I believe there are some GUI. changes in the PRV in this 2107/04 Early Access which will no doubt carry forward to full release 04.

Please check that your themes are still working as you intend. Some have already updated theirs, that's how I know about it.

Announcement: Cakewalk have recently given me moderator status for the sole purpose of helping Elffin manage the Software Utilities thread. It means for one, that regular forum hosts don't need to be co-opted into helping out for such minor activities as keeping the thread clean of unecessary posts etc and above all it's a vote of confidence in how important Cakewalk think the Software Utilites thread is as a community contribution. Cakewalk are very happy about the level of support and the quality of contributions. This is their small way of giving support back to us. Thanks Cakewalk.

So for a few projects on the immediate horizon. In an effort to make the Software threads a little more user friendly.

very soon we will be splitting out the themes into their own sticky thread. It should make things a little easier to find and to manage.

We'll also be bringing over the forum member tips in another thread. We'll make a further announcement shortly once all the mechanics of the process have been tied down. NOT Craig A's tip of the week but tips from other members. Eg. There's a brief tutorial that bob bone wrote on using Kontakt in Sonar with multi outputs. It does the rounds fairly often as do many others so we want to put them into a library with a table of contents.
If you have some suggestions let me know here in this thread or send me a PM.
If you have a tip, write it out so it can be understood by a noob.
More news soon. Thanks for your support

Mudgel (Mike V)

This is great. Thanks for your work!

Shame we have seen no development in themes since it's release. Too many things should have been addressed whilst it was still hot out of the oven. I'm disappointed that they didn't factor that into their plan, to respond to some of the feedback.  For the huge amount of time it takes to create anything really different, there are too many niggles for me to make any real further effort.

Kinda feels like the bakery is in the same boat, release and abandon.

Yeah, theme editor feels so close to being what it should, but just falls a little short. Whoever they brought in should have been tied in a little longer to respond to the feed back. I don't think any of them were really very big to change, but the effect of them just too limiting. To go through the effort of developing a new theme requires an element of OCD, but that means these little issues feel more nagging.

Mike, Ellfin,
 
Glad to see this effort.  Getting user contributions organized is a great idea!!!  There is so much that can be shared.
 
Thanks to all for the wonderful contributions!

Can't find this, asked Bob in the release thread, but he didn't answer. Bug means I have to close the project every time I make a change. and no release data from Cakewalk isn't very helpful
 

Kamikaze: Please open a thread to follow up your problem. It really has nothing to do with this thread.

If I had taken the view that there have only been 13 different members submit Sonar Themes for sharing I would have figured the effort isn't worth doing anything with.

Rather I prefer to find a small way where we can stimulate input from members not only in creating themes but general tips and more utilities to make using Sonar a more pleasant and expansive experience.

If folks want to debate the effectiveness of Sonar or some feature or lack of it please take it to another thread and allow this thread to continue in harmony with the stated theme. Thanks.

Could we see about getting a whole utility section? Having just a single thread for it is a bit much and would be better to be split up.