Cakewalk Updates Sonar 8.5

Feature Enhancements

AudioSnap:

• Tempo Detection:

o Improved tempo detection algorithm.
o Added strength indicator to average tempo candidates.
o Added option to set clip tempo to original project tempo.

• Clip Tempo Maps:

o Average tempo updates while editing the tempo map.
o Anchored beat markers lock measure/beat markers to transients.
o Automatic beat marker remapping while editing tempo map.
o Average Tempo picker on Palette to change multiple clips at a time.
o Improved behavior for split clips.

• New resolution settings to set tempo changes on every beat, measure or clip.

• Auto stretch mode added to Clip Follows Project command, emulates AudioSnap1 auto-stretch behavior.

• New Extract Groove and Apply Groove buttons to match the groove of one clip to another.

• Snap Settings can now be used to snap both audio and MIDI events to audio transients in selected tracks.

Issues Addressed

AudioSnap:

• Improved stability.

• Improved rendering:

o Render Mode “Apples to” set to “Tracks” did not always apply to all clips on a track.
o Bouncing using Radius Mix sometimes flat-lined clips.

• Clip Follows Project:

o Is now undo-able.
o Toggling sometimes modified slip edits.

• Clip Tempo Map ruler sometimes stayed on after disabling AudioSnap.

• Addresses various graphical behaviors with transient markers, Clip Tempo Maps and AudioSnap Palette button states.

• Show Pool Lines setting was not persisted in project files.

General:

• Arpeggiator sometimes stopped working after a bounce or freeze operation.

• BitBridge servers defaulted to 1 after VST scan.

• SONAR would sometimes crash when accessing a Windows 7 Homegroup from the Media Browser.

• Improved stability when switching driver modes.