Bill Jackson [Cakewalk
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benjaminfrog


Hi, Folks. I'm happy to change the title. I certainly don't want to turn any new folks off to the product. I'm still very much in love with Sonar.

Thanks.  Really appreciated.  


FWIW: In no way did I intend to promote censorship in this forum.  I just felt as though the original title would scare folks away, rather than getting them to read on and get the full context.  There's some great discussion here, covering a variety of opinions on the topic.  The new title suggests "c'mon in and hear what I think."  Were as the other might get a lazy potential new user to say, "oh, looks like people think it's underwhelming" without bothering with the thread's content.


Thanks again.

If you go to Edit > Preferences (Advanced) and choose the Initialization File page (in the File category), add a new option: TVGridThreshold The natural value is 32. You can set this to 16 to make Smart Grid twice as sensitive - resulting in the 1 Sample setting after much less zooming-in.

benjaminfrog


Bill, that setting is great!!! I'll have to experiment in order to find the right balance (16 was a bit too far in the other direction), but this will help a lot. Thank you!

Now, any chance of getting those landmark options back on the Control Bar?

1. There are now 6, rather than 4 Landmark types.  Harder to fit in a module and more confusing to look at and understand.
2. In most workflows, people are enabling/disabling all of their desired landmarks over and over again.  Though, the ones they want to use tend to stay the same.  So, 3 desired landmarks required 3 fine-motor-skilled clicks to enable.  The new approach speeds this up to just one click for all 3 (or whatever number you previously set up in Preferences).
3. Using more landmarks simultaneously is now a cleaner experience.  We only snap to landmarks that are visible on screen.  In previous versions, we snapped to everything in the project whether you could see them or not.  The new way reinforces visually lining things up, so to speak.  So, having a whole bunch of landmark types selected at once isn't so cumbersome.  The idea is: Enable whatever you sometimes need.  Chances are, since you'll be looking at what you're working with, it won't be clouded with erroneous landmarks, as they'll be scrolled off-screen.

bigboi


NOt to hijack...but Bill....I would love to hear your take on VST3.  Quite a few of us were put off that it was not included in this version.  Eventually....everyone will go VST3...even if it's kicking and screaming.  Cubase has it. Studio One has it (which I currently use). Even $60 Reaper has it.  I would love to hear a programmer's insight.
 
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