Misc. optimizations

Support for AMD threadrippers.

Max CPU threads has been increased.

Sonar now supports CPUs with up to 256 threads as supported by the AMD EPYC.

Greatly improved plugin load balancing performance.

Increased hang detection default timeout to 1 minute from 30 secs to prevent false positives with some instruments.

Improved editing performance on projects with a large number of virtual instruments.

Several optimizations have been made to improve performance when editing clips or MIDI in heavily loaded projects.

The Now Time update frequency has been optimized to allow for smoother scrolling of the playhead marker during playback.

Improved VU meter responsiveness.

Optimizations to drawing efficiency in Console and Track view.

Optimization for Intel processors to reduce CPU load when streaming silence with certain plug-ins that generate denormals.

There are optimizations to playback start and seeking which reduce the latency before playback starts when starting the transport.

Improved and faster Nudge performance.

Improved multitrack synth playback efficiency to reduce CPU use in projects with many synth tracks.

Optimizations to streamline handling of large multitrack projects. Many common editing and streaming operations have been fine tuned to avoid expensive track iteration and are orders of magnitude faster as a result.

Improvements to synth rendering to prevent race conditions leading to dropped notes in high load situations.

The speed for archiving multiple tracks has been greatly improved by many orders of magnitude.

Improvements to prevent plugins from flooding message queue when loading projects.

Console view scrolling is improved.

Track split is now much faster when articulations are present.

Optimized redundant redraws of track scale.

MIDI drawing optimizations.

New Enable GPU Acceleration option in Preferences > Customization - Display that allows the Piano Roll view to use GPU acceleration. This option is disabled by default.

 

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New features