Sonar PE update 7 02

The long awaited Sonar cakewalk 7.02 update fixes many issues. Very nice I needed it bigtime. Included Asio beta driver 2 for vista users.be sure you have the 7.01 update installed first.

Enjoy.

Fixed a nice issue with the Korg legacy cell plugin and much more.



SONAR 7.0.2 Update



The information in this article applies to:



SONAR 7 Producer Edition

SONAR 7 Studio Edition







New Features in SONAR 7.0.2:



Step Sequencer

Save and load SONAR Step Sequencer pattern files

New mouse gestures to edit velocities in the steps pane

Change/set default velocity of new steps

Step record from MIDI devices

Option to audition notes when clicking on steps

Preserve patterns when changing step sizes





Main Application

Auto-fade playback when starting/stopping the transport

Option to automatically enable input monitoring when recording





Euphonix EuCon

Cakewalk has released a Control Surface plug-in supporting the Euphonix EuCon protocol, which now makes SONAR compatible with all Euphonix Control Surfaces - Download the EuCon Control Surface plug-in here







Issues Resolved in SONAR 7.0.2:



Main Application

Various performance/stability issues

Duplicate notes in drum map manager would crash SONAR

Inserting an effect into a track with the per-track EQ set to post-FX Bin would cause a crash.

AudioSnap clip rendering could not be cancelled by the user

Audio Export file type defaulted to AIFF after exporting an MP3

SendLocalOn TTSEQ.INI variable was not functioning properly

Track Inspector did not always update to the selected track

Synth freeze failed when a post-fader send was assigned to a sidechain input

Opening and closing Clip Properties dialog sometimes changed clip length

Reverting clips to original time stamp sometimes failed after original clip was split

Cropping audio and MIDI clips that are at time 0 sometimes caused the clip's contents to shift in time

Intermittent audio stuttering, aka "motorboating", during playback with certain audio hardware and system configurations is corrected

Freezing a synth sometimes caused bus automation to be ignored

Sysex banks were never rendered to soft synths when exporting or bouncing a project containing sysex banks

Saving Cakewalk Bundle Files with mixed audio bit depths could fail when the total size exceeded 2GB if the individual audio files were under 2GB

In the Staff View, noteheads and the time ruler sometimes displayed incorrectly during playback.

SONAR reported installation issues on some systems loaded with an OEM version of Microsoft Vista.





Piano Roll View

Painting new CCs in multi-track Piano Roll View sometimes caused CCs from other tracks in the PRV to be erased

When inserting a note on a hidden track, the track was not made visible

Lasso selecting notes and moving the selection offscreen caused original notes to become unselected





Automation

SONAR would sometimes crash when adding bus envelopes

Automation from synths in the Synth Rack could not be edited

Editing automation during playback was not always rendered immediately





External Inserts

Assigning a series of track inputs when an External Insert was in the project would sometimes cause SONAR to freeze

Did not retain mono routings

Failed to launch help when pressing F1





Step Sequencer

Current step display indicators sometimes got out of sync when editing patterns during playback

Track transpose (Key+/-) settings were ignored on input





Plug-ins and Components

When dragging MIDI data from a V-Vocal pitch-to-MIDI operation, the new MIDI clip was not always created at the drop point

Paging through Z3TA+ patches sometimes caused a crash

Improvements made to match mode in PCR-30, PCR-300 and ACT MIDI Control Surface plug-ins

Send pre/post and enable buttons were not exposed to Control Surfaces

SONAR did not refresh preset lists when requested by VST plug-ins





Third Party Issues

Inserting Korg LegacyCell or Steinberg Hypersonic would crash SONAR

Bounced tracks that contained VST plug-ins requiring delay compensation would sometimes include artifacts from extra buffers

V-Station PowerCore was disabled upon inserting into SONAR

UAD-1 displayed an Err=30 message when changing audio driver buffer size





After installing the 7.0.2 Update, please see the ReadMe file for more information. This download includes the English, French and German updates for all supported operating systems.



Please note you must have SONAR 7.0.1 installed in order to run this update.



In order to access this free download you must be a registered SONAR 7 customer. If you have not registered your product you can register online now.



Windows Vista users note: In order to authorize SONAR you will need to run the application with Administrative privileges. To run SONAR as an administrator, right click either the SONAR desktop shortcut or the SONAR application in START MENU|PROGRAMS and choose "Run as administrator" from the context menu.