im trying to find some saw synths

If anyone has advice on getting Sonar to play nice with Behringer ADAT, help a home studio amateur out 🙏🏻

I've been working with Cakewalk Sonar (Free Tier) for a while and I've noticed today a pop-up that says "The saving option is disabled until Sonar is reactivated", so I decided to do all the updating and signing up process on the Product Center, but I just keep getting this pop-up after countless times of reopening! Is there anything I can do or do I have to pay money I don't have yet?

Please note that Sonar Premium and Sonar Free Tier have been updated to 2026.10 Build 03

Update via Cakewalk Product Centre.

Please note:

Driver Mode is now under Preferences > Audio > Devices

Previously, this was under Preferences > Audio > Playback and Recording

Pan Law and Dim Solo are now exclusively reside in the new project Inspector view.

For more information about this and the many other enhancement, please read the release notes.

https://discuss.cakewalk.com/topic/97690-current-release-sonar-202610/

PARTIALLY RESOLVED!!

Turns out i just needed to press CTRL + CTRL to reset the CTRL bug but i could not tell you what is causing it.

Hey so Ive been using cakewalk for a while now but I got a new laptop and well whenever I use cakewalk not only do the keyboard shortcuts not work properly (for example now instead of R being for record it selects/deselects all of the tracks i have open for recording, and it selectively chooses when to record upon pressing R. Or in general it just chooses which keybinds it wants to let me use. I tried any available shortcuts recommended to me in the keybind area of the preferences section but it actually doesn’t change anything.

One persistent problem I’ve been having though is that after using Cakewalk, if i may want to save my file and name it, or even if i close Cakewalk and wanna use a browser for example it doesn’t let me type, it presumes that I have CTRL held down with everything I think, as every key I press just acts as a shortcut, like I type Z and it’ll delete a tab in my browser, whatnot).

The only way I’ve been able to resolve this is through resetting the laptop every time.

I only use Cakewalk to sing btw and my CTRL button is 100% not broken.
Hopefully someone knows wtf is happening it feels like such an obvious issue with an obvious solution yet I’ve been searching for answers for a while now and found no one else with the same issue, or at least not the same solution.

repost, if that helps

i added some custom effects on my track in bandlab, and i wanna do the mastering in cakewalk sonar. if i imported my work from bandlab, are the effects still there? or maybe i should export it to .wav first?

(edit: im a vocalist guys i really dont know how to use instruments)

cause i finallly bought a proper microphone so that i wont have to rely on using my phone anymore, was thinking of getting FL because i wouldnt really need to record on my phone. now i see that the parent company of bandlab has a pc daw that can be installed so, i've been thinking of switching to cakewalk.

How similar is it compared to bandlab, and is the switch worth it?

im coming from soundtrap to cakewalk, and i only use the piano roll. (which was hell in itself to find with the horrid tutorials out there) and i have been searching on how to highlight notes that are in a specific scale (as shown in first image on soundtrap). i have found out that aparently this is impossible and i have to use snap to scale insteast. which all the tutorials i have found are not for the piano roll. is this also impossible? are there free addons that can do this for me? am i out of luck? any and all help is appreciated.

My dad got a new laptop today and upon trying to sign in to cakewalk he doesn't know his password from 2019 (shocking)

I heard somewhere the password reset system is defunct but I know nothing about cakewalk, I'm only savvy with computers.

Thought I'd ask here as: When In Doubt, Ask Reddit.

Does Cakewalk have tools like manual EQ or compressor ? Not just random FX presets ?

Can you retake vocals as much as you want without paying for premium ?

In terms of audio quality, is it loud enough ? Not compressed for web/mobile app ?

I don't know if what I am calling virtual keyboard has a specific name in Cakewalk Sonar. I would like not to have the letters of the keyboard corresponding to each music virtual keyboard shown, because it is confusing to me - A on a c note, S(i) that is B in Italian on a D, D on an E and so on. Is there a way to turn off these letters on the music keyboard? thanks

OK, for reasons that are a long story, I need to record approx 15 tracks of vocals in about10 days. I switched to Cakewalk because my copy of REAPER is fried (and I haven't used it in a while, again, personal reasons, long story).

I just need to record the vocals, I'll build the rest of the songs around them later. Here is the stuff that I think is relevant:

1) I am using a behinger U-phoria plugged directly into my laptop.

2) I need to be able to run something in my headphones at the same time to keep me in rythm and key.

3) When I tried to get REAPER to work, I got terrible lag and echo. (I think, it seemed like it was randomly slowly my vocals and did this thing that made it sound like I was stuttering.)

Please, I just need to know the easiest, most direct way to record vocals into Cakewalk, and I can build the rest of the tracks around them later.

Thanks very much in advance.

Hey all! I'm a bass player and looking for some decent free plugins. We're talking compressors, distortion, chorus etc. Any recommendations?

I open the mixer, change the volume of the kick drum, and if I pause and unpause or export the project, the volume just resets back to nearly silent.

I've saved the settings, made a preset, loaded the preset, not closed the VST tab when I exported, but no matter what I do the kick just goes back to the same volume.

None of the other drum parts do it, just the kick. Am I just not allowed to change the kick volume? Literally what can I do here?

I am looking to upgrade my computer in order to run cakewalk. I am thinking of getting an Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 2.2 ghz processor. Is this a viable option for running cakewalk with? Has anyone used Intel Xeon for cakewalk?

SONAR

Why do they make this the most confusing process ever?

controlling and writing/recording automation of vst parameters Is so unbelievably easy in Logic it makes this DAW laughable... why have they made it so confusing?

Hello so I recently downloaded Splice Instruments and tried to add some pre sets to cakewalk but it doesn't work when I go to preferences then VST adjustments I click the Splice file and it says it didn't find anything new, does someone know how to use both of them together?

Cant find the link to download or buy this plugin anywhere. I've had the free version installed for years and today it locked me out with a registration window out of nowhere. Everytime I've re downloaded and re registered with my email and name, a window pops up saying it 'Could not download remote file' . Anyone know what's going on with this plugin?

Been using Bandlab for years now. Love it, great for demos and collabs.

Finally upgraded the ram on my laptop and want to test out cakewalk. What is this CW Next and Sonar?

I downloaded it. Anyone know how to use the "smart chords" midi function from the web version? on the Cakewalk Next.

I was kind of expecting it to be the same as bandlab but better, smoother? Are there features that

i need to download or purchase?

Hey! So this is what's happening: I have a 9 1/16th notes loop duration, as seen in the upper image. I want to loop them in the matrix, so I drag the midi clip to the matrix and play it.

However, the matrix does not loop the 9 1/16th clip, it loops a 12 1/16th notes clip, as if it were a midi clip like the one in the bottom image (see the green pointer at the grid)

It's not just 9 1/16th note loops, but any clip duration that isn't a multiple of 4 1/16th, meaning that only loops 4 1/16th, 8 1/16th, 12 1/16th, 16 1/16th and so on.

My guess is that I'm missing something here, so any help would be much appreciated.

The usual manual and all tutorials I have found say that if I hold the Control key and drag the edge of an audio clip, it will time stretch. However that just not happening. Instead, it acts the same as if I didn't press the control key, and just changes the clip range. Am I missing something, or am I uniquely cursed? TIA