Reference Guide

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Retain Cakewalk Preferences dialog

If you choose to retain or migrate your preferences from a previous version of Cakewalk, the

SONAR installer finds the existing Cakewalk.ini files on your system. The list of Cakewalk.ini

files appears in the Retain Cakewalk Preferences dialog box. You may choose one from this list.

The preferences and settings stored in the older version's Cakewalk.ini and TTSseq.ini files

are then transferred to the identically named configuration files for Cakewalk. Cakewalk migrates

certain preferences to the Windows Registry rather than to the Cakewalk.ini file.

When you migrate your preferences, SONAR will:

1. Locate the Data directory (WaveData folder) used by your previous Cakewalk installations and

direct SONAR to use that folder for its audio storage and retrieval as well.

2. Automatically import any custom Instrument Definitions you used in your previous Cakewalk

version.

3. Automatically import other custom settings you have made in various Cakewalk menus and INI

files.

Revert dialog

The File > Revert command opens the Revert dialog box, which lets you open an earlier version of

the current project. Click the version of the file that you want to open. If you then save the earlier

version, it becomes than latest version. To use the Revert feature, file versioning must be enabled in

Edit > Preferences > File - Advanced.

Safe Mode dialog

Opening a file in safe mode opens the safe mode dialog box, which asks you, one plug-in at a time,

which of the file’s plug-ins to open each. If you think one of the plug-ins is preventing the file from

opening, choose not to load that plug-in. You can also try loading only one plug-in, closing the file,

and then loading 2 plug-ins the next time you open the file, etc., until you isolate the bad plug-in.