Windows Platform architecture. With this comes many new advantages including Bluetooth MIDI support and Multi-Client access to MIDI ports. UWP MIDI provides a modern way to communicate with MIDI devices and can be extended to support newer MIDI protocols/interfaces. To enable this in SONAR go to, Preferences | MIDI | Playback and Recording and set the MIDI driver mode to UWP
 

Fixes and Enhancements

• Double-clicking a track could fail to maximize strip height in some situations
• Track view no longer flickers when reordering tracks in large projects
• Adjusting Take lanes height longer allows the Edit Filter to overlap other controls
• Excluded synths no longer show in Instruments plug-in lists 
• SONAR no longer disappears behind other programs when switching Lenses
• Help will now correctly launch from Preferences | MIDI | Playback & Recording
• Exporting as Raw Tracks - No Automation/FX now preserves the Comp on an audio track
• New updates to SONAR no longer revert the theme to Tungsten after installing
• Fixed a possible crash when dragging a MIDI clip to Matrix in localized versions of SONAR
• The power indicator for a FX Bin will now stay in sync with the Frozen/Unfrozen state of a track
• VST3 plug-ins now display correctly in the registered Plug-ins list in Plug-in Manager
• Aim Assist now displays correctly when using the arrow keys to scroll in the PRV
• The mouse position no longer displays only in the PRV when Aim Assist is turned off

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Thank you to everyone who checked out the Early Access version this month and reported issues. It's much appreciated and greatly helps us put out stable versions for the community.

thx 

Great job on the PRV, definitely more streamlined. 

Yes!

Appreciating the new enhancements!

Even the new shading in the PRV is helpful. Amazing how much little things can help!

Thanks Bakers! ...and extra thanks for keeping the note names in PRV too!

Oh damn. Just saw the email and my heart fluttered in joy. I hope this is the long awaited revamp we've been waiting for that finally gives Sonar the edge in midi editing! :D

Very excited to have a PRV update!
 
Probably a stupid question, but in the new PRV is there a way to display all notes of all tracks other than yellow-highlighting the little pencil/track number box?  
 
In doing it the 'yellow highlight all' way, when I select a different MIDI track via clicking on a note in the PRV, it doesn't automatically select/jump to/highlight that track in the track pane or the main track window... which is VERY handy in a large template.
 
Am I just missing something in a setting?

Biscuits
Very excited to have a PRV update!
Probably a stupid question, but in the new PRV is there a way to display all notes of all tracks other than yellow-highlighting the little pencil/track number box?  
In doing it the 'yellow highlight all' way, when I select a different MIDI track via clicking on a note in the PRV, it doesn't automatically select/jump to/highlight that track in the track pane or the main track window... which is VERY handy in a large template.
Am I just missing something in a setting?

Hey Scott,
 
You can double click on the track number to set all tracks as visible in the PRV. As far as clicking notes in the PRV, You might be running into a known issue that came up right before release. If you select all tracks using the double click behavior in the new Track pane, click notes from another track no longer moves the focus to that track. For now if you click the tracks name all tracks will stay visible and it will shift the focus to the track of your choice. We should have this fixed in the next update. Glad you are enjoying the newest changes and we hope to have more PRV enhancements in the future.

Thanks Lance!
 
Just to be clear, is double clicking the track number the only way to view all notes, and therefore clicking notes on another track will never change the track focus in the PRV (for now)?
 
If so I'll have to roll back to the previous version unfortunately, as I'm running over 200 MIDI tracks in my template so it's just not workable this way... but otherwise I really like the new PRV layout so I'm glad it's being worked on - looking forward to being able to update to the new version!

I don't know if it was in this release or one of the previous releases, but Sonar no longer blocks my audio from other programs when it is running. Previously, I would have to shut Sonar down to listen to a YouTube video.

VST3 instruments missing in latest update except Rapture Pro and Z3TA+2. C:\program files\common files\vst3 is in preferences, have pushed reset and rescan button (ticked rescan failed and existing plugins). I have also checked plugin manager.
Audio VST3 plugins are fine. Worked in previous update. Does anybody have this?