This month’s SONAR’s 2017.01 release for SONAR Platinum, Professional, and Artist brings fixes & enhancements to many key elements of SONAR as well as new Matrix View enhancements, multiple enhancements to Rapture Session and a new option in SONAR to Chase MIDI notes.
 
The SONAR 2017.01 update is now available via Command Center. To download the update visit Command Center and click the Check Now button in settings or the My Products page for your account.
 
New Features
MIDI Note Chase
You can now start playback from the middle of a MIDI note and the note event will trigger and sustain for the remainder of its duration. You no longer need to start playback before the note start time in order to trigger the note.
 
Matrix view enhancements
Matrix view cells are now editable using the Step Sequencer or the Loop Construction view. Editing a cell is easy, simply double-click on the cell to open it.
 
Rapture Session 2.0.5
Rapture Session continues to evolve in update 2.0.5 and offers several new features including, the new Poly Synth instrument page and 50 new sounds to go with it. There are also many new fixes & enhancements to the plug-in as well.
 
Fixes & Enhancements
This months update features many stability related fixes and as well as enhancements to the Audio Engine, Editing, Step Sequencer Clips, The Matrix view, Lenses, Plug-in Manager, Control Surfaces, and Project Handling. For a full list of the bug fixes and more information about the new features list our website. Rolling Updates: SONAR 2017.01 Learn More: SONAR 2017.01  

MIDI Note Chase - this is great.  Thanks.

Loving MIDI note chase!

Ditto....   a long-wanted feature here!
 

I still have yellow lights in CCC. Have the bakers forgotten something? Has to do with plugins and synth's.

Which ACT mapping XML file gets corrupted when more than one control surface is connected?
I had 2 controllers working but then one of them (Nanokontrol 2) stopped working last week: the W checkbox cannot be ticked.
I was hoping this update would fix this.

Where's the ezine?

Notecrusher
Where's the ezine?

http://forum.cakewalk.com/Discontinuing-the-EZine-for-2017-m3553763.aspx
 

Note Chaise is great (when I try it)- been suffering with long 8 measures notes needed for the drum loops to be triggered.
 
The Plug-in Manager is still acting out. Also it does not stop while scanning random plugins, it hangs for few seconds every few seconds and it stops entire graphic interface. The track continues to play. So if you adjusting a volume, for example, everything will stop for a second and then jumps right where you would be if it did not stop. The pronlem with it is that I have 800 plugins (According to the Plug-in Manager). It takes about 10-15 minutes to scan them all and it freezes the graphics every 2-3 seconds.

Charlie2008
Which ACT mapping XML file gets corrupted when more than one control surface is connected?
I had 2 controllers working but then one of them (Nanokontrol 2) stopped working last week: the W checkbox cannot be ticked.
I was hoping this update would fix this.

For what it's worth, I had the same problem with nanoKontrol2 a little while ago after a Windows 10 update.  I had to uninstall and reinstall the KORG driver and it started working again.  Don't know if the cause applies here, but the solution may be worth a try.