Cakewalk has updated SONAR Producer and SONAR Studio to v8.5.2.

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

• 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.
• Improve Mode State UI indicators.
• Cell content can now be dragged into the Track View.
• Now supports Step Sequencer Patters containing probabilities.
• Accessibility and QWERTY keyboard support.
• Now supports clips of up to 30 minutes in length.
• Import files directly from cells.

• 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.

• 70+ new impulse responses, provided by Acousticas.

• New indicator to show when Expander is functioning as a Gate.

• 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.

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

• 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 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.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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.
• 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%.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 descending 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.

• 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 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 Windows 7.