"Commitment to Awesomeness" - Upgrading/Replacing Archaic Parts Of The Product

so now that Cakewalk is "Committed To Awesomeness", I thought maybe we can add our ideas here for parts of the product that are just cumbersome and archaic.
 
Hopefully the bakers will see this thread.

I will start the list off with:
 
1.  ACT
2.  Drum Maps
 

jfcomposer
3.  Staff view.  

yup - another good one.

bz2838
4. Chord Track
 

yes - i would love to have a chord track... and maybe it can 'auto-detect' the chords either from audio or midi.

I'm curious what tasks you perform in plugin manager and why it's important to you. It's a tool that one normally only uses to create new layouts.

msorrels
Plugin manager
 
It really falls down handling the 2036 plugins Cakewalk thinks I have, since I install 32/64/vst2/vst3 of everything for flexibility.  That constant reloading of everything when you just open the properties on a plugin makes it so painful to use it isn't funny.  Not to mention the extreme load times switching between the categories.  The UI is also very unproductive with it's bizarre excluded UI handling options and of course the whole menu editor is painfully unusable.
 

IMO the Sonar plugin manager is one of the best out there.   There are some minor interface ergonomic issues but it's really versatile. Little tweeks to the interface would be good. 

To be able to delete a send in 2 clicks without having to go into the drop down and select delete would be great
 

To have a cascaded sends destination menu would be great. Like, hardware outputs, buses, sidechain inputs, aux tracks, patchpoints. After having inserted a bunch of buses and sc capable plugs it gets pretty cumbersome to scroll to select what I need. Even just my 18 outputs interface (and then mono and stereo) makes a sizable list.

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
I'm curious what tasks you perform in plugin manager and why it's important to you. It's a tool that one normally only uses to create new layouts.

If you had 2000+ plugins you'd be running the manager a lot more often too.  Seriously though, a great number of plugins have issues with VST3, which require disabling the VST3 version.  It's also fairly common for updates to have issues and require figuring out why a plugin isn't showing up inside Sonar - while the plugin manager is weak it's still faster than regedit.  I also have to rename a number of NI plugins since there is no way to tell which version is which with some of the Kontakt plugins.  Sonar loves to lose the renames so I end up with 3 copies of Kontakt 5 instead of the more detailed name with the number of output channels.
 
The layout controls I would use all the time if they scaled up to handle the number of plugins I have. I bought the MenuMagic app to try and help, but it's not really up to handling that many plugins either.
 
Recent releases of Sonar have also begun doing a crazy enumerating all my plugin registry entries the first time I right click on a audio or MIDI clip.  At first I thought Sonar was hung, eventually it finishes walking the entire registry and brings up the right click menu.  Only does it the first time after Sonar is started.  I think this "feature" was added around January.  Not sure it's 100% related to the Plugin Manager but it is really annoying.  Only figured out it was plugin scanning because I ran Sysinternals Procmon and watched it enumerate every single plugin on the first right click on a clip.
 
I still have DX 32-bit plugins (using a 32-64 wrapper) that I bought in the 90's installed and working.  I pretty much refuse to give up any software lightly.  I get the impression no one at Cakewalk has ever used Sonar with more than a few dozen plugins.
 

Oh, I just thought of another one (The plugin manager discussion reminded me)

Is it possible for the "add track" button to have an option to use the synth plugin layout as defined by the plugin manager rather than list plugin by manufacturer?  It must be bedlam for you guys who have 2549 plugins to try find the one your after using the "add track" button in it current format.

ACT
Drum Maps
Reorganization of menus. Ex. Insert measures  is in the Project menu, not the Insert menu....
 
I actually went for the lifetime updates figuring that Cakewalk HAS to improve a lot of issues like  ACT, Notation etc if it hopes to compete in the Mac world. They have to be better than the competition to get sales in that environment.

Why not include everything else mentioned here? While they are at it fix all the bugs (real and perceived) too. I fail to see the point of this thread but if it makes some one happy, fine by me.

Actually, an updated eula should clarify all these ridiculous questions!