Sonar 6 and Rumors

[whyterabbyt]

I dug out my S3 PE discs with great excitement, but I'll be damned if I can find any Sonitus VST's.

If you could give me some details on this, that would be awesome! All the Sonitus plugs are in my Shared Plugs folders. I thought there were both DX and VST versions, but when I moved the .dll's to my VST folder, the wrapper didn't recognize them and then Sonar told me they were missing.

What am I missing here???

If you look in blah/Shared Plugins you should see 'matched pairs' of plugins named like

SonitusFxPhaseDX.dll
Sonitus FxPhase.dll

The latter is the VST version. Copy (not move) all the VST versions into a separate folder and point your VST-type host at that new folder, not the one which also contains the DX files.

You should get the Delay, Phaser, Gate, Modulator, Reverb, Surround and Wahwah, I think.

[birrbits]

Another less reliable rumor: they will bundle Cakewalk 1.0 DOS version, the theory being that by showing this in contrast, users will see how far their program has developed over the years.

Not suprised that they wouldn't bundle the first WINDOWS versions of Cakewalk....as this would show how much HASN'T changed.
I'm not a Sonar hater or anything, BUT the only reason I never upgraded from Cakewalk pro audio 9 was because I found that Sonar 5 STILL had many menus (including the project menu) left over from pre- Pro Audio days! I already ranted about this in a different thread.

The bottom line to me is this, until SONAR gets a COMPLETE facelift (ie no more win 3.11 default help icons and a frikkin updated midi-mapping gui, etc etc) there is no way they are getting another penny from me. I paid them to give me an "updated" audio engine twice (remember wavepipe anyone?) which have since been replaced in the numerous versions of Sonar yet in 2006 there are sections of the GUI which haven't been touched since the early 90's...(over 10 years)

I think the product is great, but if they want my money they need to do some cleaning.
I dont think this is much to ask for considering the money spent.

edit: from reading the other thread on Sonar 6, looks like there may be some GUI improvements coming...I look forward to the demo (see it wasnt really a rant)

[Alan]

New SONAR 6 Features:

Active Controller Technology (ACT): dynamically re-maps effect, mix and instrument parameters to hardware controllers
New Synth Rack makes managing, controlling, and automating your instruments simple
AudioSnap suite of tools includes:
Non-destructive audio quantize
Lock multiple tracks into the same groove
Apply seamless tempo changes to audio
Convert audio beats to MIDI
Slip-stretch clips to a new time or length
High-quality time stretching algorithms including iZotope Radius™, Percussion Mode, more
Console view redesigned for ergonomic mixing
Transport provides easy playback control and vital visual feedback
Automation enhancements: read/write controls for tracks and plug-ins, enable automation during playback and record, visual automation cues, more
Analyst spectrum analyzer
Clip editing enhancements including lock to time
Fast Zoom enables fast, precise edits without losing your place
Mouse wheel support for parameter control and zoom
Import 64-bit floating point audio files
Crash Recovery safeguards your projects against faulty plug-ins and other sources of crashes
Automatic file versioning: back up projects with time/date stamps for easy access to old versions
Customizable user interface: put favorite features right at your fingertips
User-customizable plug-in menus for easy organization and grouping
User-customizable audio hardware port naming
Custom color schemes with saturation, hue, and brightness controls
Freedom to Create

Record and edit unlimited tracks of audio and MIDI.
Get the perfect take with the best comping, editing, and take management tools available.
Record live through professional effects: VC-64 Vintage Channel, Perfect Space™ Convolution Reverb, Lexicon Pantheon™ Reverb, Sonitus:fx Suite, and more—31 audio and MIDI effects.
Use AudioSnap to non-destructively fix audio timing, make instant tempo changes to an entire project, lock multiple tracks into the same groove—even quantize multiple tracks in relation to each other. All with unmatched audio fidelity.
Clean up vocals with Roland® V-Vocal ™ Editor, providing pitch correction, phrasing, dynamics, and vibrato.
Make music with 9 amazing instruments: Session Drummer™ 2; two synths with genuine Roland sounds; analog and subtractive synths; REX, SFZ, and groove samplers.
Get total control of virtual instruments, effects, and mixing from your MIDI controllers and control surfaces with Active Controller Technology (ACT).
Control and automate your virtual instruments with the new Synth Rack.
Freeze tracks, instruments, and effects to conserve processing power.
Create backing tracks fast with MIDI groove clips, ACID™-format loops, and RXP™ REX player.
Expand your sound with integrated support for VST, DirectX, and ReWire instruments and effects.
Score to video with a thumbnail track and output to 1394 FireWire devices.
Producer Edition Exclusives

AudioSnap Multitrack Audio Quantize
VC-64 Vintage Channel™—warm sound, dual EQ and compressor stages, analog component modeling, presets by professionals
Session Drummer™ 2 instrument with professional multi-sampled drum kits, hundreds of vital, usable patterns
Roland V-Vocal VariPhrase Processor
Surround mixing in over 30 formats, SurroundBridge™ technology, and Sonitus Surround Compressor
POW-r dithering
PSYN™ II Subtractive Synthesizer
Pentagon™ I Analog Modeling Synth
RXP™ Groove Box with REX file support
Perfect Space Convolution Reverb
Lexicon Pantheon Reverb