Cakewalk Sonar Producer Edition 8.5.2

SONAR 8.5 Producer gives you what you need for recording, composing, editing, mixing, and mastering. Get innovations that matter, from exclusive features to ignite creativity and perfect your tracks, to groundbreaking technologies that always keep you in control, all backed by the industry's leading 64-bit audio quality. And SONAR 8.5 Producer delivers the go-to production tools you want with the best collection of virtual instruments, mixing, and mastering effects found in any DAW. With version 8.5, SONAR continues to innovate on all fronts. New beat creating and arrangement tools, a new drum instrument loaded with stellar kits, enhanced audio quantizing, new multi-stage effect plug-ins, and more combine together to make SONAR the most complete, most professional, and best sounding DAW on any platform.

SONAR 8.5.2 Update New Features

Arpeggiator

* Per-arp swing control slider
* Automatable controls

BitBridge

* Server preference can now be assigned per-plug-in, and will be saved with projects
* Now defaults to loading one server; this setting can be changed by the user and will be saved across sessions

Matrix View

* Column naming
* Per-cell "one-shot" mode
* New button to stop all cells
* New option to automatically Groove Clip audio and MIDI clips when dragging into the Matrix View
* Improved Mode State UI indicators
* Cell content can now be dragged into the Track View
* Now supports Step Sequencer Patterns containing probabilities
* Accessibility and QWERTY keyboard support
* Now supports clips of up to 30 minutes in length
* Import files directly from cells

Media Browser

* New mode to preview audio/MIDI content in sync with project tempo
* When using Tabbed Edit Views, you can now drag content from Media Browser to the Matrix View Tab to open the Matrix View and drop the content on the cell
* Now supports Step Sequencer Patterns containing probabilities

Perfect Space

* 70+ new impulse responses, provided by Acousticas

PX-64 Percussion Strip

* New indicator to show when Expander is functioning as a Gate

Session Drummer 3

* Channel output selections are now simple dropdown lists
* All Steven Slate, Sonic Reality and Cakewalk kits now have .KIT files for easy kit loading without changing programs

Step Sequencer

* Improved parameter controls for Dimension LE, Dimension Pro, DropZone, Pentagon I, Rapture, Rapture LE & Z3ta+
* 35 new step sequencer patterns

V-Studio Compatibility

* VS-100 Control Surface support for x64
* New ACT mappings for PX-64, VX-64 and Session Drummer 3

Issues Resolved in SONAR 8.5.2

Accessibility

* Event list view was not accessible
* Accelerator keys fixed for the following: Audio Effects Dialog, Audio Options
* Using keybinding to arm a track did not always work while a project was playing
* Can now change focus in Track view to the Track Inspector
* Extra Encoding Options was missing a keyboard accelerator
* Insert Tracks dialog had incorrect or missing accelerator keys
* Paste | Advanced dialog had missing accelerator keys

Arpeggiator

* Arpeggiator user interface would remain on after an instrument track was frozen
* Arpeggiator widget group would not appear unless FX Bin was also enabled
* Extra root notes played quietly when using "Rhythms" presets
* Arpeggiator introduced random, flammed or doubled notes when using some pattern-based presets
* Open Preset dialog did not always remember last folder location
* Velocity control had slightly different behavior for Rhythm Only shapes

AudioSnap

* Clicking Set Clip from Project would sometimes cause SONAR to crash under specific conditions
* SONAR would sometimes crash when choosing 'Set Measure/Beat at Now'
* Improved results using Threshold control
* MIDI events could not be quantized in the AudioSnap Pool
* MIDI events would not snap to transients in the AudioSnap Pool
* Tab to Transients in the PRV always followed the first track rather than the selected track
* Using Copy as MIDI would paste notes at 100% duration, making it difficult to work with
* Clicking AudioSnap Enable/Disable button would sometimes hide the waveform of the clip
* AudioSnap Enable did not light up in the palette after selecting "Edit Clip Map"
* The AudioSnap Palette would always re-open on the primary monitor, even when closed from a secondary monitor
* Drag/scroll did not work with the Transient Tool when selecting transient markers off screen
* When adding envelope nodes at transient markers, nodes were created for disabled markers
* SONAR would temporarily hang when adding envelope nodes at transients
* After splitting a clip with transient markers on, markers on right-side clip remained on after switching tools
* Transient markers sometimes appeared on Groove Clips
* Transient markers were not displayed on frozen clips after freezing an instrument track
* Projects sometimes took a very long time to load, due to AudioSnap performing tempo detection on load
* Tempo detection is now performed on a clip the first time an AudioSnap command is applied to a clip
* Duplicate tempo candidates sometimes appeared in the Average Tempo list
* SONAR was not always able to copy the clip tempo to the project tempo when choosing "Set Project from Clip" if the selected clip was at the start of a project
* F1 Help did not always open for the AudioSnap Palette

Automation

* Automation envelopes were sometimes excluded when copying data from instrument tracks
* Clip automation envelopes were sometimes deleted from a clip when an overlapping clip on another layer was deleted
* Copying clips with clip envelopes into tracks with layers sometimes caused the clip envelopes to stop working
* Automation Write button in synth plug-in header did not always arm all automatable parameters

Cakewalk Plug-ins

* External Insert did not always properly compensate for latency while recording
* Under some circumstances, Channel Tools would cause overs and stop the audio engine
* For VX-64, PX-64 & TL-64, changing parameters from a control surface did not update the graphics in the UI
* VX-64 & PX-64 dynamics and delay modules would sometimes lose their settings on sampling rate changes
* Dragging nodes in LP-64 EQ during playback would sometimes crash SONAR
* 'Half Rack' Plug-ins from Project5
o Were sometimes not installed correctly in Studio Edition
o Did not work/play sound in all x64 configurations
o Did not always display at the correct size
* Cakewalk MIDI FX plug-in controls did not display properly
* BitMeter plug-in was not installing correctly in SONAR Studio
* Projects containing Fantom VS or ARX editors did not always load properly in Windows Vista
* Tooltips were missing for Solo and Step Sequencer buttons in the SONAR plug-in header strip

General

* Bus input trim sometimes became inactive after bouncing, freezing or creating a V-Vocal clip in a project
* Non-default pan laws were not always applying the appropriate gains more info . . .
* SONAR sometimes glitched when enabling or disabling delay compensated plug-ins during playback
* Process | Audio | Reverse flatlined 64-bit audio files on x64
* Project files saved with Groove Clip slice edits did not always load the edits back in
* MIDI Echo no longer worked for Drum Maps
* the default latency for WDM/KS devices has now been lowered to 30msec from 100msec
* In the Event List, changing value or type of events caused the view to scroll to the top
* In the Piano Roll View, lassoing notes while zoomed in caused redraw problems and erratic selection behavior
* Improved overall stability on PC's using older AMD processors that do not support SSE2
* Assignable controls did not work for synths patched in an FX Bin
* SONAR sometimes crashed when inserting a VSTi with 'All Synth Outputs' checked in the Insert Synth dialog
* Insert Synth dialog did not remember settings across sessions
* Synth Rack could not be minimized when several other views were opened and maximized
* Floating windows could not be disabled for some views
* Projects containing Arturia Mood Modular V2.5 sometimes loaded with a compatibility warning
* Disk and CPU meters sometimes exceeded 100%


Track View

* Archived folders did not preserve Mute and Solo states
* Set Snap Offset to Now Time did not always persist the offset in clip properties
* Bouncing multiple Groove Clips that were split and moved sometimes yielded unpredictable results
* Groove Clips starting at Measure 1 played back incorrectly after the start time was adjusted
* SONAR sometimes did not draw clip waveforms for long WAVE64 audio files
* Improved stability with Groove Clips

Video

* Video sometimes did not maintain sync while looping in project
* Video was out of sync when using the audio metronome count-in
* Video lost sync when changing Now Time during playback
* WMV videos are sometimes displayed upside down when first imported into SONAR in Windows Vista or Windows7

Install notes:

1.Unrar and burn or mount ISO.
2.Follow the instruction. If you haven't installed SONAR 8 PE, our installer will copy a keyfile and add a value to your registry.
3.Retail Installer automatically runs, install with serial. (Read .nfo for Serial)
4.Update with our other release. (Cakewalk.Sonar.8.5.Procducer.Edition.v8.5.2.Update-peace-out)
5.Run our PuniPuni RegTool and SONAR will be regstered.
6.peace-out!

Q: Is this an update version?
A: Yes. SONAR 8.5 is provided only for update (at least in Japan). Retail disk version comes with 8.0.