Enter (negative?) time before zero on the time ruler

the feature request is here http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3159057

GuitarBob34
Whilst I'm quite experienced at using Sonar, I haven't used forums much.  Are these threads monitored by Cakewalk, if so do they contribute to discussions where appropriate?

Before answering that, I did have an idea: Select All, then move everything so the project starts at exactly 1 hour. Then all the minute and second timings would be correct, and you wouldn't have to do any math. When you're done, Select All and move everything back so it starts at 00:00:00. 
 
Anyway...this is primarily a peer-to-peer forum. While some Cakewalk staff monitor it, and their occasional appearances are always welcome by the community, they have to devote their time to the software. It's particularly true now as staffers are pitching in for support while the new support hires are being onboarded.
 
Whether a feature gets implemented or not depends on many things, mostly how important it is to how many users, and the effort required to implement it. As to the latter, it's really hard to predict...something like modifying how the timeline works may be buried so deep in the code it would be difficult to implement and it might be perceived as something that's important to a relatively small number of users. But another factor is "bundling" changes. For example if some aspect of the program is going to undergo a significant change, then Cakewalk would be less likely to make any changes with a short lifespan, but instead bundle them into the more significant changes occurring later.

GuitarBob34
Thanks for your help Craig.  The one hour move is certainly worth a try.
This entire thing may seem like mountains and molehills but it would be so useful to be able to enter a count in before the metre starting ticking, so to speak!

 
Well I wouldn't put it in my "top 10 wish list" for SONAR, but I do think for those synching to older external MIDI hardware, having some extra time for those devices to stabilize would be helpful.
 
I think the "one hour move" will do what you need, of course with the only issue being that after doing your project, you'd need to move the audio back to the beginning of the timeline. Also, if you export Broadcast WAV Files, you'd need to specify to the person at the other end that everything starts 1 hour into a project. For some reason this is actually something that's fairly common; a lot of sample libraries start their files at 1 hour. Why, I don't know...