Originally Posted by lingyai
Have any Sonar by Cakewalk users tried Prism? Its product page states that it works with it, being an ARA 2-Supporting DAW, but when I try o load it into Sonar, I get an error message stating "ARA host isn't detected". Have reached out to the developer. Meanwhile, have any other Sonar users seen this?

A second question, for those who've gotten it to work, regardless of your DAW how would you rate it against the new BIAB feature's take? I've been midi-fying polyphonic audio with Melodyne for a good while, but success has been mixed ; sometimes very competent, other times, ghost notes galore and a pain to clean up, even when the signal is, as recommended, clean and dry. I must say the Prism demo video makes it look like potential holy grail

Not sure how Sonar is using ARA2 these days but in Studio One Pro I have to insert Prism as a Event FX on the selected track. Melodyne and some other ARA apps work different than that in Studio One.

I saved this track from BIAB RT "All RealTracks Demo! Guitar, Bass, Pedal Steel BBPiano_Real 364 Guitar, Acoustic, Fingerpicking Ev 065_SingleRender_DragDrop". I used Prism inside of Studio One Pro convert the wave to midi. I then used a Ample Martin guitar VSTI to play the midi file. I must say as a guitar player myself it did a very good job. Make sure it is single instrument and of good quality for the best results.

However I tried different stuff and it was not perfect and would need a bunch of editing for sure. BIAB has a lot of transcribed midi with some of the newer real tracks that are actually quite good.

BIAB 2026 Ultrapack- Studio One Pro 7 Windows 11, Mac Mini M4 with Logic Pro 11, Melodyne Studio, Luna Pro