I love the step sequencer and the all the new plugins + easy sidechaining.

ORIGINAL: Gerry

What's a Mac apart from a raincoat?

Too true!

As for those white boxes wiht apple logos, they've always scared me because they look like there will jump out a teddybear or a dolphin any minute!

Your hard work is appreciated, but sadly I still see no improvements to Staff View and the ability to print professional scores. C'mon, how difficult can it be to code in support for Coda, Intelligent Repeats, and Alternate Endings, and improved Tuplets. Customizable, non-standard key signatures would be nice as well, for instance the ability to create a key with A, E, and F sharps (A#,B,C,D,E#,F#,G).

I think I'm going to have to skip this upgrade and spend the money on Finale Allegro instead.

Thanks,
Joe

What does the "integerated step sequencer" mean in implementation. Does it replace Session Drummer 1 in the sense that one can have a drum track running in the background either with or without looping/recording, synced in tempo to the (recording) audio track (eliminating copy/paste MIDI measures?

That is, is it an intelligent click track (among other things)? I'm not exactly how it works (I can already program a MIDI measure and copy/paste it)?

There's a video and description on this page which I believe may help.

All the best,

Brendan.

Did they finally fix the audio gap problem?

I just found the video and immediately ordered it. Thanks,

Chuck

ORIGINAL: brendantownsend

What does the "integerated step sequencer" mean in implementation. Does it replace Session Drummer 1 in the sense that one can have a drum track running in the background either with or without looping/recording, synced in tempo to the (recording) audio track (eliminating copy/paste MIDI measures?

That is, is it an intelligent click track (among other things)? I'm not exactly how it works (I can already program a MIDI measure and copy/paste it)?

There's a video and description on this page which I believe may help.

All the best,

Brendan.

ORIGINAL: NewJazzSyndicate

I'm suprised more people aren't jumping for joy over the external effects plug-in feature.... I know it's THE selling point for me... no more "work-arounds" with routing things from a channel, over to a bus, then back to a different channel.... We can finally route the signal as it's supposed to be, without all the "work-around" clutter...

Thank You Cakewalk!!!

Sincerely,
Karsten J. Chikuri

Amen... can't wait to use my outboard gear as 'plug-ins'!

ORIGINAL: enharmonic

No response to my inquiry about CAL.

Am I the only one who thinks this is important?

Anyone have any info about whether CAL is still supported in Sonar 7?

thanks!

Sorry your question got left behind in the rush.

CAL's still there.

I found sonar 6 was the best with the most.
I did the 5-6PE buy last year just before 6 came out
and have never looked back. 64bit now, xp pro

I don't use a lot of midi as all of my recording is
with the instruments that I play. (sonar 7s main upgrade from what I see)

I have the key boards connected with midi but I cant see
getting sonar 7 for just a few enhancements.

(besides I still haven't mastered the audio-snap and ACT controls)
or synths....or.......
and from the list below I have lots to play with, ... to master some of them,
thats a challenge.

Ubgrade to Sonar 7, Naa Ill wait till they can say Sonar Pro we have all the tools

wow. is there any other DAW that is so aggressively and routinely updated like Sonar? it's absolutely amazing.

Well - it looks like I'll probably be upgrading my system in the near future...

On my main DAW - a custom-built Mid-Tower system with a Pentium 4 2.4 ghz, 1 gb of RAM, 2 200 GB hard drives, and a MOTU 2408 mk II... I can't get through the demo song ("Room for Clarity") without the system dropping out.... I can get through if I bypass all the plug-ins... or if I jack the latency way up ( 21.3 ms).

I tried it on my laptop system, which is fairly new - a Celeron M 1.87 ghz, 512 mb of RAM, 1 80 gb SATA internal drive and a 300gb external USB 2.0 drive, and a Fast Track Pro USB 2.0 audio/midi interface....

If I run the project off the internal drive - it'll dropout fairly quickly... with the external drive, I can get all the way through without a dropout.

I can run the same project in Sonar 6 and the high track count and effects don't seem to pose a problem - as it will play the project through. The performance hit in Sonar 7 is just enough to send my system over the edge when running this demo project.... which, admittedly, does contain quite a few more tracks and simultaneous plug-ins than I would probably encounter in the majority of my projects.

So -- I'm wondering... Should I start looking at dual or quad core???

Sincerely,
Karsten J. Chikuri

There's a lot of good stuff in there - but, sob - why is'nt there any updates to the score editor?
The staff view is older than some of the users in here - don't think it has been altered since Cakewalk 8 ( maybe its even older? ).

Is'nt it time to bring the staff view into this century?

Cakewalks customer service sucks. I ordered my upgrade to Sonar 7 about 10 days ago. I have a serial and registration number but no product.
I have e-mailed them numerous times and all I get is the standard - check back with our website message.
I tried calling them twice - each time I was on hold for over two hours and then got hung up on.

If this is how they treat a paying customer - next time I'm going to think twice before sending them any of my money.

but did you had the sonar 5 ou 6 ??? i 'm in france and i can buy the update only on line....

tks

regards

ok..sorry i'did not see your signature. i'm a new member..... so it's possible. i ll do that just right now ! hope i'll dont have any problem like digitaleagle!

ORIGINAL: NewJazzSyndicate

1) Print all the softsynth tracks as audio... then delete the soft synths from the SynthRack...
Karsten J. Chikuri

Instead, you really just need to freeze the tracks. This will automatically convert them to audio and disconnect the synths from the audio engine.

Also, raising latency during mixdown is actually the correct thing to do because it allows more effects/synth plug-ins to be used. Don't be afraid to raise it to 100ms or even higher if you need it.

Scott

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