You are welcome.
Knowing you mess with autohotkey, I just finished a simple script to enable CTRL+n while the SONAR Start Screen is running. Even though I use my LaunchPad script (one of the tools above), I like the Start Screen and the change added in 2016.11 where the Start Screen reappears when no project is open in SONAR. The thing is I also like to use CTRL+n to create projects quickly. The Start Screen blocks CTRL+n. I had hoped that ~^n would pass CTRL+n through to SONAR after killing the Start Screen but it does not make it. That is why there is a Send at the end.
; always create new project with CTRL+n
#If WinExist("ahk_exe i)CakewalkStartScreen.exe")
^n::
WinKill, ahk_exe i)CakewalkStartScreen.exe
WinActivate, ahk_exe i)SONARPLT.exe
Send, ^n
Return
#If