What is the most stable and solid version of Sonar Platnum to date .

Hi friends , just wanted to know witch version you find the most solid (sonar platnum), post please your OS infos 
 
Cheers

For me I had the most solid experience last January, I think I was on the "M" version. I worked 14 hours a day for eight days straight and had only two crashes, I remember remarking upon it then. Of course, since then I've updated a whole bunch of other things besides Sonar so there is no guarantee going back to that Sonar version would improve stability at all.

+1 for 2016.11 on Win 7x64 or x86.
 
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2016-09 on Win 10. 

I'm in a holding pattern with 10/2016, no trouble w/win10 all updates, asio driver.

I don't remember. It was back a while but they keep making me upgrade so I forget when it all went wrong.
 
This post is in jest.

Since X3e I have never had anything happen that I would call "unstable" 
Weirdness yes, but un stable, no. 

X3 onward has been really good. Because I don't do a lot of heavy lifting, I can use a feature and not realize that I couldn't have used it 2 month earlier because it didn't exist. After a while the constant change just smears together and I can't really say what a specific update does.

Anderton
Every version...since switching to an audio interface with better drivers.  
 
However I haven't updated to 2016.11 because of people reporting problems with the CA-2A, which I use all the time. I figured I'd just wait until it got fixed in December, unless there's a hotfix first.
 
Regardless. this is a meaningless question because there is no objective way to measure stability. If you measure it by crashes, I can't remember the last time I had a crash BUT I have a finely-tuned hardware and software environment. So that might mean SONAR is stable, or it might mean my computer is. Or it might mean I don't things my computer or SONAR doesn't like, although I exercise both pretty hard.
 
The most common issues with SONAR relate to third-party plug-ins and audio interface drivers. So if someone installs a problematic plug-in in March that causes SONAR to crash, they'll say February was the most stable release. If someone else installs that plug-in in August, they'll say July was the most stable release.

+1 to every statement here
 
 

Anderton
Every version...since switching to an audio interface with better drivers. 
 
The most common issues with SONAR relate to third-party plug-ins and audio interface drivers.

2016.10  Windows 7
I struggled with constant crashes the last few years until I changed my interface two months ago.  Now it's all smooth sailing. 
 

JonD
I get the impression those of us still on Win 7 or 8.1 experience less odd behavior than those on Win 10.  Just my opinion.

It seems that way to me too from what I read on this forum.  Is there any hard data on this, or is it all anecdotal?  So far it's kept me from upgrading to Windows 10.

Bristol_Jonesey
Tell you what, if Cakewalk ever abandon Windows 7 so that SONAR no longer runs with it, I'm staying on the last version that does!

On 8.1 and that's as far as I go as well :-)
Don't be fooled by the start menu, Metro BS. Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 is a very nice easy OS.
Its similar to Windows 7 minus really, one thing... The start menu.
My Windows 8.1 boots up to the desktop just like 7.
 
Windows 10 however, nothing about it impresses me.

Thks guyz for all those great feedbacks ...i'm on 8.1
 
To answer Craig post , i do think Stability can be measured easily if you have a good methodologie of testing (i'm not talking bugs) but the ability of doing certain "key" tasks AS good , better or worst ...it's real easy to stress an engine ,or a particular area ...(pdc , graphic engine , ect ....) .... that said it's only doable like you said if NO other variables enter the equation witch is the case when i test ....
 
Yep Drivers are a key (that's why i use RME ) as well as system (dedicated here , Molten Music done).
 
I feel some strange stuff when it come to pDC since i a while  (with plugin that do oversampling when fallowed by another one regular ) and to check if it's sonar related or due to some else i wanted to update to a newere version to check (i want to give this probality a check) , that's why i'm asking here ...
 
again thks for the feedbacks .... i might try the 11 update and check at least the engine , for the bugs it's another story . since they said they improved the engine this means that they found areas to improves witch is a source of hope for me ;)
 
My version : 2016 / 07

For me the current version of Sonar Platinum with Windows 10 (with all updates), I hardly ever have a crash,
just lucky I guess, I even tried the latest complaints CA-2A and other plug-ins in every configurations, and still
"No Crash".  

I had my first crash in years going to 2016 11..   I dropped in CA2A on a fiddle track during playback..   If I add it prior to transport on,  no problem.  Course, could have been the fiddle...    So - 2016 10 is the most solid, but I didn't roll back to it.  Didn't need to in my case and since I know the bakers are on it, I'm fine with 2016 11.    
 
To keep the apples and oranges separate, I think the luck is in the entire environment and keeping it stable,  since I seem to be having really good results.  I'm just slightly smarter than a monkey so I emphasize LUCK.
 
In my case, the PC is relatively new, more than meets minimum spec for all the products I use,  its CMOS is up to date and its plugged into a line conditioner.  I keep the OS, Win 10,  up to date - but do not use auto updates on it, or any software.  Win 10 has been by far the most stable OS I have used for DAW work - since Windows 3.1.   The ONLY software other than the OS supplied products on the DAW are Platinum, Waves, Adobe PDF viewer,  Studio One 3, UC surface, MOTU AVB drivers, Presonus drivers, and Eventide H9 control.   I also keep these products up to date AND keep up with product direction as good as I can - I'm a monkey, but I can read.     I KNOW through experience,  a key reason to stability is relatively new audio interface units AND keeping the drivers and CMOS up to date.      
 
My average track size is around 40,  with around 16 stereo buses.  Depending on projects, my VST count per track is generally 2 if not more.  Love the new load balance stuff the bakers have put out recently by the way... I record audio, very little MIDI - drum tracks when I'm fleshing out a new song mostly.  I'm on the machine daily,  at least a few hours. On weekends, I usually run (sit?) 4 hours. However,  I did one 16 hour session a few weekends ago - non stop, no crashes or glitches.  The only problem with that session was seat-itis.
 
Best regards,
 
LL 
   

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