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Hey Larry,

Thanks for the detailed response! Sounds like you are a SONAR Pro!! Much appreciated!!!

I am hesitant to do anything with SONAR now that they have no more phone support and you can't get through. Also, I did not go with rolling updates when it was time to renew so my version is about a year old. However, it has all I need and I don't need anything else. When I downloaded it, I choose the "both versions" option but apparently I only got 64, which is ok, that is all I need.

Here are my concerns.

1.) You are right about command center. I went there yesterday to "install" from from my previous version and it just started downloading a bunch of stuff with no options or checkboxes. I stopped it immediately. But I have no idea where the stuff that started "went." It is not in downloads as an incomplete download and it is not in any cakewalk folder anywhere. Hmmmmm. Maybe temp files??? Maybe nowhere????

2.) I figured there was a 100% chance if I continued I would get the new version and it would wipe out what I have and they would hold me prisoner and make me pay again.



3.) Ditto for website site, my account. No sure how they work. And you can't talk to them.

4. TTS-1 64 is wonky enough in Sonar 64. It is the only program I have that crashes Sonar if you add it to an existing template. In order to use it, I have to start a fresh board and add it in first before I add other soft synth tracks or it will not play pretty with other plugins in the sandbox.

5.) I don't use it that much and only use it in Sonar for some stuff, and Aria is fine for BIAB.

6.) So, I am kinda hesitant about fooling around with something that might screw up my entire system while I am trying to finish an album.

7. I don't know if the newer version of Sonar (the latest version) works with Windows 7. There seems to be some debate about that and I am not sure. That would be a major heart attack.

8.) I DO appreciate your detailed and kind synopsis though.


If you have any insights into what happens when you go to my accounts and reinstall what you already have that would be helpful. If it truly reinstalls the old version which was Windows 7 compatible a year ago, cool. But if not I am going to stay away from any and all buttons at this point.*

Thanks!


* I know a lot of people will be saying "you have to go to Windows 10" on and on, but one of my neighbors built some of the original mainframes at IBM and he tells me not to go near it. He says it's the equivalent of a telephone-based operating system and inferior to Windows 7. He can build a computer from scratch in the dark with his eyes closed in one day and appears to know what he is talking about--and is one of those classic old school guys. Really funny dude. Surrogate Grandpa type.

Not making any changes until I know a little more besides the conventional wisdom.



PS. To be on the safe side I let Mainframe make a backup of my computer and OS. (He's my computer guy. Very convenient.) He told me that if it ever crashed he could rebuild one to take it's place in three hours and no one would ever know the difference, except the one that he built by hand would be 100 times more powerful than the one I bought. When I asked him.."But...wait...won't everybody out there in cloud land know I have new computer now...??" he just walked away and started laughing really hard and said "Youngters." Pretty funny.

Thanks man!!!