A comment on the future of Sonar and especially X3...

I had sorta forgotten this but IIRC Cakewalk hired Benstat about a year or so ago. For those who don't know Benstat created a LOT of mods for X1 with Sonar Plus: http://www.sonarplus.co.uk/Pages/About.aspx
 
I think this bodes well for the future of the Sonar X series.. and certainly should dispell and thoughts that Roland may be discontinuing Sonar. Surely they would not have hired Ben if they were not planning to use him and his ideas. It would make no sense at all otherwise. If they were not going to use him and his ideas and were going to go in another direction they would surely have left him out there to make the best of what existed because... well, why should they care? If you think about it... this bodes very well for the future of the Sonar X series and I imagine that we will see Ben's fingerprints all over X3 and perhaps somewhat in any b or c versions of X2... but I think they will save most of his work for X3. I would.
 
Anyway... a little food for thought. Some positive thought!!
 
Julien

I had no worries about the future of Sonar anyway!!

I feel like if Sonar were to be ditched, it would simply become what Adobe Audition was, a re-invention of Cool Edit Pro.

I was just thinking the other day about how they hired that mod guy.  I hope he's still there.  Sonar's design needs extensive fine-tuning after the X1 overhaul.  There should be a separate "skin" for touch, so all of us non-touchies can enjoy a more efficient workspace.

Mod Bod
Maybe Ben can help them come up with ways to turn things off in SONAR X3.  Things like that blasted Docker which seems to dock things that I don't want docked when I'm in a mad hurry.

 
Totally agree!  What a flaming nuisance, hate it, hate it!
Please let's have an option in Prefs.  (Most will then switch it off I am guessing....)

Mod Bod
Maybe Ben can help them come up with ways to turn things off in SONAR X3.  Things like that blasted Docker which seems to dock things that I don't want docked when I'm in a mad hurry.

 
Totally agree!  What a flaming nuisance, hate it, hate it!
Please let's have an option in Prefs.  (Most will then switch it off I am guessing....)

Sorry about the multiple posts.  Kept getting "unexpected error, post later".
Conclusion: this new forum software is total sh*te.

Yes, I know, but that should be the way to dock if you intend it to, not the default in my opinion.  Most times I, and I would think a lot of others, just want to move the PRV (or whatever) to a slightly different place and then, 'pop' the darn thing gets docked.  There are many similar behaviour options in Prefs (eg what do you want when dragging a clip) and I think this should be one.

Skyline_UK

Mod Bod
Maybe Ben can help them come up with ways to turn things off in SONAR X3.  Things like that blasted Docker which seems to dock things that I don't want docked when I'm in a mad hurry.

 
Totally agree!  What a flaming nuisance, hate it, hate it!
Please let's have an option in Prefs.  (Most will then switch it off I am guessing....)

I never use the Multidock.
 
I'd love to be able to get rid of the waste of space it occupies even when it's closed.
 
And the same goes for the Browser for that matter. Why on earth do we have to see anything of it when it's closed
 
 

mike_mccue
 
 
Cakewalk's hiring of Ben reminded me of when General Motors bought up the patents for the electric car.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Ouch.

I felt the same way.  They regained control of the interface again.

On the other hand, I love the dock.  Everything but the timeline goes into it on my righthand screen - console, effects, synths.  I also divide the timeline so the broswer goes over there.  It makes it real simple for a simple boy.  Two things I do wish for:  the ability to drag tabs w/in the dock and a matched 23 inch screen for the dock screen.  Right now it is a little short at 20 inches.
 
But yea, there is no reason for the dock not to have a preference setting.
 
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SteveStrummerUK
I'd love to be able to get rid of the waste of space it occupies even when it's closed.
 
And the same goes for the Browser for that matter. Why on earth do we have to see anything of it when it's closed

You can completely remove the Browser and Inspector in X2 now. At this time, the MultiDock cannot be removed unless DuckBar is installed.