"Enhanced start page" in development - what do you feel should be there?

I use it everytime! And grouping of latest project lists is a great idea. Also the project state.

mudgel
Where did you hear this? Link please.

At bottom of what's new page for Everett release  - it seems they did not have a separate menu item anymore for "in development".
Initial quote was from there.
 
Just beside CCC 1.1
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Whats-New
 
 

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mudgel
Where did you hear this? Link please.

At bottom of what's new page for Everett release  - it seems they did not have a separate menu item anymore for "in development".
Initial quote was from there.
 
Just beside CCC 1.1
http://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Whats-New
 
 

Weird you know. I read that and it didn't even register. A senior moment.

I thought I kept up on things but I totally missed this one. Thanks for hi-lighting it. 

Dunno about that. Someone's already mentioned Studio One's start page, which does both of those things really well.
 

KPerry
Personally, I'd like to see it removed completely. Start up and splash screens get in the way and get turned off asap here.

me too

+1 something like StudioOne example.
ANYTHING more visual with access to important data without opening the entire project!
Image, Sample Rate / Bitdepth, etc.
and as mentioned, a checkbox "don't show this again" (reactivatable in prefs somewhere)

A start page is always a good shop window. Hey you might even get access to the forums in Sonar just what you always wanted right?

I think a faster way to locate projects that are currently in progress certainly makes sense, and there are other people in this thread who've mentioned it as something useful. Being able to enable/disable the start screen already exists, so I'm sure Cakewalk already has the recipe for that.
 
However, I think the point of the OP is what could be done that would make the Start screen helpful. Certainly being notified that an update is available would be good. Organizing your own templates in a more customized way than the current list would be helpful. If you have several interfaces, selecting the one you want to use for the project and the sample rate without having to dig into preferences would be cool...and I'd like to see a little meter that would indicate if you were getting MIDI when you hit your keyboard. Cakewalk used to do a tip of the day, I don't see any downside to having a short tip based on all the "gee, I didn't know that, cool" forum posts for shortcuts and such.
 
Think about the forum threads were people are upset that some preferred setup doesn't persist, until someone turns them on to the normal.cwt template. That could certainly be made more obvious, and more choices for your "normal" template would be useful too. "Normal" for songwriting is different from normal for narration. Yes, you can save different templates and call them up, but if all the things you needed to set up a project quickly were on one page, I see value for that...sort of a "preferences" page not for the technology, but for your projects.
 
@ampfixer: Yes, there are other things that are higher on my personal priority list. But if the start page became genuinely helpful and made it easier/faster to get going, I can see its value. It all depends on...well, the answers that crop up in this thread, and if enough of them make people go "Yeah, that would be really helpful."

Anderton
Cakewalk used to do a tip of the day, I don't see any downside to having a short tip based on all the "gee, I didn't know that, cool" forum posts for shortcuts and such.

That used to be in loads of applications, didn't it? Can't remember the last time I saw it. I wonder when and why that fell out of favour as a design idea.
 
I never used to switch them off, in any application. They'd either tell you something new, or remind you of something you'd forgot.

Btw that last post sponsored by Rapture Pro.
 

John T

Anderton
Cakewalk used to do a tip of the day, I don't see any downside to having a short tip based on all the "gee, I didn't know that, cool" forum posts for shortcuts and such.

That used to be in loads of applications, didn't it? Can't remember the last time I saw it. I wonder when and why that fell out of favour as a design idea.
 
I never used to switch them off, in any application. They'd either tell you something new, or remind you of something you'd forgot.

Word use to do that as well. IIRC when Microsoft stopped doing it, so did SONAR. Maybe there was some Magical Code that made it easy to do. I dunno, I just use the stuff.

Doktor Avalanche
Well it stands to reason. Sonar will end up being the store to buy stuff. CCC will be the delivery mechanism. Start page is the beginning of this. In the end you won't need an external browser to buy stuff from the cake store. This is all part of the integration plan... Hearsay of course.

Well, that sounds quite convenient, to me. I mean, the option to not buy stuff remains either way, so what the hey.