But with 8.5.2, nearly all of those banner features get improved, with additional bonuses, to boot. Matrix View, an ambitious new feature, was admittedly not entirely baked when it shipped, and saw a set of performance and functionality fixes with 8.5.1. As previewed back in September, 8.5’s banner features were a step sequencer, an arpeggiator, a Matrix View grid for triggering MIDI and audio clips (yes, reminiscent of a program that rhymes with Sable Bun Drive), a new sampled drum instrument, AudioSnap for tuning the timing of audio, and nice new effects strips. If 8.5 was beginning to feel like 9.0, 8.5.2 definitely does.įlash back for a moment to SONAR 8.5 and updates, which made enough of an impact among die-hard Cakewalk lovers that we started to see bizarre fan videos about it. The result is that SONAR 8.5.2 brings a mature version of some significantly-changed features, and an unusually significant amount of stuff for a “point” release. They’ve also listened to users and been thorough in fixing issues – some quite particular – in 8.5. (There’s a children’s story that goes this way.) The folks at Cakewalk have done what I think is a pretty amazing job of working through a big feature list, and throwing in additional goodies users get without even asking. The tricky thing about introducing a new feature is that you almost immediately hear from users about other features that would go well with that feature. Whether that’s good news depends on how you feel about FL and SONAR.) But you get a decidedly SONAR-like workflow, which feels nothing like Fruity Loops.
(Yes, it looks similar to FL Studio’s step sequencer. This would normally be a generic picture of an overview of the Track View or something, but… come on.
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