POW-R Dithering is missing in Bandlab Sonar

Just noticed.

meng
Hey guys, I know there's been a few threads/posts back and forth on this. It was correct that this was something originally not planned to be included in CbB because it wasn't really viable as a 3rd party algorithm.

But I realise this is workflow related and something that doesn't just stick around if you've had a previous version of SONAR. The last thing we want is to have to create another step in the workflow.

Thanks to the unbelievable way people have supported us via the Tip Jar and some ongoing conversations we've had - we've discussed this internally and I'm 90% confident we'll have it all sorted and back in the next update to CbB. Will keep you updated and apologies for the inconvenience in the meantime if it is a feature that is important to you.

The fact you'd even talk about this here shows how seriously you take the users.
I'm not one for whom this is a huge issue, as I'm a composer,
(not a studio engineer who's constantly rendering projects in different formats)
but I had one thought. You previously mentioned about people who have their Cakewalk accounts linked to their Bandlab account with the same email having extra features. Well, all those people have technically paid for POW-R licenses when they purchased Sonar, so you could just enable it for previous Sonar users only,
while newbies downloading it for the first time will not have it in their version, cause they haven't paid for it.
The only problem is technically you have to make two different builds of the DAW, one with it and one without.

I don't know how you plan to figure out this issue which only affects a minority of users,
but I think it's amazing that you care this much!

meng
We've discussed this internally and I'm 90% confident we'll have it all sorted and back in the next update to CbB. Will keep you updated and apologies for the inconvenience in the meantime if it is a feature that is important to you.

Great! Many, many thanks, Meng!
 

Daibhidh
... I don't know how you plan to figure out this issue which only affects a minority of users, ...

Minority: This is your opinion only, I don't know if that is really the case!
 
Regards Marc

I think this and the other 3rd party features will likely return, it's just that Bandlab has to have formal agreements with those manufacturers before they can go public, since the current contract is with "Cakewalk Inc." It'sone of those things the lawyers and bean counters have to hammer out first. Remember, it's only been 5 months since the Gibson-induced Cakewalk Coma.

scook
amazing

Indeed!!

bitflipper
Geoff, are you an Ozone user? 

 
I'm not an Ozone user and I realize the dither choice at 24 bit doesn't matter. Still, I like the idea of using the shaped dither just because. :-)
 
I'm not sure this is something that's really important to me. By this I mean, I'm not sure that Bandlab should use their limited resources on dither.
 
To tell the truth, you know what I'd gladly pay for is all the codecs so that the video stuff would work like it used to. The video stuff has no codecs and windows doesn't come with them and so the video functionality is compromised.
 
I don't feel safe downloading some codec pack from bittorrent. I want to just pay for them, but I don't know what to buy.
 
Am I stealing my own thread?

Back with Windows 7, they were included with Windows, I think. When Windows went to a free version, like Sonar removing dither, Windows removed codecs.
 
These are screenshots I took in 2016, but I think they are still relevant. 
 
At the time, I think I was told to go buy some kind of video editor, but I never knew which one and as I really just wanted codecs it was a hard thing to shop for. They don't say 'includes the codecs you want, Switz.' in the adverts.
 
It used to be the videos I would upload could be played back at high def, but now 240 seems the highest they go.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMaDVdXxC4M
 

 
 

fwiw,
for all the years i've used sonar,
i've never used it's dither.
 
i always have used the dither in Waves L2.
 
there are good options.

Thanks Meng, hope you can sort out the return of POW-R dither options, they're important to me :-)
Cheers - Cliff

Are CbB files backwards compatible with Splat? If so could you not just save your project in CbB and the open it up in Splat and dither down? Possible workaround until BL can figure how to add it back in.

Cheers,

jayson

Yeah...

I'm mixing in CbB and mastering in Splat... no pain.

...but it would add occassional convenience if there was a way to add these dithering algorythms to CbB.