The Early Access Program is Now Live for the Upcoming Release of SONAR 2016.09

The new features for this release are as follows. More details can be found in the SONAR Online Documentation:

• Plug-in load balancing (Platinum only)
• CPU meter modes
• Quick Group Freeze
• Full Screen toggle
• Softube Saturation Knob update (Platinum and Professional only)
• Brazilian Portuguese Localization (previously Steam-only)
• Command Center Brazilian Portuguese Support

The fixes in this release include:

• Take Management/Comping:
  • It was not possible to drag a clip to a different lane in another track if the target track was below the source track.
  • Speed Comping could create unexpected extra clips.
  • In some cases, Speed Comping would fail to mute/unmute clips.
  • Paste of clip always ended up on Take Lane original to source clip.
  • Dragging a comp clip to a Take Lane produced unexpected results.
  • In some cases, attempting to cross-crop two adjacent clips in different lanes would only affect a single clip.
• Plug-ins:
  • Various VST 3 Host Bypass fixes.
  • Plug-in upsampling did not operate properly in some cases.
  • Quick-Group insert FX could fail if the selected tracks contained different numbers of plug-ins.
  • Customizing FX Chains could cause SONAR to hang.
  • FX Chains could cause crash when used in a playlist.
  • Changing VST3 presets from the plug-in property page sometimes resulted in inconsistent behavior.
  • Assignable controls for Waves plug-ins could send to incorrect parameter.
• Region FX:
  • Pro Channel would disappears on all tracks/buses after Melodyne bounce-to-clips, followed by right-clicking another clip.
  • Undo of a copied Melodyne clip did not update the Melodyne GUI.
  • Deleted tracks that contained Melodyne Region FX clips were still displayed in Melodyne's track header.
• Browser:
  • Crash on startup related to SQLLite.
  • The Plug-in Browser could display empty category folders.
  • The Plug-in Browser could display an empty "Uncategorized" folder in the Instruments tab.
  • SONAR could crash upon launch if the Plug-in Browser library database was corrupt.
  • In the Plug-in Browser, it was not possible to revert DirectX Plug-ins to their original name.
  • Renaming/categorizing plug-ins in the Plug-in Browser would close all expanded folders.
  • Renaming/categorizing plug-ins in the Plug-in Browser could result in temporary freeze if performed on Windows Basic/Classic theme.
  • Changing friendly plug-in name did not initially update existing instances in FX Racks.
  • The Plug-in Browser did not hide folders for VST2s with identical plug-in names.
  • Cakewalk TTS-1 did not display a friendly name in the Set Categories dialog box.
  • Plug-in Browser category was named "General Midi" instead of "General MIDI".
  • When not showing plug-in categories, the Plug-in Browser would create a new folder for any loose VST3 plug-ins that were installed in the Common Files\VST3 root folder.
  • Closing a project with the Synth Rack open could result in a crash.
  • Insert Synth menu would fail to open if there were more than 255 VSTi plug-ins available.
• Matrix:
  • Matrix could skip first note in MIDI clips when playback started.
  • It was not possible to scroll in the Matrix with the mouse wheel if the mouse was over track strips.
  • Undoing a Matrix performance recording could result in a crash.
• ProChannel:
  • Saturation Knob could cause SONAR to crash.
• Misc.:
  • Selecting the last Automation Lane could cause a crash.
  • It was not possible to rename bus Automation Lanes.
  • It was not possible to use the Crop tool on the right side of a crossfade unless you selected the clip.
  • Selecting the left clip in a crossfade would obscure the right clip's fade in.
  • Cropping multiple clips simultaneously would fail in some case when Snap to Grid was enabled.
  • Adjusting crossfade on multiple selected tracks did not produce correct results.
  • Auto Crossfades did not work properly with clip selection groups.
  • 'Select Track Envelopes with Clips' did not function properly when moving grouped clips.
  • Modified clip colors in the Inspector didn't show immediately.
  • Unexpected behavior when adjusting clip length from the Clip Properties inspector if the format was MBT.
  • Superfluous snap offset was created after stretching audio clip.
  • Scroll bar thumb was difficult to see while being dragged.
  • Clicking rapidly in the scroll bar did not always advance the timeline.
  • Under rare circumstances, a crash could occur when deleting buses.
  • 'Follow Host Tempo' did not behave as expected.
  • The About screen showed mixed version information.
  • General Installer improvements.
• Help:
  • Help Module would not show text for the time ruler or Clips pane.
  • Help button for Preferences > File - Audio Data did not open help topic.
  • Help button for Preferences > Project - Surround did not open help topic.
• Localization:
  • Multiple Brazilian-Portuguese UI fixes (applies to Steam users of SONAR Brazilian Portuguese 2016.08)
  • [Russian] Several list items in Edit > Preferences > Customization - Colors were cut off.
  • [Russian] Some values in the Groove Quantize dialog box were cut off.

 
To participate, you can obtain the Early Access release via:

• Cakewalk Command Center under the Rollback menu. Steps:
  • Start Command Center
  • Click the Settings button
  • Click the Check Now button
  • In the Connected Products list, right-click on the product or suite name you want early access to
  • Choose Rollback > Early Access 2016.09 from the context menu
• Or through your products download page, under "Available Downloads."
  • Click the "Show Other Downloads" button to reveal the link.

If you encounter any critical issues specific to 2016.09 prior to official public release, post them to the Problem Reports Forum. Please include "SONAR 2016.09" in the post title, and refrain from including issues not related to SONAR 2016.09 as they may get missed. We’ll do our best to lock posts as we confirm the reports.
 
Thank you for your participation,
Cakewalk