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README.RTF Copyright 2005 Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. Cakewalk is a registered trademark, and SONAR is a trademark of Twelve Tone Systems, Inc. This file contains supplemental information on SONAR LE. It was prepared on March 11, 2005.
Contents
Top Issues in SONAR LE............................................................................................................... 2 Windows 2000/XP and SONAR............................................................................................... 2 Backwards Compatibility.......................................................................................................... 2 Bus Solo.................................................................................................................................... 2 Track Interleave and Pre-SONAR LE Projects...................................................................... 2 Pre-Fader Sends and Pre-SONAR LE Projects......................................................................... 3 Keyboard Shortcut For Preview Loop In Loop Construction View......................................3 Keyboard Shortcut For Preview Loop In Loop Explorer View............................................. 3 Keyboard Shortcut For Play Event In Event List View......................................................... 3 Audio Performance Issues.............................................................................................................. 3 DeZippering (Smoothing) When Gapping................................................................................ 3 Disable Automatic Plug-In Delay Compensation (PDC).......................................................... 4 DXis & Look-ahead Processing at High Latencies................................................................. 5 Sampling DXi's and the "Enable Multiprocessing Engine" Audio Option............................... 5 HyperThreading / Multiprocessor Optimization....................................................................... 5 MIDI Prepare Buffer Size and Automation.............................................................................. 5 Improve Responsiveness of Real-Time MFX Plug-Ins............................................................ 5 Confidence Recording Waveform Previews............................................................................. 6 Meter Frame Size...................................................................................................................... 6 Control Surfaces With Jog Wheel............................................................................................. 6 General............................................................................................................................................. 7 Cakewalk External Encoder Config Utility.............................................................................. 7 Track View Widget Reordering................................................................................................ 7 Warning: Input Echo May Cause Feedback Loop.................................................................... 9 Always Display Widgets in Track Header Bar....................................................................... 10 Display Drop Shadow On Clips.............................................................................................. 10 Console View Auto-Resizing.................................................................................................. 10 User Control of Pause During File Save................................................................................. 11
Automatically Sending Controller Resets to DXis................................................................ 11 Upgrading to SONAR from an Earlier Version of a Cakewalk Product................................11 Known Issues................................................................................................................................. 12 QuickTime Issues.................................................................................................................... 12 Audio Metronome Issues........................................................................................................ 12 Enabling Mono on a Bus/Main Will Affect Upstream Meters............................................... 12 Adding MIDI Device May Break Control Surface Support and MIDI Key Bindings...........12 MP3 Files With 256K Bit Rate May Not Play in SONAR LE............................................... 12 Using Cakewalk Kinetic Groove Synth in SONAR LE.......................................................... 13 Importing MPEG 2 Files in SONAR LE................................................................................ 13 Successive Snapshots Do Not Update Envelope Node Values............................................... 13 Staff View Font May Require Reboot After SONAR is Installed.......................................... 13 Can't Print if Staff View is Floating........................................................................................ 13 Muted MIDI Ranges are Not Distinguished Visually............................................................. 13
Backwards Compatibility
SONAR LE can load SONAR 1.x, SONAR 2.x, SONAR 3.x, and SONAR 4.x projects, but projects that are saved in SONAR LE cannot be re-opened in SONAR 1.x or SONAR 2.x. In case you need to open a pre-SONAR LE project in an earlier version of SONAR, it is recommended that you always create a backup copy of the original project before you re-save the project in SONAR LE.
Bus Solo
When a bus is soloed, SONAR will not mute MIDI tracks that are assigned to external MIDI ports. This is intentional, as the external MIDI devices audio output might be fed back to SONAR via an audio track input.
In previous versions of SONAR, the keyboard shortcut for Play Event in the Loop Explorer view was Shift+Spacebar. Please note that this has changed to Ctrl+Shift+Spacebar in SONAR LE since Shift+Spacebar is now a global command for previewing the selected data.
low can cause clicks while rendering abrupt gain changes due to envelopes.
The audio configuration dialog (Options-Audio) has a checkbox "Enable MultiProcessing Engine" on the Advanced page. This checkbox is only active on multi-processing (or hyper-threaded) machines. When checked, the audio engine will use a dedicated worker thread for each CPU, and optimally distribute mixing and DSP tasks across multiple CPU's. You will notice significant performance benefits on true multi-processor systems with this option enabled.
MeterFramSizeMS=40 Setting this value to a lower value will make the meters record peak info for smaller time slices. However this can also increase the metering CPU and memory cost. * = although SONAR doesnt enforce a fixed value range, the recommended range should be between 10 and 200 milliseconds.
General
The following topics cover general issues in SONAR.
Audio, etc. If an external command-line encoder is installed on your machine, the Cakewalk External Encoder Config utility allows you to add the encoder to SONARs list of available file formats when exporting audio (File-Export-Audio). To use the utility, start SONAR and go to Tools-Cakewalk Ext Encoder Config, then specify the proper settings or the encoder you wish to use.
Each type of strip has different types of widgets on it as well which are identified by name. The following table shows the names of the widgets for each type of strip: Audio Track Volume Pan Trim Input Output Fx Aux Interleave MIDI Track Volume Pan Trim Input Output Fx Bus Volume Pan Contents of Widget Group Volume Slider Pan Slider Trim Slider Input Selector Output Selector Fx Bin Aux Send, Pan, Enable, Pre-Post switch Phase and Interleave switches Input Gain Slider Input Pan Slider MIDI Channel Picker MIDI Program Bank Picker MIDI Patch Picker MIDI Key Offset MIDI Time Offset
Chorus Reverb How the INI is formatted to reorder widgets A Key-Value pair is defined as: Wn=name
where n is the sort order, and name is the widget group name. The name is not case sensitive. Start with a section name for the type of strip you want to reorder widgets on. It looks like this for Audio Tracks: [Audio Track] Now, add the 8 entries that specify the widget order for Audio Tracks. Here is one example: W0=Volume W1=Pan W2=Interleave W3=Trim W4=FX W5=Aux W6=Output W7=Input Note: the layout order will revert to the hard-wired list if any of these scenarios are true: 1. 2. 3. 4. Any section is missing Any individual key is missing False value or name for a key Duplicate keys
All sections and keys must succeed, or SONAR reverts to the default hard-wired layout order. Example of working widget reordering entries In order to customize the control layout order, you can copy the sections below and paste them into CAKEWALK.INI. The layout below mimics the hard-wired layout. To reverse, for example, the Volume and Pan order, set W0=Pan and W1=Volume. These settings are loaded *ONCE* per strip when the strip is created, so you can for example make a change to the [MIDI Widgets] section and create another MIDI strip with the new layout (you don't have to restart the application), but all MIDI strips will have the same layout the next time you open the project. [Audio Widgets] W0=Volume W1=Pan
W2=Interleave W3=Trim W4=FX W5=Aux W6=Output W7=Input [Midi Widgets] W0=Volume W1=Pan W2=Trim W3=FX w4=Reverb w5=Chorus W6=Channel w7=Bank w8=Patch W9=Output W10=Input w11=Key w12=Time [Bus Widgets] W0=InputGain W1=InputPan W2=Volume W3=Pan W4=Output W5=Aux W6=FX W7=Interleave
SONAR LE has a CAKEWALK.INI variable that allows you to always display controls in the track header bars, regardless of whether a tracks are minimized or not. It goes in the [Wincake] section of CAKEWALK.INI. For example: [Wincake] TVWidgetsStickInHeader=1 When TRUE (value=1) widgets stay in the header bar regardless of the height of a track. Note: the following controls will never appear in the track header bar: Send widgets, Meters, and Vertical FX Bin.
PauseDuringSave should be set in the [WINCAKE] section of CAKEWALK.INI. Legal Values are: 0 (default): file is saved asynchronously while playback continues. The save operation may take longer than if the transport was not playing. 1: playback is paused for the duration of the file save operation. This allows the file save to proceed as fast as possible, resuming playback when completed. For example: [WINCAKE] PauseDuringSave=1
Known Issues
The following topics cover known issues in SONAR that may be addressed in the future.
QuickTime Issues
In order to import QuickTime files in SONAR LE, you must install both the filter AND QuickTime. Below are some other known QuickTime issues: QuickTime Import requires version 6.5.1 or higher of the QuickTime Player to be installed.
Adding MIDI Device May Break Control Surface Support and MIDI Key Bindings
When adding a new MIDI Device in Options-MIDI Devices, control surface support and MIDI key bindings may no longer work properly. Restarting SONAR will solve this problem.
MP3 Files With 256K Bit Rate May Not Play in SONAR LE
MP3 files that are created in Cakewalk MediaWorks version 1.0 with a setting of 256K, may play back as silence when imported into SONAR LE. This may also apply to MP3 files that are authored in SONAR LE at 44.1kHz, 16-bit, 256K joint stereo. Other bit rates should be fine.
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