wow...thanks a lot guys....glad you like em!

Jose, the file only patches the graphics in the dll, so if and when cake update 7 or 8, the same patch should work on all updates (unless they recode the UI graphics in 7 or 8, which is very doubtful). I'm using vista 64 myself and no problems at all. I had the x64 bit version of sonar 7 installed since the get go, but just today I installed the x32 bit version instead as some of my old plugs didn't work and i got tired of some other bitbridge probs. and yes, the exe file needs to be inside the same folder as the TTSRes DLL file (for simplicity's sake). OT: The other thing i found is using a custom theme on vista x64 looks better for audio stuff (less distracting details). I personally use a customized version of "Zune" which was ported to vista. it gives vista a sleek XP style. if your interested, there is a great tutorial + link to themes HERE. On my XP machine, I use the "RoyalFour" (black) which is gorgeous imho

kubalibre, I'm using sonar 7, so if you want to upload the sonar 8 x64 dll and send a link in an PM or something (you can use 7-zip or winrar to compress it down to 2MB +/-) ...then i can use it as a reference for the patch and upload it here for everyone.

Hey Buddy;
Thanks from me for your work on this. Much appreciated.

Buddy110,

Thanks a lot! I actually like the look of Vista the way it is, but thanks for the suggestion. On my XP machine, I use Vista Inspirat 2 which makes it look very slick:

http://www.vista-inspirat.net/



Take care!

OT: The other thing i found is using a custom theme on vista x64 looks better for audio stuff (less distracting details). I personally use a customized version of "Zune" which was ported to vista. it gives vista a sleek XP style. if your interested, there is a great tutorial + link to themes HERE. On my XP machine, I use the "RoyalFour" (black) which is gorgeous imho

This may not be good if it doesn't use the Aero desktop. Its important to keep that going when using a DAW. Sonar will perform better with it on and used. Aero offloads all screen rewrites to the graphics card. This is not true when its not active.

Hey John,

I know you advocate this a lot, but I didn't find that to be true in my case. Sonar actually performs noticably better for me with Aero turned OFF, but I keep it ON because I like it :-P. I'd say this is a YMMV type of deal.


Take care!

It could be a question of graphics horsepower. If you have a Vista ready graphics card it should be performing better with it on. You don't need a screaming game video card but it should be up to date. I recommend Nvidia Gforce 8500 GT or better. Those run about $60 with 512mb of on board mem.

Hi Buddy

I uploaded the Sonar 8 64bit dll here

http://www.speedshare.org/download.php?id=C68C196412

Thanks for doing this!
Looking forward to use the fancy faders in Sonar x64

Hope you get hired by CW to work on the user interface! :-)

ORIGINAL: Buddy110

kubalibre, I'm using sonar 7, so if you want to upload the sonar 8 x64 dll and send a link in an PM or something (you can use 7-zip or winrar to compress it down to 2MB +/-) ...then i can use it as a reference for the patch and upload it here for everyone.

thanks kubalibre, I've updated my previous post: Here.

Hi John, thanks for the info, always good to know. I've read the opposite in a few places on the net though. is this more of a sonar/vista thing? I have aero off mainly for aesthetic purposes (the blue tinge/menu gradients drive me nuts)...even though I have a nvidia 8800gts + 8gb ram

'Vista Inspirat' - very nice! if only the default vista aero had the flat grey area at the top! hmmm.....

* walks off to hack vista! lol *

ORIGINAL: John

It could be a question of graphics horsepower. If you have a Vista ready graphics card it should be performing better with it on. You don't need a screaming game video card but it should be up to date. I recommend Nvidia Gforce 8500 GT or better. Those run about $60 with 512mb of on board mem.

It might be my video adapter since it was rated a 4.0 (the rest got 5.9) on the Vista experience rating deal. I got an ATI Radeon HD 3450 with 256MB of onboard memory which I thought would be more than enough for a DAW but it might not be for Vista :-S. Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that not everybody benefits from having Aero ON and I tested this various times with the same results (Aero OFF works better with Sonar on my machine - see signature for details).

Take care!

Jose this is a problem that we need to get to the bottom of. However we shouldn't do it on this thread. I will do a little research and post a new thread dealing with it if I find some answers.