Cakewalk has released the version 5.2 updates for SONAR.

New:

• Supports new VST 2.4 extensions, including 64-bit double-precision streaming and x64 compatibility.
• SONAR can now receive MIDI data from VST instruments.
• Added shell support for Waves VST plug-ins (DX versions already supported).
• Send up to 256 buses (16 channels per bus) of MIDI data to a ReWire device.
• Control Surface Enhancements (individual control surface plug-ins must be updated)
• Get/set Record Punch State
• Send stereo/surround metering to a control surface
• Get Marker Names
• Add a Marker
• Display mouse tracking info while editing MIDI in the Track View or Piano Roll View
• Displays current MIDI note or CC value in notes area
• Displays current time (musical or absolute) in the time ruler
• The Erase Tool has returned to the Piano Roll View and Inline Piano Roll View Toolbars.
• Auto Erase mode is now available as an option for the Draw Tool.

Fixed:

• When two or more parameters were automated on the same VST on the same track, automation did not render.
• Deleting a bus could sometimes cause one of its source buses to form a feedback loop and crash SONAR.
• Incorrect rounding mode used when converting 64-bit double precision to integer PCM formats.
• Dither was being applied inappropriately to float files
• The POW-r 2 and POW-r 3 noise shaping curves were slightly incorrect.
• Rectangular dither had insufficient levels
• Normalize sometimes caused overs on 32- and 64-bit audio.
• Enabling "Remove DC Offset During Record" affected both inputs of a stereo pair when only one of the inputs was receiving a signal.
• Scrolling to offscreen tracks with a control surface did not always bring those tracks into the view.
• Mackie C4 would sometimes freeze after connecting to SONAR.
• Some control surfaces would switch SONAR into overwrite mode when changing punch times.
• UAD-1 plug-ins caused CPU spikes, especially while looping.
• Groove Agent 2 sometimes dropped out during playback.
• V-Vocal clips sometimes did not play if the Now Time was set during playback
• V-Vocal sometimes produced an unwanted "flanging" or "phasing" sound
• The Audio Metronome caused video to play out of sync when recording.
• The Audio Metronome would start with a down-beat on a partial measure count-in.
• When used with a count-in, the Audio Metronome sometimes caused the recording to start late.
• Delete key did not delete selected MIDI notes in the Inline Piano Roll View.
• Could not audition MIDI note velocities in the controller pane.
• Piano Roll View notes appeared to change their start positions during a lasso.
• Piano Roll View tools were not bindable by user-defined hotkeys.
• Piano Roll View Zoom Tool hotkey was broken.
• A Sysx event in a TTS-1 MIDI source track sometimes caused the synth to dropout during playback.
• RPN/NRPN LSB was reset when MSB is received during recording.
• When transposing a MIDI track, linked clips were transposed twice.
• Opening a 24-bit project while playing caused audio distortion.
• Changing Import Bit Depth to 24 created static at first playback.
• SONAR would occasionally crash when saving a MIDI Type 1 file.
• Projects with per-clip effects bins sometimes incorrectly reported a "Disk may be full" error on bounce or export.
• On rare occasions, if a system crashed after a file save, the file could become corrupt.
• Snap to clip boundaries occasionally did not work.
• Ctrl+F did not open/close track folders.
• In the Track View Clips Pane, pressing the ESC key while the mouse button was held down did not escape out of the operation.
• SONAR incorrectly populated the ReWire menu when multiple versions of ACID were installed on the same computer
• SONAR x64 has been rebuilt with the latest development and build tools.
• SONAR x64: Process | Audio | Reverse resulted in flatlined audio.