SONAR 2017.08 is Now Available!

This month’s release for SONAR Artist, Professional, and Platinum brings new features along with fixes & enhancements to many key elements of SONAR. 
 
New Features 
 
The Start Screen is an important part of SONAR, in this update we have continued to refine it by making the project creation process more straightforward with new templates, we are now displaying Demo Projects when installed, and with the Discover tab you be able to more easily find news about Cakewalk and SONAR. 
 
The New Discover Tab 
(Artist, Professional, and Platinum)
 
The Start Screen will now display new notifications through the Discover Tab. In this tab you’ll see news about Cakewalk and SONAR, new Expansion Packs, free content from our 30th Anniversary Celebration and be able to find all the latest issues of Tech+Music.
 
New Demo Projects
(Artist, Professional, and Platinum)
 
When the Demo Projects installer is installed onto the computer, the Start Screen will now display a Demo Projects tab. The Demo Projects installer will be available for all versions of SONAR including SONAR Artist, Professional, and Platinum. The Demo projects are a great way to get started with SONAR for first time users but can also be used to experiment with new features. We’ll be continuing to add new news as well as periodically refresh them with new content. 
 
Start Screen Improvements
 (Artist, Professional, and Platinum)
 
Using Ctrl+N or Ctrl+O, it is now possible to create a new project from the Start Screen as well as open an existing project. Clicking the New Project tab will now display templates and in this update we have streamlined the templates that are installed. New users will now see 6 templates installed for each version of SONAR; Empty Project, Basic, 4-Track, 16-Track, Guitar Amps, and Vocals.
To remove older templates, you can navigate to the Cakewalk Content folder and select your version and open the Project Templates folder.
 

 
Simplified Help Menu
(Artist, Professional, and Platinum)

The help menu in SONAR previously had many many things in there and could sometimes be confusing to navigate. We have simplified this greatly and made the menu much more straightforward. 
 
Fixes and Enhancements
(Platinum, Professional, and Artist)
 
General

• Paste Special did not respect Destination Track in some situations during Paste
• Creating FX Chains previously not add parameters to a control unless it was added twice

Stability

• Dithering to 24-bit when exporting FLAC previously could cause unexpected crackles in the exported file
• Resolved an issue where SONAR may crash on OMF Export

Track View

• Drag reordering a bus would was off by 1 when moved to a new position
• Editing minimized Track View clips was previously difficult to slip-edit/crop on the right edge

Piano Roll View

• The Transform Tool no longer bounces clips together when doing velocity changes
• The Transform button now reflects Hard or Soft mode in the button when switching
• The Transform Tool’s Mask mode will now respond to Hard and Soft mode when Drawing through the Transform box
• Transform Tool now responds correctly when “Show Velocity on Selected Notes Only” is selected
• Transform Tool did not display preview correctly in certain conditions

 
Important note for customers who participated in Early Access:
The build number did not change from Early Access to Public release but there are some important content changes to the installer. Unfortunately you won't be able to update using C3. Please use our website and download the latest version.
 
SONAR Platinum = SONAR_Platinum_Setup_23.8.0.30(Rebuild_2).exe
 
SONAR Professional = SONAR_Professional_Setup_23.8.0.30(Rebuild_3).exe
 
SONAR Artist = SONAR_Artist_Setup_23.8.0.30(Rebuild_3).exe
 

What's with the extremely w-i-d-e email? Holy crap! Designing them for 4K screens now?
 
KEv

Normal on mine too
I had the early access version.  I just rolled back to the 07 version, deleted the early access version on disc.  Then started the update and it downloaded the current version.

Still no news for addictive drums issue? :)

I got the "you don't have any products" message after the install. It just required a restart of Command Centre and all was ok.

fireberd
Normal on mine too
I had the early access version.  I just rolled back to the 07 version, deleted the early access version on disc.  Then started the update and it downloaded the current version.

I think the EA version IS the new version.  Mine, after check for updates, went green...so 
that means it's current.

cclarry

fireberd
Normal on mine too
I had the early access version.  I just rolled back to the 07 version, deleted the early access version on disc.  Then started the update and it downloaded the current version.

I think the EA version IS the new version.  Mine, after check for updates, went green...so 
that means it's current.

Note that at the end of his announcement, Lance specifically mentions for EA people to manually download the rebuild as it contains "important" content not in the EA release.

Im guessing the demo projects? ...but maybe TH3 stuff as well with the 30th Anniversary release this month?

I just manually ran the rebuild installer and will now re-run c3 to see what it reports and possibly get the ca-x stuff too?

Few nice things but as always after new update work to back to my own already set things. 
 
Preferences changed view from advanced to basic.
My basic template has been overwritten and I got unusable thing instead what I have set.
 
Also workflow regression at start screen. Before I could just click new project and got my basic template loaded. Now need additionally pick from list and then give a name...
 
Annoying...
 
But nothing compares to deletion of my own basic template... Something what no program should ever do without confirmation... It seems I have lost my shortcuts as well...

Good catch . . .
 
What is the deal with that?  I checked and Rasure is indeed correct . . . Why 200+ Mb smaller?
 
Syphus

Lance Riley [Cakewalk]
 {snip}
Important note for customers who participated in Early Access:
The build number did not change from Early Access to Public release but there are some important content changes to the installer. Unfortunately you won't be able to update using C3. Please use our website and download the latest version.
 
SONAR Platinum = SONAR_Platinum_Setup_23.8.0.30(Rebuild_2).exe
 
SONAR Professional = SONAR_Professional_Setup_23.8.0.30(Rebuild_3).exe
 
SONAR Artist = SONAR_Artist_Setup_23.8.0.30(Rebuild_3).exe

Lance, 
 
My account shows the following downloads...

 
I assume the product that I have arrowed is the one to download (EDIT: When you download it the filename includes the text Rebuild_2). However, there is also "core plugins" update just above it which is dated the same. Do I need to download this as well?
 
Typical, the first time I try out the Early Access build in ages and the proper upgrade turns out to be a manual fudge!

Noynekker just go to your store account click on My Products and then your version of SONAR it will lead you to the download area.

promidi

Syphus
Good catch . . .
 What is the deal with that?  I checked and Rasure is indeed correct . . . Why 200+ Mb smaller?
 

This is because the Boutique Suite no longer contains Cakewalk TH3.  Cakewalk TH3 is now contained in the core Sonar installation package, which, coincidently is 200mb larger.

weird

Just wondering if, for those of us on Early Access this month, instead of downloading and manually installing, we can roll back to the previous version, delete the EA installer file and then update normally, just to keep everything in sync? Or maybe there's no difference...