Cakewalk has updated SONAR to v7.0.2.

New Features

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, compatible which now makes SONAR compatible with all Euphonix Control Surfaces - Download the EuCon Control Surface plug-in here.

Issues Resolved

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.