• SONAR
  • Feature Requests + Improvements [New 29/3/2018] (p.48)
2018/05/17 13:28:51
stevec
Canopus
As I work a lot with MIDI in the full Piano Roll View, I often find myself staring at an empty grid with no MIDI notes to be seen. And all those times I have to zoom out and scroll around in order to find those MIDI notes.
 
When in Track view, shortcut key F currently resize vertically so that all tracks are visible. Shortcut key Shift+F resize horizontally so that the full width of the project is visible. Perfect.
 
In the full PRV I would expect similar ways to fit content. However, it doesn’t work like that. Sure, in the PRV’s View menu there is an item called Fit MIDI Content so it is indeed possible for a user to manually assign e.g. the shortcut key F to that command in the PRV. But there is no way to do that horizontally using any menu or keyboard command.
 
So in short, I‘d love to see the shortcut keys F and Shift+F having similar behaviour in the full PRV as in the Track view: fit content vertically and horizontally respectively. That would be a great starting point for further zooming in and editing.
 
Consistency is king.




Nice.
2018/05/17 16:45:57
Lynn
One more thing I'd like to see; a solo button on the fly-out quad EQ.  It was once a feature in Panu's Duckbar, so I know it's possible.
2018/05/17 21:43:05
Matt74
I have just three right now....
 
1. One Negative Measure on the timeline.
2. An option to lock any fader so it can't be moved accidentally.
3. At least one extra undo/revert option for fader changes.
 
Cheers!
2018/05/17 22:32:20
chris.r
Lynn
One more thing I'd like to see; a solo button on the fly-out quad EQ.  It was once a feature in Panu's Duckbar, so I know it's possible.


Also please make the possibility to add more bands and make the GUI detachable and keep open more instances like a normal plugin.
 
And if you'd release it as a VST plugin, I would gladly use it in all the other DAWs (if any).
2018/05/17 22:57:05
backwoods
chris.r
Lynn
One more thing I'd like to see; a solo button on the fly-out quad EQ.  It was once a feature in Panu's Duckbar, so I know it's possible.


Also please make the possibility to add more bands and make the GUI detachable and keep open more instances like a normal plugin.
 
And if you'd release it as a VST plugin, I would gladly use it in all the other DAWs (if any).




they're not going to add more bands cos that's the way gui is set up-- like sonnox or dp masterworks. Think!
2018/05/18 17:36:46
HIBI
Is there a list of all requests?
2018/05/19 11:52:32
cyberzip
Here are a few of my humble feature requests:
 
1) A visual indicator if the option "Select track envelopes with clips" is enabled
2) A visual indicator if Ripple edit is enabled
3) A keyboard shortcut option for "Archive track"
4) A duplicate option (CTRL+D) like in Ableton Live - amazing timesaver!
5) A chord track (like in Cubase)
6) An arranger track (like in Studio One)
 
Thank you. :)
2018/05/19 15:08:10
bz2838
cyberzip
Here are a few of my humble feature requests:
 
1) A visual indicator if the option "Select track envelopes with clips" is enabled
2) A visual indicator if Ripple edit is enabled
3) A keyboard shortcut option for "Archive track"
4) A duplicate option (CTRL+D) like in Ableton Live - amazing timesaver!
5) A chord track (like in Cubase)
6) An arranger track (like in Studio One)
 
Thank you. :)


+1 ON:   5) A chord track (like in Cubase)
2018/05/19 15:53:44
dubdisciple
This never worked with Gibson, Roland or original owners,but....
Cakewalk needs an integrated sampler to compete. Not having one is basically ignoring huge chunk of Hip-Hop, Pop, EDM and even some modern rock acts. To be perfectly clear, one can create any genre in any DAW. Whether that creation is practical and intuitive is another thing altogether. Even with Cakewalk being free, it is a hard sell to youth because the hoops I have to jump through to demo modern pop and Hip-Hop are too much.

The people of this forum represent Cakewalks faithful, traditional user base which was not enough to keep cakewalk competitive. Repeating mistakes of past will likely see similar results. The foundation of cakewalk is solid, but needs a major overhaul when it comes to modern music production. Someone like Anderton can come up with clever solutions, but most DAWs have these things implemented out of the box. I can recreate over half of current top 40 songs using FL Studio, Logic, Ableton, Reason, Bitwig and Studio One out the box with no major workarounds. I can’t do that with Cakewalk or even SPLAT. The process requires major third party assistance. I have used Geist paired with Sonar but even that has limitations and again, requires additional purchase without being truly integrated. I have little experience with Ableton and over 20 years with Cakewalk and it was easier for me to show a kid what he wanted to do with the former.

I’m not talking full Kontakt or other advanced product. FL Studio has the simplest integrated sampler with little deep editing ability beyond pitch and envelope but it is effective and super quick. Sample One and Simpler are nowhere near the level of EXS24 but just work. The fact that Sonar has a step Sequencer gives it a foot in the door but falls far short without useful sampler. For now I literally cannot give product away.
2018/05/19 17:25:26
JoseC.
dubdisciple
This never worked with Gibson, Roland or original owners,but....
Cakewalk needs an integrated sampler to compete. Not having one is basically ignoring huge chunk of Hip-Hop, Pop, EDM and even some modern rock acts. To be perfectly clear, one can create any genre in any DAW. Whether that creation is practical and intuitive is another thing altogether. Even with Cakewalk being free, it is a hard sell to youth because the hoops I have to jump through to demo modern pop and Hip-Hop are too much.

The people of this forum represent Cakewalks faithful, traditional user base which was not enough to keep cakewalk competitive. Repeating mistakes of past will likely see similar results. The foundation of cakewalk is solid, but needs a major overhaul when it comes to modern music production. Someone like Anderton can come up with clever solutions, but most DAWs have these things implemented out of the box. I can recreate over half of current top 40 songs using FL Studio, Logic, Ableton, Reason, Bitwig and Studio One out the box with no major workarounds. I can’t do that with Cakewalk or even SPLAT. The process requires major third party assistance. I have used Geist paired with Sonar but even that has limitations and again, requires additional purchase without being truly integrated. I have little experience with Ableton and over 20 years with Cakewalk and it was easier for me to show a kid what he wanted to do with the former.

I’m not talking full Kontakt or other advanced product. FL Studio has the simplest integrated sampler with little deep editing ability beyond pitch and envelope but it is effective and super quick. Sample One and Simpler are nowhere near the level of EXS24 but just work. The fact that Sonar has a step Sequencer gives it a foot in the door but falls far short without useful sampler. For now I literally cannot give product away.


I guess a good step forward would be making Dropzone 64 bit.
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