Where is the help module?After watching a anderton utube video.....i cant see it

Yeah...i know....the most basic ****, i cant see it......was watching another craig anderton utube video, and learning about far more complex stuff than this , ide lie to add....but he demonstrated help module, i either cant see it, or im too impatient to look

Yes thanx zargg, y worked, I dont know why they dont put this in the drop down menu......obviously anybody who needs to use the help module, isnt going to even consider that pressing 'y' will give them a help module.......kind of back to front stupid i reckon!!!

On my Sonar it is in the view menu as the last entry under Help Module. Has a big ? next to it.

paul jenkins
Yeah your right its at the bottom of the veiw menu, having it in the help menu would be better. Ive been using sonar since feb 2015, and i only discovered this now.

You are obviously thinking like an application user rather than a programmer. To you and me, putting all the help in one place seems reasonable. To a programmer, the way this particular piece of the help puzzle has been programmed in code makes it look and act like a "view," so there it is. 

Yeah i get that......Sonar is being forever improoved, maybe the cakewalk programmers might read this post, maybe they wont, so the help module in a perfect world would be both in the veiw menu and the help menu......Cause yeah the help module is going to be mostly needed by beginners to sonar, who actually need a little more help.......the most obvious place you would look is under the help menu

paul jenkins
And like, i bought sonar feb 2015, it was only a month or two ago that i was introduced to the community forum, and it was only a few weeks ago that i actually learnt who craig anderton was, point being is, when you are right at the beggining there is so much information to take in, and all you want to do is record your song, so you might even skip half the tutorials, so that guy who was me once also, the help module should be completely in your face like a big phat red STOP sign............
 

A big red stop sign. Nah. It would scream to members like me that sorta know Sonar. When I started out many years ago I read everything I could find on CW's Pro Audio. Before that I bought books on MIDI and read them. I still research things now mostly on the internet which was not around when I started. Everyone has their own style and way of doing things. What CW has tried very hard to do is keep those that are old hands and new users happy with a program that is very deep and powerful. They are never going to be perfect for both. None the less they do try.
 
The help Module was a recent addition aimed at new users. Yet it is also useful for the old hands around too.  I am very happy with Sonar. One huge reason is I have used many other DAWs over many years and have always been drawn to Sonar. It is in some ways simple and easy to use. It tends to work on a wide variety of machines and can do darn near everything I need done. The more you get to know Sonar and CW the better you will like them. 
 
I have noticed in your posts your questions tend to have an edge to them. A bit like this is not a good way to do things. Thats OK to question the way things are. There could be no progress without that kind of questioning.  Yet to a degree certain things are the way they are for good reasons. That isn't aways apparent on first encounters. Some things are arbitrary that is done that way because thats the way its always been done. An example would be the Console View in Sonar. Its a virtual hardware mixer. It doesn't have to be a simulation of a real mixer. Yet for many using it as it is is easy for anyone coming from a hardware background. The logic and routing are very familiar and very easy to grasp if one has ever used a hardware mixer. CW choose to keep that model for those reasons. This also limits what the Console View is able to do. There is always a trade off somewhere. One area that helps mitigate this is the new Mix Recall. Check it out and see how really cool it is.  Keep in mind we are here to be of help for no pay or consideration. The membership thinks so highly of Sonar that they wish to share what they know. 

Just a musician. I think that is the highest calling. You create something that only exists briefly yet can lift a person to hights previously unknown.  Just a musician, indeed! 

Notice the OP didn't ask for help on the Help VIEW, but on the Help Module . For long time users it is obvious that it is a View , not so for newcomers. As I was looking at my track screen I was thinking just how confusing it must be to a new user. Cakewalk did include a Basic entry in the Lenses. I would that would be the default, although my default Lense was Mix. Seems like that would defeat the purpose of the Basic entry if a new user needed to understand the Lenses menu system in order to pick Basic.

And actually i have no idea what the lense menu system is?.......i know the help module came out around may this year cause that was when the craig anderton utube video i saw was shot,......and i actually had the previous years version of platinum up until last week when i bought lifetime updates..........so the help module wouldnt have been on my computer until last week anyway........So please fill me in, "lense menu that craig anderton has put a lot of time into"Where?How??What?

Jesus christ.......i see it...like star gazing.....yeah, as if beginners to sonar are going to even look at that????????????????????????Ok thanks craig..but yep needs to be bigger and more obvious to begginers.....thanx all....just saying........its completely not obvious