Start screen to show which drive the file is on.

Wow, Meng... thanks for opening this up! I am in awe of the astute ideas posted above and can only agree without adding the same things over again. I will insert these:
 
Right now it seems that *only* the Mercury theme has the ability to change the track controls color. All other themes just change the color of the vertical bar at the far left in track view. I also want to change the color of the track marker ellipsis to bright yellow... the faded gray that is current gets visually lost. I have done this in track editor but then the Mercury style track color goes away and I am left with vertical bar color and yellow ellipses. I want both!
 
I would like a new DAW announcement for my birthday, April 6... clock's ticking, Meng! 

1. Studio One lets you have 1 midi file trigger multiple VSTi's.  ive seen workarounds using input echo and recording on fly but thats nonsense to me.  i just want 1 file to run through 2 VSTi's without having to arm this one and record that one, etc.  If there was a simple way to select the VSTi's input as being any midi track on the track view, that would be awesome.
 
2. Reaper has a really cool range slider for velocity dynamics in the midi editor.  when you select a range of midi notes and open the velocity tab, the slider lets you flatten or randomize the velocities of the selected notes on the fly.  it's very helpful and super quick to randomize things like hi-hats.  ive used the midi scripts/function that are currently available, but to me, they seem very inconsistent and i have to fiddle with them a million times just to get something descent when wanting to randomize note velocity.  having a simple dynamics slider is cut and dry in my opinion.
 
3. one bug i get all the time is when i save a track template that uses a drum map, it almost never ports over to a new project when i use that template.  i always have to go onto the track and pick the drum map again.  routing and everything else saves properly, but the map always changes. to some default in the map manager

Thanks for the opportunity to input.
 
1. create software which will make it easy to integrate the most popular DAW controllers without having to configure them manually. 
 
2. If you are keeping the Matrix view and see that as the platform to invest in for this area of the product give it a radical update.
 
3. A specific tool for arrangement I suppose this could be part of matrix view
 
4. I find the GUI to pro channel quite fiddly it might be nice to open this out abit so that all the options are more visible.
 
All the best of luck with the new Sonar

1. Bring .cwb and track templates up to date with Aux tracks etc. and track templates need to save sends
i2. Better drum mapping interface as well as Excel export/Import
3. Introduce true song arranging along the lines of Studio One/Reaper
4. Allow folders in Console View and give collapse/expand capability
5. Folders in Folders

Thanks a million, Meng. 
 
My requests are rather simple. (For the most part.)
 
1) Add a 4 band EQ to the mixer channels. A good one.
2) Please FIX Audio Snap. It never worked right. 
3) All around fixes and tweaks. TDFKAS has always been the best one out there IMO but it can be even better now.
 
That's it for now. If I think of anything else I'll come back and add it.
 
EDIT: 4) "Clean Audio Folder." Needs to be more accurate and get rid of all unwanted audio files.I know there's a workaround but to have this feature work like it was designed to work would be great. Thanks again

• I will echo the request for a updates to Staff Notation - or integration with external tools. As has been mentioned, and I imagine Noel is aware, there were apparently talks with a notation developer to bring a new notation / scoring feature to what was then SONAR.
• I think the MusicXML import/export needs to be updated with the latest standards (which might actually work along with the previous item).
• a more universal control surface editor or better universal control surface editor for things like the VS-700, only universal (so I don't have to choose the Mackie Control Interface for my controller / synth [MX-49]).
• Bring the MIDI support upto the latest MIDI specification just recently ratified.
• Bouncing a MIDI track to audio doesn't line up the events accurately - that will need to be fine tuned. To clarify - if you bounce MIDI to audio, then play the audio and the MIDI together, they are slightly out of time from one another. 

Thank you for listening and giving us a place to provide feedback.

#1 a Big One issue / bug for me...
It was acknowledged by previous Sonar bug team as a "bug" about 5 month ago but was never repaired.
When I do vocal take lanes, new material is placed in random "empty spots" comping.
That is ok...
BUT it would also record new material to MUTED take lanes if they have empty space.
If the take lane is MUTED by user, It should stay MUTED. Sometimes I would have 50+ audio items in tracks and when new audio is recorded to muted take lane it drives me mad to locate it, and delete other items within take lanes except the new recording. 
If new bug team is proactive and responsible, please look into it. If you need, I will gladly share correspondence with previous bug team.
 
Hopeful and passionate user.
Thank you!
 

Another one... I never liked take lanes. Waaay back (mebbe PA9 or SONAR 1XL) when I was looping and doing multi takes, I could set it to *make* a new track and store take there. 5 takes would equal 5 tracks and each but most recent would be muted. This was (for me) *much* easier to work with than lanes. If there is a way to set this behavior in SPlat, I haven't found it. If it's there, please tell me, peeps. Otherwise, consider this a feature request. 

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Another one... I never liked take lanes. Waaay back (mebbe PA9 or SONAR 1XL) when I was looping and doing multi takes, I could set it to *make* a new track and store take there. 5 takes would equal 5 tracks and each but most recent would be muted. This was (for me) *much* easier to work with than lanes. If there is a way to set this behavior in SPlat, I haven't found it. If it's there, please tell me, peeps. Otherwise, consider this a feature request. 

Take Lanes are non negotiable for me.  They are absolutely brilliant if you actually use them how they were intended.  Maybe make it an option to turn on or off if people don't want to use them.  

Thank you!!!
1- Fix the bugs (Freeze is broken, surround is broken, ect.) 3d party plugin relationships.
2 - The automation is very clunky need a complete overhaul. ( Maybe also have a checkmark for the items needed and ability to remove the pain in the ass lanes with too much clicking. In Sonar 8.5 there were many removed features I'd like back.
3-Use of icons, please bring back the icons.
4- audio snap is very cumbersome could be simpler and more effective.
5- Improve workflow is so important to me. Anyplace you can remove clicking and speed up wk flow. So many 3 or 4 clicks to do something that should take 1 click.
 
Very excited to see the progress!!

Hi. Long-time Cakewalk/Sonar User here...

1) Bugs!!! They all must go... It is a matter of integrity and should be any companies top priority, especially for software that has been around as long as Sonar has... and which has been under constant development (aka: Rolling Updates) since Sonar X1.

2) MIDI - Back in the day when Memory, Processing, and Storage were expensive, much was done to improve the way MIDI functioned to produce AUDIO. Now that the aforementioned is relatively cheap, it seems much of the development in the past 15 or so years has gone towards improving Audio, which is not a bad thing but I’m afraid MIDI development has been neglected. There are keyboards being manufactured now without MIDI ports, which is a shame since MIDI, from it’s conception, was supposed to be about standardization and compatibility. FINE, add a USB jack but leave the MIDI Jacks, so we have compatibility with our vintage gear! Now with MPE and IOS integration...how quickly we forget.

3) Specifically, LOGIC, or at least in the old days, before Apple, their used to be an “Environment” page where there were all these different objects you could drag and connect with your mouse...It gave you a very visual oversight as to what was going on ROUTING wise (Again, mainly for MIDI) but you could easily route a multi channel instrument and split it to various destinations and be able to actually have a good idea what is happening when you open a project you completed 6 months ago... I don’t have a MAC so I’m not sure how they are doing it today but I believe SONAR, or whatever the name is going to be, would greatly benefit...much as the Skylight Interface helped to visualize a Recording Environment, in a system where anything can be virtually routed to almost anywhere, this sort of virtual patch bay/wiring diagram I believe is a necessity. Frankly, I’m surprised nobody has thought to include this GUI. The Track/Arrangement view is not the ideal place for it and frankly, with the Patch Points and Auxillary connections, it actually clutters that screen, though the idea of adding the connection points is needed, you should be able to just drag a line from one object to another and then back again...

4) Get rid of the dead weight... Personally, the .cal scripts never did nothing for me and though the rest of the platform has been developed consistently, .cal and the instrument configurations have not been updated for several major releases. I appreciate application integration if it helps with performance, otherwise, it’s just one more place for something to go wrong and crash the whole Program...

5) Control Surfaces - This needs to be on the leading edge, with all the new generation controllers that are now available (E.G. Roli Seaboard). It would be great if someone would produce a mapping system that actually worked...or one that could be easily assembled by again dragging objects (faders, knobs, switches, buttons, etc) and assignigning them to hardware counterparts. That way you don’t have to wait for a template to be made for every one of a gazillion devices one may want to control. I’m sure that would probably require a collaborative effort but I see it as being very do-able and essential.

I could be living in a Virtual World, but that’s the way I see it...in Detail....