Hi all

First time Sonar user and looking forward to getting stuck in to it.  After years of Cubase have got some adjustments and retraining to do...2011 a new start :)

Purchased 8.5 on the free X1 upgrade deal all programs and components installed.  Main program on system drive, additional components and content on seperate data drive.  I only ran Sonar 8.5 to activate and then installed X1.  I noticed it all goes in a different directory so simple question.  

Can I now uninstall Sonar8.5 without any detriment to the X1 installation; components, addons, updates.etc.  I am presuming everything is duplicated and upgraded in X1?

How is the bridging in Sonar from x32 plugins?  I use jBridge, am I better using that (you can tell I'm a Cuabse user lol).  Does the beatscape bridge fine and everything else that's 32 in sonar? (Haven't installed Sonarx32 or the Sonitus FX x32.

I have not used x32bit DAW in over a year mainly due to sample banks in Kontakt and I am sure Dimension Pro will help hammer my memory usage :)

Anything else to watch for please, have included some components that may have issues?

Thanks

M

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If you remove 8.5, you may need to reinstall some of the plug-ins. If you're not hurting for hard drive space, I would just leave it.

Scott

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mfx,

no problem leaving older version on the hard drive.  Sonar will overwrite and then point to libraried stuff (effects, synths and other "large" files) so you don't have a bunch of the same programs/files clogging your drive.  The separate SONARs themselves aren't all that big and worth keeping as long as you aren't stressed for hard drive space.

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Do not uninstall until you know you have all presets exported/imported.

And that all existing projects work.

Appreciate the advice and no hard drive space isn't a problem, just clogging up as never and not used.

Thanks jm24 for advice, as mentioned I have never used Sonar for any project work 'First time user' :)

@AT Was wondering if just to delete the Sonar8.5 folder and reg clean etc but as you say it's only a 90mb file no biggy.

Thanks and now to sit down with some JD & soak up some Sonar (until the Mrs's drags me away).

Happy new year

If you want to use all of SONARs advertised features you should definitely leave 8.5 on your system.

Stuff will come up and you'll realize you want access to 8.5 on occasions.

best regards,
mike

this answers my Question.  I bought the same upgrade and hard to believe we cant do a clean install without first installing ver 8.  less then 1/2 dozen lines of code for them to verify we own the ver 8 without having to reinstall the thing and write over it.  Yes leaving errant files on your drive doesn't hurt it when separate dir but the extra lines in Registry can start to become an issue.  would be a nice feature but then again the cost of this program (sarcasm) is so low haha just tape it together.   Thanks much