Maybe a bug

Wanted to export my track to share with other musicians. I wanted quick mp3. Selected export entire mix and after rendering file Ifound file with 2 seconds. Ok, disabled hp and lp filters in export to mp3 window. Now I've got a file with my audio exported but without any of virtual instruments audio. Do I really need to bounce them as audio before export? I think for quick bounces it should be fast and without such problems.

Feature improvement: SAME TIME FORMATS

I consider useful that "Selection", "Loop" and "Punch In/Out" displays in the Control Bar should change their time formats as we change the main "Current now time" format. The same would happen with the ruller time format as we change the Track Pane Header time format.
 
Revision April 23, 2018:
As I could experience in many other DAWs and video editors, It doesn't seem to be necessary to have dedicated displays for "Loop" and "Punch In". It is enough with the "Select From" and "Select Thru" displays (plus a third for "Selection Lenght") and keeping the two existing buttons to "set loop points to selection" and "set punch points to selection". This way we can save space in the control bar for expanding collapsed tools.
Thanks Cakewalk for asking the users.

meng
 
It would help very much if people could share (with as much or as little detail as they want) the top 5 things they would love to see or to be improved in TDFKAS from SONAR - the more specific the better. Or if there are things that you feel we are sorely lacking versus other options in the market, it's all helpful to know. Everyone's workflow and priorities are not the same, so please stay civil! 
 

Right now, because of the limitations listed here, I won't be starting new projects in Sonar.
 
1. Improved VST time sync - resync all the VST plugins after pause/start even if you are not resuming on a measure. StudioOne already does that.
2. Improved latency compensation (it can go crazy up to 20 sec). Same thing, this is much better handled in StudioOne
3. More reactive UI
4. Arranger track, like StudioOne. 
 

Fl studio used to be the biggest electronic DAW but Ableton has easily overtaken it! Just go on youtube and type in electronic tutorials and its all nearly Ableton live and i love it too! Just bought 10 and its brilliant...

Make sonar8.5 pro version one by using vst3 in sonar8.5 instead of sonar home edition.
Please do not get the version now, just release the sonar8.5pro version at a low price and let vst3 use only the existing 8.5. I'm begging you.
Or, if you change the theme in the current version, you can return to the 8.5-time interface and use the 8.5 screenshots and features.

ON SECOND THOUGHT, DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING YET. EVERYBODY WANTS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. GIVE US ALL A CHANCE TO PERCOLATE FOR A COUPLE MONTHS. THE SOFTWARE IS FINE THE WAY IT IS. WE NEED CONTROL SURFACES, NOT RADICAL UI CHANGES.

Cakewalk Sound Center (Synth Rack) and addictive drums are missing from my plug ins. I can still find them in SONAR platinum. My request is please don't dismantle command center and Sonar prematurely. We all need to continue to open both the old and new program to be able to tell what works and what doesn't.

I've been thinking some more ... and would like to voice my opinion. Now that CbB has become a x64 only DAW, which I presume is the way of the future ... and ultimately the only alternative ... In my opinion it is critically important to make sure that a well functioning bridge to 32-bit plugs is in place. 
 
I would like to see CbB turn its legacy history into a feature. To benefit from it's past achievements, not to throw it in the garbage as old fashioned and un-modern. A DAW that cherishes it's legacy and glorious innovative past. 
 
I also think it is important to make the support for a vast range of legacy MIDI equipments more accessible, and a feature ... as I understand it Azlow ? has done a lot of work in this area for controllers, and it might be a good move to get him aboard on this part ... if he's not already. I also think some kind of cooperation with SoundQuest when it comes to MIDI equipment, and integration to the SoundQuest program, could be advantageous for both. 
 
Further more I would like to see the support for DX plugins and DXi instruments make a obvious overt comeback. Reaper, another great fairly recent DAW has it out in the open, so why would CbB hide and be seem close to abandon it ? Doesn't make sense to me.  
 
To attract and recruit new users, I think special focus should be made in future versions to cater to the Modular Crowd as well as Mobile users (Apple and Android). Myself would like to see easier integration with my myriads of iPad musical apps and CbB, I haven't gone modular yet ... but it's coming.
 
Thank you for the opportunity to provide feedback ... all the best.
 
Regards, Sven

easy Varispeed, please!

Please make the video engine better... Please please please... Everyone working to picture for Publicity, film etc is suffering with the present video engine. Sonar is 10 years behind. Sonar is loosing users because anybody serious about writing to picture has to migrate to another daw (any other) to have a stable and professional work flow. When a movie is imported in Sonar, it is locked at the beginning of the timeline with no possibility of moving it, also, when you play Sonar past the video in the time line, things freeze up and get sluggish... Sonar has Codex incompatibilities with popular video formats... It is just a mess... please fix this

Please return to simpler times. It makes no sense to have two effects slots for each track: usual fx insert area AND pro Channel... It takes space and is redundant. I Sonar commits to pro channel, then make it simple and universal and optimize it. Automation... There again, I played around with Ableton live's automation and everything is so much more straight forward. 
Sonar Platinum tried to mimic a Recording Studio as much as possible, with fancy graphics and rackmounted units... But we are past this now. You guys have to decide which side of the fence you want to be. This has been Sonar's problem. Either you are a bad ass composition tool (Ablelton), or a jack of all trades production daw (Pro Tools). If you want to stay on the fence, then you better have an harmonious package.. more harmonious the Sonar Platinum was.

My feature request is to ignore everything zblip2@gmail.com has to say. Cakewalk is near perfect exactly as it is. After using Studio One for a few weeks, there are a few things I would like to incorporate into Cakewalk. In Studio One 3, there are more options for shaping an automation envelope. Tools similar to a bezier tool (I think that's what it's called) in Photoshop and Illustrator. I thought that was great. I also like the idea that someone said of having one MIDI file feed more than one soft synths. The other thing that I like from Studio One was nestable track folders. Only being able to go one layer deep is not ideal. 
 
None of these limitations, however, changes in any way the fact that Sonar/Cakewalk is the best DAW on the planet in my book. The brief time I spent with Studio One only reinforces that. 

I would also like to add, please:
 
- Ability to move multiple tracks at once.  Currently to arrange tracks, you have to have incredible foresight, or incredible patience.  
 
Please please and thank you!
Dave

I decided I would look about for a new daw when Sonar lost support after looking I chose Reaper. Reaper has a very simple way to adjust the tempo of audio files and leave the pitch as it was (or change it if you want). This comes in very useful for say slowing tempo at the end of a song albeit initially recorded (or generated) at a constant tempo.

I found editing audio such as cutting or copying and pasteing far simpler in Reaper. The way crossovers and or merging the items are done is far simpler.

I would keep Reaper just to perform these tasks even though I prefer Cakewalk.

Here's a quick feature that could be added to a future version of Cakewalk:
A simple latency meter that displays what the current latency value is (in milliseconds)
They do this now in Presonus Studio One (version 3).