Hi Meng, hope your bakers can take a look over this requests!

 I´d like to suggest some features that will improve my workflow and hopefully some other people would benefit from it too.
 
- Tab to transient: Works wonders with individual tracks but starts to fail when tabbing with grouped clips, that´s really annoying
- Group clips: I wonder why when tracks are grouped if you select one track and make a split it doesn´t make a cut in all tracks, that slows a ton the workflow when cutting tracks to edit them to the grid.
- AudioSnap: Those who work professionaly need to speed up our editing time. Now audiosnap is the only way to edit multitrack drums ala BeatDetective way. Your select your markers, merge them and cut. So far so good. Now it comes the bad part, the session begins to slow down, if you ever dare to save the session it will take maybe 3 minutes and 300mb size. That´s really bad and why I mainly switch to PT for that. Also audiosnap markers cut the transient in the middle not in zero crossing.
- Strech clips only works with one track at a time. So if you´re trying to strech your 20 drums tracks for some cymbal bleed you have to do it one by one = phase problems/artifacts
- Enable a quick quantize button that will move to the selected grid without having to set the parameters in the quantize menu, like you do on PT, just press a key and move. Bang!!
- To be able to change the keycommans, for example slip edit tool is alt+shift for lefthanded is a pain, it would be great to be able to remap it.
- Track templates dont keep phase invert button, sidechain sends to plugins and pre-post button on the prochannel.
- Create a import session data like protools where you can actualy select which tracks/buses you want to import.
- Color markers, so you can difference better the song parts (like PT)
- Auto fade in/fade out option, so when you cut a clip it automaticly makes a 1ms fade in/out preventing clicks (cubase does it)

Not a bug but to include more demo songs with raw stems is always great. 

Thanks for the interest and transparency.  I always felt Cakewalk and Sonar development was very user-oriented, and now it appears will be even more so!
 
1.  Easier compatibility with the standard MIDI keyboards / controllers.  I understand from friends that other DAW's work fairly seamlessly, using ACT is a bit of a pain, and frankly I've ignored most of my keyboard controllers due to the hassle.
2.  Fix Melodyne issues.  Integrated Melodyne has been a huge asset for my work flow, but does have some bugs as noted.
3.  Not directly DAW related, but improve search capability in the User Forum.  For me, this user forum has been THE single biggest asset of Sonar - it's a great DAW, but using the knowledge base from other users has exploded my understanding and use of the DAW.  But I am forever running into an issue (that's usually user-induced), can't find a thread when searching for quite some time, so I post a question and within minutes some astute user has not only the answer, but links to other threads with the same issues.  That being said, this is the BEST user forum of any product of any sort that I have ever seen, hands down.
4.  Long shot - but as one previous post - make a Mac OS version.  My ONLY Windows based computer is for Sonar.  I was partly excited when I learned Sonar was disappearing - if I was going to have to give up Sonar, at least I could finally get on a Mac based DAW and be done with Windows.  (And running Windows on a Mac isn't the same - you still have to deal with the Windows issues.)  I love Sonar enough I'll stick with my PC for TDFKAS, but the thought of a Mac based TDFKAS gives me chills of excitement...
 

Thanks for putting this sticky up.
 
I would like to see a visible button that tells us when ripple editing is on or off.
I would also like to see a pre-roll feature that's been suggested elsewhere in these forums.
An arranger track would be nice, also.
 

Years ago I had a Cube product that had a drum programmer that worked better than anything I have used since. It was MIDI only.

I'd like to see direct editing in the events view, or export/import events from spreadsheet.

1.  Prochannel plugin Tube is awesome
2.  Stability needs some work
3.  Better multi-instrument/VST capabilities
4.  Track grouping in console view
 

A real score edit.

1. Mac version
 
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KEv

Wishes:
 
1. Re-sizable transport screen, especially the record button. Just added a 20" touchscreen to my studio for vocals and drumming (I can sing way better standing up and hit the high notes better). It's mounted to the wall by a nice articulated arm and can be swung up higher than my eyes to help align my throat to release air better. I scroll my lyrics on the screen but can barely hit the record button as it is minuscule on the screen and my average fingers feel gigantic compared to the little on-screen record button. Also, I have my little Roland drums right next to my computer desk and can now swing the touch-screen monitor over my crash cymbal where I can easily touch it to start/stop recording. Again it would be better if the record button were much larger.
 
2. Ability to edit audio track volume simply by cutting the track before and after the too loud section, and then simply dragging the wave form down to a lower volume.
 
3. PRV view for midi drums. Instead of little diamonds representing the drums, how about images of tom toms, snares, etc?

FM

I would like Bandlab to see what FLstudio and Reason are doing. FLstudio is the most popular DAW in the world because of its easy EDM workflow and great step sequencer. Reason is not just a daw, its a full music making environment. If we can take the best features of what makes FLstudio and Reason great and implement this into Sonar's successor it would penetrate big niche markets.

Good point!  Cakewalk was close over a decade ago with a loop-sequencing product called Project 5, but they buried it after v2.5.  It started out as a soft synth workstation and audio/MIDI loop sequencer in v1, but added audio recording and a Groove Matrix to v2.

https://www.soundonsound..../cakewalk-project-5-v2

So it had a little bit of Acid, Reason, FL Studio, and Ableton Live, combined with an easier workflow than Sonar.

It would have taken some work to update it for 64-bit and multi-core CPUs, but the old version I have still runs on Windows 10 64-bit.  I open it every now and then, but I can't use my 64-bit plugins, so I would like to see this rise from the ashes with a refresh!

I recall P5 having a very active online community of its own, that eventually moved on to other things...
https://www.mixonline.com/recording/cakewalk-launches-dedicated-project5-website-373653
 
Hint: the project5.com domain is available!
 
This end-user site still works, and contains some useful P5 information and links >> http://project5.technetos.com/

Just look at where Live, FL, & Reason are today. 

My top-5 features would be based on improving things mostly:

1. Implement common industry standard regarding controlling daw from midi controllers or other surfaces. Right now it is very poor, so to speak.

It is also would be nice to be able to make midi-learn for buttons, knobs and sliders - just like in vsts, but for whole daw.

2. Add midi send to midi tracks. This would simplify layering. So I can have one midi track and easily send it to many synths/instrument tracks

3. Improve support for high dpi. Right now it is pain in the ass to draw automation lines on 4k display, for instance.

4. Step sequencer must become a complete tool that arpeggiator, automation (!) and pattern creation capabilities (suggestions mentions above in this thread are appreciated). Together with item 2 this would make the daw fantastic for electronic music production.

5. In console view a section with level meter must be made resizable. It should be possible to have very long and precise meter and volume slider (makes a loooot of sense on big displays).

Stability 
Color control (i.e. one set of colors for tracks that stays there and applies to new clips without having to pick colors again.  If this risks stability - forget it.
Keep the GUI real similar to what we are use to with Platinum.
THANKS for asking.