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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/26 18:58:44 (permalink)
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If it is not recording sustain pedal at all check in the preferences under midi playback and recording to make sure that the to record controller is turned on.



HUZZUH! I found a solution!
 
First, thanks for the input everyone. The controllers were definitely on. It's was like Sonar saw the cc64 changes (as evidenced by the MIDI in/out monitor in the toolbar), but chose to ignore them.
 
I was working the problem with Synthmaster 2.7 - and as I was noodling with a pad, I could hear clicking when I pressed or released the sustain pedal.
 
I immediately loaded and switched to Serum. If you've never used Serum, apart from being sounding beautiful (if CPU heavy) it has a brilliant interface - you can see any changes that are happening. I loaded another pad in Serum...and lo...the sustain pedal now changed the resonance...yes, the little control knob was flipping back and forth. I opened up the ACT controller and there was the answer: the pedal was mapped as a switch (S7). W. T. H.?
 
I reloaded my keyboard profile (Akai MPK88) and voila...I have a sustain again.
 
Thanks for your patience and input everyone.
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/26 22:35:14 (permalink)
Hi Everyone SOMETHING IS VERY WRONG
 
Loaded my project which has loads and loads of tracks including Sylenth and the db meter sky rockets to maximum on sylenth and master ,
 
Reverting back to JP has fixed this problem > none of the previous updates every did this .
 
I uninstalled kingston re downloaded it and the same thing UNUSABLE For current project Major problems WITH VST Sylenth and who knows what else
 
ANYONE ELSE ?????
 
 
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/26 23:49:38 (permalink)
Yes, I've already read that Sylenth1 doesn't work in Kingston.
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 05:44:11 (permalink)
I've noticed Kingston spreads the workflow more evenly to different CPU's/threads with Steven Slate Digital plugins. They used to pile mostly on thread #0 earlier.
 
Am I just imagining things?
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 06:30:31 (permalink)
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I've noticed Kingston spreads the workflow more evenly to different CPU's/threads with Steven Slate Digital plugins. They used to pile mostly on thread #0 earlier.
 
Am I just imagining things?


Nope, check page #5 of the Kingston ezine release under "streaming" (I'd post a link, but I don't think it'd show since I haven't posted enough.) Along with the JP optimizations, the added ones in Kingston were bound to show a noticable improvement in lower CPU load and improved thread management.
post edited by JesDes - 2015/11/27 06:42:01
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 08:15:09 (permalink)
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Has anyone tried Sylenth1 with this yet? I get incredibly loud white noise in the left channel and heavily distorted playback in the right channel. I tried other VSTs, and those work fine. Very frustrating and unfortunate as I use Sylenth pretty regularly.


I have exactly the same problem yoosookim. I found the only work around to be record and edit the midi track for Sylenth as usual, then activate record on the Sylenth output and record the midi playback realtime. A bit slower than fastbounce but works perfectly. Pretty glad we recently got that feature as I too use Sylenth often.

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 11:42:54 (permalink)
It seems the biggest problems with updates occur with third-party plug-ins, especially when there's an upgrade to a new version of VST (as happened with Kingston). I remember when the rolling updates concept was first discussed, much of the talk about rollback revolved around making this easy because of the expectation that people would run into incompatibilities with certain plug-ins.
 
If you look at Apple, another company that essentially does rolling updates with iOS, you'll find that after the iOS update there are a flurry of updates from third-party apps running under iOS to maintain compatibility. Similarly, I think it was Noel who said in another post that plug-ins are a "moving target." I don't know enough about code to know why some plug-ins "break" while others don't, but at least any issues do seem to get resolved eventually.

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 13:01:00 (permalink)
A good friend of mine writes plugins. His take on the plugin problem is that often in the development cycles the programmer/devs come to a point where they can take a shortcut or do everything by the book. The ones who take a shortcut because "we don't use that," or "our users don't use that," often leave gaps in code - where the DAW is expecting one thing, the VST just tries to skip it. Consequences vary, but he says "the ghost in the machine" (unforseen, or unintended new issues/relationships in code) are always an issue - but good coding practice can avoid a myriad of problems.
 
Which makes me wonder if some of the Kingston optimizations weren't actually shortcuts that are now the root of unexpected problems. By which I mean, the shortcuts/optimizations in Kingston may be perfectly good...now we're just being introduced to otherwise dormant shortcuts the VST devs took. *shrug*
 
I had some weirdness with Kingston, but I've now got it narrowed down to just one misbehaving plugin - the VST2 version makes noise, but the VST3 version is fine.
 
All that said, the speed increases are impressive. CW seems to be getting everything right...Kingston is hopefully just a minor bump in the road.
 
My only aggravation in all this is that CW drops a huge update the day before Thanksgiving, and then close shop for the long weekend. I wouldn't want to see their inboxes/trouble tickets/voicemails on Monday. ;-)
 
(And Happy Thanksgiving)
post edited by aghschwabe - 2015/11/27 13:14:27
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 13:27:49 (permalink)
This is what may be happening in some plugins not working scenarios.


In this order:
a) Before Ipswitch Sonar was not processing mono interleave correctly with VST3 plugins.
b) Various plugins had code to work around that issue (a), or somehow their code managed to bypass the problem.
c) Ipswitch fixes the mono interleave issue.
d) This breaks plugins that had that workaround code (b).

Now plugins need to be fixed to strip out that workaround code (b).
OR maybe there is a regression bug with (c). Who knows... Cakewalk can confirm.
 
I mention mono-interleave because cakewalk has mentioned that before as a possible problem.
 
Cheers...
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 14:39:43 (permalink)
For some reason I have an old version of VST scan in the Kingston download package. In JP it was 5.9.0.40 but with Kingston it has changed to 5.3.0, an older package. It seems to my tiny brain that this older scan version doesn't like Kingston. I just installed 1 new plug and the VST scan said 88 removed and 66 added. Nonsense.
 
Noel and co. know that something's going on and I'm sure that it will get sorted after the US holiday. FIve stars for the Cake crew because even at this time of family and celebration they've been sending me pm's about the issue and I can't ask for better care than that.

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 14:42:46 (permalink)
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For some reason I have an old version of VST scan in the Kingston download package. In JP it was 5.9.0.40 but with Kingston it has changed to 5.3.0, an older package. It seems to my tiny brain that this older scan version doesn't like Kingston. I just installed 1 new plug and the VST scan said 88 removed and 66 added. Nonsense.
 
Noel and co. know that something's going on and I'm sure that it will get sorted after the US holiday. FIve stars for the Cake crew because even at this time of family and celebration they've been sending me pm's about the issue and I can't ask for better care than that.



Even after scanning failed plugins I assume.
Forgive my ignorance - how do you find the "VST Scan" version number? Thanks.

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 15:08:09 (permalink)
Noel directed me to it. Program files\cakewalk\shared utilities bottom of the page. Click on the the file and check properties. There's a product version number with 3 digits and file version with 4 digits. The 4 digit number seems to be the important one. In JP it was 5.9.0.40 and in MY Kingston D/L it has reverted back to 5.3.0.0

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 15:15:40 (permalink)
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Noel directed me to it. Program files\cakewalk\shared utilities bottom of the page. Click on the the file and check properties. There's a product version number with 3 digits and file version with 4 digits. The 4 digit number seems to be the important one. In JP it was 5.9.0.40 and in MY Kingston D/L it has reverted back to 5.3.0.0



Thanks..
 
Well my VstScan.Exe is in a different file path (D:\Cakewalk Shared\Shared Utilities) because I moved the shared utilities folder elsewhere. Searched my hard drive for any other copies, this is the only one.
 
I show 5.3.0.0 with Kingston as well... So it looks like it didn't get packaged correctly... that could explain some of the plugin issues being reported here... No issues so far for me, but I guess that is down to good luck.
 
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 15:55:14 (permalink)
I'm leaving it to the professionals to sort out. No value in being the armchair quarterback for me.

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 17:26:59 (permalink)
Well, I've updated to Kingston and my VST Scan # is 5.4.1.0!! I've been having some new clicking issues with a couple of plugins-McDSP seems to be a culprit. Wonder if all this is related.
 
 
post edited by southpaw3473 - 2015/11/27 17:39:14

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 21:30:45 (permalink)
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Well, I've updated to Kingston and my VST Scan # is 5.4.1.0!! I've been having some new clicking issues with a couple of plugins-McDSP seems to be a culprit. Wonder if all this is related.

I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that's the correct number of the VST scan prg. I'm sure it will be clarified in a few days. As long as things are working I won't sweat the details .

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/27 22:14:12 (permalink)
Hmmm, I just checked the scanner briefly and the one in Kingston is 5.4.1.0, but the one in JP is 5.3.0.0 I have not rolled back enough to find a 5.9.0.40 version.
 
What is the creation date on that file you found? That is an easier way to find it, as it would have been compiled before that month's release.
 
5.3.0.0 = 10/13/2015
5.4.1.0 = 11/22/2015

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 04:03:53 (permalink) ☄ Helpfulby mettelus 2015/11/28 08:08:09
The proper VST scanner version for Kingston is 5.4.1.0. Its still somewhat mysterious how John got the older version on his system. We had a prior release candidate installer that had 5.4.0 but we didn't ship that version.
My best theory is that somehow John's machine got delivered a previous binary from Amazon and its stuck in a cache somewhere. Which country are you based in - it might be relevant from amazon's caching point of view? Its pretty hard to diagnose stuff like this over email so I think a support person will have to do more testing with him when work resumes on Monday.
The only problem with 5.4.0 was the first scan problem he ran into. After that it fixes it self up so its not a huge issue despite being disconcerting to see. The scan itself won't affect the operation of plugins.
 
 

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 04:36:07 (permalink)
Mine is also showing 5.3.0 (22/11/2015 4:04 PM). I have installed the update manually from my cakewalk account (SONAR_Platinum_UP10_Setup_21.10.0.30.002.exe 440,176,584 bytes)
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 08:08:29 (permalink)
5.3.0.0 in UK. And I did not update straight away. Then again I'm using a different file path as well (see above).

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 10:34:49 (permalink)
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It updated fine (and no problems with the update itself). Just borked audio on some plugs and my sustain pedal is out of commission...which is enough problems for one day. I've rolled back to the "J" update so I can get this project done (though manually inputting the sustain pedal is going to suck).
 
In other words: one problem at a time. ;-)
 
ps: for the time that I had Kingston installed, I definitely saw the improved speed...but it's not worth the cost of a reliably functioning DAW.


Maybe I'm in a mood but it's frustrating when people appear out of no where, with zero other posts, DON'T POST THEIR SYSTEM SPECS in their sig like we repeatedly encourage, and use vague language like "Just borked audio on some plugs" OY! Wastes good peoples time...
 
FWIW, I've had Iris2 for awhile but hadn't gotten round to installing it.  I just did, to check the crashing issue you posted about elsewhere.  First, I rolled back to "J" land, then installed Iris2 and all the additional content, added Iris2 to a song I'm working with, which has over 100 tracks of audio, synths, kontakt/falcon/omnisphere2 tracks, lot of Albion One... a song already beginning to stress my pretty robust system.   
 
I verified Iris worked fine...at least the vst3 version...I use vst3 whereever possible, and also wanted to test the bakers new vst3 work.   Iris itself was kinda boring but....  I saved the song, and reupdated to "K" land.  Brought up the song with the iris track... played fine.  Added another vst3 instance of iris.... recorded/played back fine...
 
Don't know if you're using vst3, but from here it works fine.
 
FWIW, if ur using vst2, try vst3.


Maybe they have only one post because how they use Splat has worked for there needs and now it doesn't just because the backers changed something and messed up something for therm. IMO!   

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 10:37:20 (permalink)
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Well, I've updated to Kingston and my VST Scan # is 5.4.1.0!! I've been having some new clicking issues with a couple of plugins-McDSP seems to be a culprit. Wonder if all this is related.

I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that's the correct number of the VST scan prg. I'm sure it will be clarified in a few days. As long as things are working I won't sweat the details .


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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 10:40:05 (permalink)
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It seems the biggest problems with updates occur with third-party plug-ins, especially when there's an upgrade to a new version of VST (as happened with Kingston). I remember when the rolling updates concept was first discussed, much of the talk about rollback revolved around making this easy because of the expectation that people would run into incompatibilities with certain plug-ins.
 
If you look at Apple, another company that essentially does rolling updates with iOS, you'll find that after the iOS update there are a flurry of updates from third-party apps running under iOS to maintain compatibility. Similarly, I think it was Noel who said in another post that plug-ins are a "moving target." I don't know enough about code to know why some plug-ins "break" while others don't, but at least any issues do seem to get resolved eventually.




So there are issues with this version!!! The bakers NEED to email the people that DON"T live here and let them know! BE4 they have to record someone and nothing is working and they loose a pile of cash! 
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 10:48:19 (permalink)
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So there are issues with this version!!! The bakers NEED to email the people that DON"T live here and let them know! BE4 they have to record someone and nothing is working and they loose a pile of cash! 



Professionals know to TEST new versions BEFORE they bring in clients for a session. Some even have separate systems specifically for testing such things before installing on their main rigs.
 
It's moot anyway because if you end up with a problem you just have to rollback to whatever version you were using before. It's not a big deal unless you go WAY out of your way to make it one.
 
But you know all that... and are just making a big deal out of it because... "reasons".
 
Good call trolling a stickie thread that's unlikely to get locked though.
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 11:26:08 (permalink)
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Professionals know to TEST new versions BEFORE they bring in clients for a session. Some even have separate systems specifically for testing such things before installing on their main rigs.
 
It's moot anyway because if you end up with a problem you just have to rollback to whatever version you were using before. It's not a big deal unless you go WAY out of your way to make it one.


I think 'pros' would prefer scheduled stability releases with regression soon after, so they know when to upgrade without beta testing. Rolling back is out of the frying pan into the fire quite often (without having to look for it). Classic example of this right now is the Z3TA+2 update. I wasted a few hours testing, adopted it as good and then found out via forums member that presets get garbled with existing projects. Now I (and probably most of us) need to dump it. So now I need to uninstall and install again Z3TA+2, the old version that suffers from stuck loops etc. This I suppose is entirely my fault?? I didn't test it properly as a beta tester? But if I knew a stability release was on it's way soon afterwards I might have not wasted my time. Regardless glad z3ta+2 is getting fixes thankyou cakewalk. Again stressing I'm not disagreeing with monthly release schedule.

...and I don't want to associate myself with Dave above until he makes calm points with evidence to back himself up. Prefer sensible discussions (well ever hopeful).
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 11:59:53 (permalink)
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Professionals know to TEST new versions BEFORE they bring in clients for a session. Some even have separate systems specifically for testing such things before installing on their main rigs.
 
It's moot anyway because if you end up with a problem you just have to rollback to whatever version you were using before. It's not a big deal unless you go WAY out of your way to make it one.


I think 'pros' would prefer scheduled stability releases with regression soon after, so they know when to upgrade without beta testing. Rolling back is out of the frying pan into the fire quite often (without having to look for it). Classic example of this right now is the Z3TA+2 update. I wasted a few hours testing, adopted it as good and then found out via forums member that presets get garbled with existing projects. Now I (and probably most of us) need to dump it. So now I need to uninstall and install again Z3TA+2, the old version that suffers from stuck loops etc. This I suppose is entirely my fault?? I didn't test it properly as a beta tester? But if I knew a stability release was on it's way soon afterwards I might have not wasted my time. Regardless glad z3ta+2 is getting fixes thankyou cakewalk. Again stressing I'm not disagreeing with monthly release schedule.

...and I don't want to associate myself with Dave above until he makes calm points with evidence to back himself up. Prefer sensible discussions (well ever hopeful).

I'm uploading a video of what I was able to record with only 2 other tracks used right now.
along with this statement :
Cakewalk Sonar Membership program.
You sign up for a FULL year of updates, patches and other stuff and at the end of the year you can pay again and keep what you have and get more updates, patches and free stuff OR you get to keep everything from the previous year NO STRINGS. Well into my Membership and it’s (for the most part) clean sailing! Now with the last update “Speedy SONAR Kingston” this is what I get recording 1 guitar track with 1 XLN drum track. Bounced or live MIDI. I have tried 16 bit 24 bit ASIO and MME 32 bit on two systems! All give the same results! The Audio is being smashed out of time.
My computer is well within system requirements when I joined the Membership program.
Is it really worth being in a Membership program if the software out grows a 6 month old system designed to work with Sonar Platinum that seems to now is obsolete?
IMO 
 
post edited by Dave000 - 2015/11/28 12:11:31

Hay look,
Somethings are not locked in stone... lol 3/18/2019
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 12:03:39 (permalink)
Dave000
I'm uploading a video what I was able to record with only 2 other tracks used right now.
along with this statement :Cakewalk Sonar Membership program.
You sign up for a FULL year of updates, patches and other stuff and at the end of the year you can pay again and keep what you have and get more updates, patches and free stuff OR you get to keep everything from the previous year NO STRINGS. Well into my Membership and it’s (for the most part) clean sailing! Now with the last update “Speedy SONAR Kingston” this is what I get recording 1 guitar track with 1 XLN drum track. Bounced or live MIDI. I have tried 16 bit 24 bit ASIO and MME 32 bit on two systems! All give the same results! The Audio is being smashed out of time.
My computer is well within system requirements when I joined the Membership program.
Is it really worth being in a Membership program if the software out grows a 6 month old system designed to work with Sonar Platinum that seems to now is obsolete?
IMO 
 


Dave please pull back your emotions, start a new thread. Explain the issue clearly with steps to repro. Avoiding ranting that's just not going to help you at all and in fact will simply reenforce the view here that all complaints are negative. Let's see if we can help you get to the bottom of this... If you are interested.

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 12:14:15 (permalink)
and let me also add that as a "Cakewalk Sonar Platinum Member" when I upgrade each month I expect things to be FIXED and not FLOPED! and to back grade to an older version would entitle me to the newer upgrade versions that work even after my 12 months is up! My last upgrade better work without NEW bug issues!  
 
Also as a member that makes me entitled to Comment on anything related to SPLAT here in this forum...  
I'm not bulling or attacking anyone.. I leave that to the peanut gallery!
 
And BTW.. I'm just a regular guy trying to record some songs and have some fun! But marketing ploys and gimmicks to keep people hooked are just not fair to anyone! 

Hay look,
Somethings are not locked in stone... lol 3/18/2019
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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 12:26:29 (permalink)
OK I tried. I'm afraid your approach here is going to get your nowhere and just reinforce polarised and charactatured viewpoints.

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Re: Speedy SONAR Kingston Update now available 2015/11/28 12:45:36 (permalink)
Dave000
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Professionals know to TEST new versions BEFORE they bring in clients for a session. Some even have separate systems specifically for testing such things before installing on their main rigs.

It's moot anyway because if you end up with a problem you just have to rollback to whatever version you were using before. It's not a big deal unless you go WAY out of your way to make it one.


I think 'pros' would prefer scheduled stability releases with regression soon after, so they know when to upgrade without beta testing. Rolling back is out of the frying pan into the fire quite often (without having to look for it). Classic example of this right now is the Z3TA+2 update. I wasted a few hours testing, adopted it as good and then found out via forums member that presets get garbled with existing projects. Now I (and probably most of us) need to dump it. So now I need to uninstall and install again Z3TA+2, the old version that suffers from stuck loops etc. This I suppose is entirely my fault?? I didn't test it properly as a beta tester? But if I knew a stability release was on it's way soon afterwards I might have not wasted my time. Regardless glad z3ta+2 is getting fixes thankyou cakewalk. Again stressing I'm not disagreeing with monthly release schedule.

...and I don't want to associate myself with Dave above until he makes calm points with evidence to back himself up. Prefer sensible discussions (well ever hopeful).

I'm uploading a video of what I was able to record with only 2 other tracks used right now.
along with this statement :
Cakewalk Sonar Membership program.
You sign up for a FULL year of updates, patches and other stuff and at the end of the year you can pay again and keep what you have and get more updates, patches and free stuff OR you get to keep everything from the previous year NO STRINGS. Well into my Membership and it’s (for the most part) clean sailing! Now with the last update “Speedy SONAR Kingston” this is what I get recording 1 guitar track with 1 XLN drum track. Bounced or live MIDI. I have tried 16 bit 24 bit ASIO and MME 32 bit on two systems! All give the same results! The Audio is being smashed out of time.
My computer is well within system requirements when I joined the Membership program.
Is it really worth being in a Membership program if the software out grows a 6 month old system designed to work with Sonar Platinum that seems to now is obsolete?
IMO 
 




Dave,
 
When you tried it on two different systems did you use the same audio interface device?
 
I've had issues like this in the past after an update. What ultimately resolved it for me was to uninstall my interface's device drivers, then reboot, then reinstall them, then reboot again. Also, immediately after uninstalling the device drivers, go to device manager, show the hidden drivers, then choose to uninstall any of your audio interface drivers that show up. Seems windows will keep older versions around that might gum up the works some. After that, reboot and reinstall the drivers. May not work for you but it's certainly worth a try.
 
As far as being upset, yeah, I get that, it's frustrating. Chances are, however, that there's something wrong with your system because many folks including me are using Kingston with no issues like the ones you're experiencing. I know that's not something you want to hear, but it's important information that will help us isolate the problem. People here will be very happy to help you resolve the problem if you promise not to yell at them.
 
PS: My system is over four years old and it Sonar blazes on it, so yours should just kill.
post edited by kevinwal - 2015/11/28 13:00:47

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