Helpful ReplySONAR 8.5: The Fine Print

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
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Excuse the wierd formatting. I havent quite figured out how to get a word doc into a forum post properly.

Noel:  like many others here have said, this Fine Print doc is some of THE best technical literature we've seen yet, and I too was convinced I wanted the upgrade to 8.5 PE after reading this.  I've got  my 8.5 pkg already and am doing some drive clean-up and optimizing before loading. 
Question (and why I quoted this remark of yours), I bet a lot of us would love to get a nice clean print of your doc here, but everything I've tried only grabs other junk from the forum page, skews the format, etc.  Any way you can post us your doc or PDF format of it, in a link where we can print it out cleanly?  This is something I want to refer to as a referrence for a long time, especially the technical threads on the 64-bit sections.  I can already see I'm heading for a new i7 or i9 64-bit Win 7 hardware platform upgrade in the next year and am following this thread very eagerly!  
Thanks so much for all the tons of work you've obviously put into this.     -John  

I didn't understand any of it...but that is why I use the product without problems...and without having to think about those things...because I'm just a dumb musician...and you guys are the geniuses.  Talk about an upgrade from my TEAC 4 trk...and the Commodore 64.  A gift from the gods.

Cool...A reason to load Win7 x64.  I just bought the 8.5 Upgrade from SHS 7 XL on special for less than a C-Note, can't wait til it arrives.  I haven't really scractched more than the surface of Home Studio, but HS was always just an incremental step for me, I've wanted to get the pro software ever since I got SHS 6.0 thrown in with a soundcard I bought.
 
So now the Terabyte drive that has been sitting unformatted in my PC since I installed will get a brand spankin' new install of Win7 x64 and Sonar 8.5 64bit...
 
The last time I worked with Sonar 64, it was Sonar 6 HS, and the bit-bridge tech didn't seem to work out so well for me...everybody seems to be happy with it as it is now.  We'll see how WusikStation 5 handles it.
 
 

That was very informative, thanks alot! I now feel "Geeky".

..I read so many post's about it that this is a pre to 9 ect..I guess not so I'm Dling it .. 

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 I wouldn't worry about it. With many effects it can add up.

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Kind of off and on the point--I haven't been to the store in ages and trying to find out how to purchase 8.5 upgrade from Sonar 6 (long story.) I can't find Sonar 8.5 in the store only X1. Is X1 Sonar 10 for lack of a better explanation and I should just purchase that instead or should I get 8.5 and X1? If there is a tremendous learning curve for X1 I would rather get 8.5 first.
But, I can't find the upgrade page to 8.5 from Sonar 6.
Thanks

IMHO, get 8.5 (then upgrade if you want to stick with Cake) if you can. X1a Has a learning curve for sure (although not bad), and can be buggy( bakers got more baking to do on that one). 8.5.3 has been wonderful on my system.

This may not get answered and may not be in the right place but heres a stupid Question I bought Sonar 8 in May, all is good I was thinking agbout an upgrade X1 won't run on this computer and I'm not ready for a major upgrade.. I would like to upgrade to 8.5 I noticed in the Online stor that there is a free upgrade for people who bought Sonar 8 after July so... Why?... can't I.... I should of waited 5 more weeks before buying 8 to be eligable for the Free up grade doesn't seem right to me

Thank you so much Noel. Its a very great informative.

Reported ^^^^

I'm running Sonar 8.5.3 and am looking for the Wave Profiler to bring in new ASIO drivers for the Soundscape MX4 card I want to stream to.
They are currently greyed out, but apparently registering, however there is no Wave Profiler button where the manual said it was supposed to be,
which is at the bottom of the page under OPTIONS-Audio-General.  THere's a space where it would fit nicely, but no Wave Profiler.  
Any reason for this?  BTW, it's also that way in Sonar X1.
 

The Wave profiler is not used with the ASIO driver mode. If you are already running in ASIO mode and have another device selected, you must deselect both the input and output of the other device before the Soundscape will be available. The ASIO specification requires that only one device is active at a time.

OK, that worked!  Thanks