Lexington now available !
 

Anderton

Midiboy

Anderton
 
Actually, SONAR's mouse wheel behavior comes very close to doing that:
 
1. Hover mouse over a fader - you get a rough adjustment.
2. Hover mouse over a value while holding shift - each mouse wheel click changes the fader value by 0.1 dB.

Um...wow.  THANKS for that.  I LOVE it. 

 
Glad you like it! The issue often isn't that SONAR can't do something...the issue is finding out how to do it. That's the same for all deep software, though. Not sure what the solution is, other than amassing experience. 
 

Yes, this a great tip, BUT ... having to situate for two-handed use in a corner station with a guitar ...
Separate targets for the mouse wheel for course and fine would be ideal.
 
 

IMHO Sonar is by far the best DAW for Windows. Every update has been great and this one is awesome. Sonar has greatly improved throughout the course of this year. Sign me up for another year of updates.

Marcus Curtis
 Sign me up for another year of updates.

That reminds me. Since this is about to be the first time most will renew their 12-mo. agreement, what is the proper way to renew, and can this be done by either purchasing the upgrade again through a 3rd-Party re-seller, or is there a "right" link on Cakewalk's site? I maybe have missed this info.

aidanodr
Im just curious.
 
Im on Windows 8.1 pro / Platinum. Same issue has occurred with both Kingston and Lexington updates. During installation either from the command center or from the update file downloaded from my account I get a FINISHING UPDATE message and when I look inside the task manager I see process failed.
 
However when I force close this Sonar opens fine with the new update applied.
 
Just wondering why this is and should I be concerned??
 

You should submit a ticket for this.  

I just deleted 30GB of files from the Cakewalk/Downloads folder. I've been getting Corrupted download errors more and more lately. Deleting all these files helped. It probably means I can't revert installed versions, but it stopped the errors for me.

Is nobody here who using and External Insert plug-in function?
This is very useful function and my favorite.
 
But when External Insert loaded on bus channel, it shows some problems (such as bus solo function issue, lost some midi note when playing issue...etc)
 
As I know, Cakewalk Tech Team already knows about this issue.
I would like to request fixing it on future update.
 

(SOLVED)
My transport is recording and playing back twice as fast in Lexington.  The counter in the control bar is counting seconds at a 2:1 ratio. Is there something I should check?
 
I should add that I changed nothing by way of settings in Kingston prior to upgrading, and X3e is still working fine.
 
Update: It seems the Lexington update reverted my sampling rate to 44.1khz. In previous versions, such as X3, if I tried playback or recording in mismatched sampling rates, I'd get an error saying the DAW couldn't open the record device. I no longer see that error in this latest version, and the recording will commence at the wrong sampling rate (like faster ips), skewing the time-stamp in the Control bar. I believe people should be aware of this potential frustration of tracking at the wrong "speed". Had I not seen this, I would have been upset. 
 
Feature Request: If the sampling rate or bit rate is mismatched from the expected or source clock/bit rate, turn the Control Bar time display orange.

I seem to be having one issue with the "Added support for VST2 to VST3 plug-in migration for instruments" feature.  I have a few projects that are using Sampletank3 VST2, since early on the VST3 version was causing crashes in Sonar Platinum so I removed it and just used the VST2 version.  But that was nine months ago and the current Sonar and Sampletank3 VST3 seem to get along, so now I have both versions enabled. 
 
If I have the option "Replace VST2 Plug-ins When Option Projects" checked and I open one of those old projects everything loads and the Sampletank3 instances are now the VST3 version, but it doesn't play any sounds.  To "fix" it I had to open it's gui and fiddle with it (I think I just pressed some keys on it's virtual keyboard).  If I turn the Replace option off and load the project, Sampletank3 loads as a VST2 and everything works just fine.
 
I also had to increase the ASIO buffer size on my (old) Focusrite Saffire from 4.5ms to 6.0ms in order to fix some new glitching on playback, which kind of surprised me since the same projects played back just fine in Kingston at the more aggressive setting.  That's the third release in a row where I've had to increase my latency to fix playback problems.  I really wish there was some sort of way for Sonar to test a buffer size setting and tell me if it will playback without glitches at that setting.  This trial and error approach is not fun.

statusquofan
 Since updated to Lexingston Sonar crashes every time after a while on playback.
 
BTW, the startup  windows now appears earlier, but loading a project needs too much time (no difference between Ipswich, Kingston or Lexington).
 
Update:
After rolling back to Kingston all works fine. No more crashes.

I get the above too.

I guess this got fixed this morning?
 
I downloaded the update from my account online...
I moved the file into the command center downloads folder as usual
When I started command center and clicked the update button, it started downloading the file all over again so I stopped it (not download hours)
 
Inspecting the file as well as the partial file now downloaded as well, I see that the filename of the first says update10 with the Lexington build number...
 
And the new file attempted to download is correctly named 11...
 
So I took a chance at fixing the name on the full file and CC used it and all appears properly updated...
 
Anyone else run into this?
 
 

Keni
I guess this got fixed this morning?
 
I downloaded the update from my account online...
I moved the file into the command center downloads folder as usual
When I started command center and clicked the update button, it started downloading the file all over again so I stopped it (not download hours)
 
Inspecting the file as well as the partial file now downloaded as well, I see that the filename of the first says update10 with the Lexington build number...
 
And the new file attempted to download is correctly named 11...
 
So I took a chance at fixing the name on the full file and CC used it and all appears properly updated...
 
Anyone else run into this?
 
 

Yeah I downloaded from my account, then installed CCC, (going to reinstall Platinum just to have a look to see if my end date has changed after purchasing a further 12 months in the goobler sale) after placing the downloaded files in CCC's download folder and firing up CCC I noticed it wanted to download Platinum again, I just let it go. After that the end date hadn't changed yet anyway, perhaps it will just kick in at or about the roll over date.
 
[Edit] Just checked the file in my account, it is still the same as the one I downloaded yesterday Sonar Platinum 21.11.0.25, so I don't know why CCC didn't like the one I put in its downloads folder and ignored it and downloaded it again, but anyway . . . 
[Edit 2]
Oh I see what you mean,
SONAR_Platinum_UP10_Setup_21.11.0.25.exe and
SONAR_Platinum_UP11_Setup_21.11.0.25.exe

I also have always just ignored it without any issues. It has always worked fine for me, and I can recall discussions regarding the vary fact that it is quite ok, and that quite a few people do just that. Your mileage may vary, but I'll continue doing it the way I have always done, and that is to just to ignore the pop up message.

Just installed it's all right
The strange thing is that kingston had not a great performance impact in my sistem but lexington.......boom......fast load prj,light cpu,smooth move clips,this update is like a FERRARI!!
Many thanks to the bakers and merry christmas at all!!!!!!