Sonar users looking to integrate their DAW with external hardware will also be pleased to know that Sonar now enables the assignment of audio to mono outputs.
Some of Sonar 8's additions and enhancements finally bring it up to speed with its competitors. This was due to the fact that the first ASIO buffer was inaudible, and at long last it's been rectified. Happily, one of Sonar 7's most irritating issues has been resolved - the fact that the audio metronome would skip the first beat. Thankfully, now that this problem has been remedied, ASIO devices are always running. It used to be that ASIO devices were occasionally stopped and restarted upon engaging the transport. Users of previous Sonars have also levelled complaints at Cakewalk's ASIO implementation. Tape decks and competing DAWs allow it and now, finally, Sonar does too. We've always wondered, for example, why you couldn't arm recording while the audio was playing or recording, allowing audio to be punched into a track on the fly? It saves disk space and helps keep the creative juices flowing. Though most users will never actually make such changes mid-flight, it was always a drag for those who needed it.
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On a positive note, we were thrilled to discover that changes made to the audio driver settings no longer require a restart to take effect. Cakewalk is aware of the bug and is' working to sort it out. Worse still, when we tried to normalise a file while the audio was playing, the resultant clip was ridden with glitches (though fortunately this doesn't occur when normalising offline). There are still brief moments of silence while changing loop points on the fly. That isn't to say the audio is entirely glitch free, however. We'd grown used to Sonar's audio engine periodically grinding to a halt, but we encountered no such stalls this time around. This translates into better audio performance, lower latencies and fewer dropouts. If anything, this version seems to use less processing power. Latencies on X64 machines are no longer substantially higher than on X86 boxes, as was the case in past versions.įortunately, these tweaks don't come at the expense of CPU cycles. Some improvements are particularly noticeable on 64-bit systems. Vista users in particular will be pleased that Sonar 8 has been optimised for that particular system. Many of the most significant changes in Sonar 8 are not apparent upon first (or even second) glance.
The graphics are snappier and cleaner, launch time has been reduced, and the metering is now more precise. The annoying 'flickering' that once plagued the DAW's visuals (especially when resizing windows) has been rendered a thing of the past. Cakewalk has made a concerted effort to optimise the performance of the audio engine and even the graphics - a welcome improvement after we took them to task about some graphics bugs last time around.
Sadly, though, Cakewalk Arpeggiator is out for this sort of track because, despite the audio FX Bin being available to Instrument Tracks, you can't use MIDI effects plug-ins with them. You can also split the Instrument Track manually - a thoughtful touch. Once you've done this, deleting the instrument results in the track being automatically split into separate audio and MIDI tracks, preserving any MIDI data and audio effects along the way. Now Sonar users can open an instrument using a similarly dedicated track.
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