This month’s release for SONAR Artist, Professional, and Platinum brings new features along with fixes & enhancements to many key elements of SONAR.
New Features The Start Screen is an important part of SONAR, in this update we have continued to refine it by making the project creation process more straightforward with new templates, we are now displaying Demo Projects when installed, and with the Discover tab you be able to more easily find news about Cakewalk and SONAR.
The New Discover Tab (Artist, Professional, and Platinum)
The Start Screen will now display new notifications through the Discover Tab. In this tab you’ll see news about Cakewalk and SONAR, new Expansion Packs, free content from our 30th Anniversary Celebration and be able to find all the latest issues of Tech+Music.
New Demo Projects(Artist, Professional, and Platinum)
When the Demo Projects installer is installed onto the computer, the Start Screen will now display a Demo Projects tab. The Demo Projects installer will be available for all versions of SONAR including SONAR Artist, Professional, and Platinum. The Demo projects are a great way to get started with SONAR for first time users but can also be used to experiment with new features. We’ll be continuing to add new news as well as periodically refresh them with new content.
Start Screen Improvements (Artist, Professional, and Platinum)
Using Ctrl+N or Ctrl+O, it is now possible to create a new project from the Start Screen as well as open an existing project. Clicking the New Project tab will now display templates and in this update we have streamlined the templates that are installed. New users will now see 6 templates installed for each version of SONAR; Empty Project, Basic, 4-Track, 16-Track, Guitar Amps, and Vocals.
To remove older templates, you can navigate to the Cakewalk Content folder and select your version and open the Project Templates folder.
Simplified Help Menu(Artist, Professional, and Platinum)
The help menu in SONAR previously had many many things in there and could sometimes be confusing to navigate. We have simplified this greatly and made the menu much more straightforward.
Fixes and Enhancements(Platinum, Professional, and Artist)
General- Paste Special did not respect Destination Track in some situations during Paste
- Creating FX Chains previously not add parameters to a control unless it was added twice
Stability- Dithering to 24-bit when exporting FLAC previously could cause unexpected crackles in the exported file
- Resolved an issue where SONAR may crash on OMF Export
Track View- Drag reordering a bus would was off by 1 when moved to a new position
- Editing minimized Track View clips was previously difficult to slip-edit/crop on the right edge
Piano Roll View- The Transform Tool no longer bounces clips together when doing velocity changes
- The Transform button now reflects Hard or Soft mode in the button when switching
- The Transform Tool’s Mask mode will now respond to Hard and Soft mode when Drawing through the Transform box
- Transform Tool now responds correctly when “Show Velocity on Selected Notes Only” is selected
- Transform Tool did not display preview correctly in certain conditions
Important note for customers who participated in Early Access:The build number did not change from Early Access to Public release but there are some important content changes to the installer. Unfortunately you won't be able to update using C3. Please use our website and download the latest version. SONAR Platinum = SONAR_Platinum_Setup_23.8.0.30(Rebuild_2).exe SONAR Professional = SONAR_Professional_Setup_23.8.0.30(Rebuild_3).exe SONAR Artist = SONAR_Artist_Setup_23.8.0.30(Rebuild_3).exe