SONAR 8.5.2 released

Cakewalk releases SONAR 8.5.2

This update contains new features and bugfixes.

Release notes

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
Were sometimes not installed correctly in Studio Edition
Did not work/play sound in all x64 configurations
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%
Instrument Tracks
Inserting track templates containing instrument tracks sometimes played at a lower volume than when saved
Pasting MIDI data to/from an instrument track sometimes created a new MIDI track
Matrix View
Capturing to the Track View now obeys Matrix row mutes and solos
Capturing to the Track View did not always work correctly for cells that were looping if the source clip was not a Groove Clip
When capturing to the Track View, sometimes triggering a new cell to toggle off a previously playing cell did not turn off the capture from the previous cell
Matrix View sometimes dropped the first buffer on triggering an audio cell and played an extra buffer after triggering the cell off
Under certain conditions, MIDI cells missed the first note when triggered
Pending cells would get triggered when enabling ‘Sync to SONAR Transport’
Cells did not stop when in ‘Transport Sync’ mode if the metronome was enabled
When not set to ‘Follow Transport’, triggering a cell for the first time did not always start immediately
When set to ‘Follow Transport’, stopping SONAR sometimes did not stop all cells in the Matrix
Cells would not retrigger when Global Retrigger mode was on and Global Loop mode was off
On some occasions, scrollbars did not always appear when rows containing populated cells were off screen
Cell progress indicators were not always indicating the exact playback position of the cell
Multiple clips could not be simultaneously drag-dropped from the Track View into the Matrix
Did not support type 1 MIDI files
Timing and performance optimizations
Media Browser
Presets did not function properly in non-English OS’s
Presets pointing to folders under “My Documents” did not function properly on Windows 7
No longer continues to play selected clip(s) after dragging into the Matrix View
Preview Bus list did not update for renamed buses
Improved stability with multiple projects opened simultaneously
Step Sequencer
Opening and closing the controller pane when scrolled down in the view caused the view to scroll to the top
With multiple rows selected, changing a parameter in one row sometimes changed all parameters in other rows as well
Velocities could not be edited for newly-created steps while the velocity lane was open
Velocities could no longer be edited after changing the number of beats in the pattern
Edit controls pop-up did not appear correctly on screen when scrolled down the view
Tooltips did not display the parameter/value as the control was dragged
MIDI CC’s in controller pane did not display the CC number
Did not always retain New Value Types added to the controller pane
Flammed steps played back inconsistently when per-step probability was less than 100%
Clearing all steps sometimes did not clear probability settings
Patterns with a time offset on the last step would sometimes hang the last note
Step Sequencer sometimes opened on previously selected track rather than selected track
Inserting a new row in a Step Sequencer attached to an unlinked Step Sequencer clip could cause SONAR to crash under certain conditions
The Step Sequencer view sometimes expanded after deleting a row
Looping the Step Sequencer with Reason 4 sometimes dropped notes after looping
Performance optimizations
Session Drummer 3
There was a memory leak in Session Drummer 3 upon opening and closing projects
In French version of SONAR, some SD3 kits played at +12dB to +20dB too loud
On Windows 7 x64, closing and opening the UI during playback sometimes caused SD3 to no longer play audio
Various content issues with the following kits:
Steven Slate Kits
StevenSlate_OldZepKit_Dry and StevenSlate_SizzleKit_Dry had cutoff problems when quiet notes followed loud notes
StevenSlate_SizzleKit_Dry hi hats were not grouped
Dry kits weren’t choking the hi hats properly
Sidesticks weren’t full velocity sensitive and did not play properly at low velocities
Crash cymbals and toms were cutting themselves off
Toms were not correctly decending in pitch from Note 50 down to the lowest Floor Tom
Sonic Reality Kits
Some side stick sounds didn’t have full velocity scaling; a very low velocity would trigger a loud sound
Some open hi-hats sounded like pedal hats, and had excessive low frequency content
Snares were monophonic; hitting a snare twice would produce an unexpected cutoff sound
Some snare rolls played too slow
PremrTimbaleKit: Right Hand Snare, Note 40, and Right Hand Low Snare, note 43, at high velocity, had an audible click in the right speaker
ClassicRock Kit: Crash Cymbal on Note 49 triggered a Bell hit of the Cymbal rather than a normal Crash Cymbal
Blues Kit: The Snare Roll samples had an audible hissing noise
BritRock Kit: The Snare Roll had an audible clicking on the attack
RingBeats Kit
There was an audible hissing noise in the Snare Roll
There was audible clicking in some velocity layers of the Snare Roll
SideStick had doubled/flamed hits towards the upper velocities
TR-707 had missing floor tom sample
TR-808_bright had missing low cymbal sample
DarkLordOfTheSethKits: sidestick was not fully velocity sensitive
NPulse kit contained some samples with extra hits at the very end
Groovy Kit Brushes Note 39 played the wrong sample
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