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!
 
Thanks again,
 
Bob

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...
 

Maybe not top 10 but my life would have been made so much easier by having the facility, especially when recording instruments live and having to sync to tracks received from other sources.  It is not possible to play an instrument from the start of a project without a count in, therefore I have no choice but to move the project along from zero, having to amend the in and out times accordingly. Even your fix of an hour along is not without a fair amount of poncing about that could be easily avoided with a mod to the program.
It's horses for courses and depends very much on how people use Sonar, and for what reason.  I still maintain it would be a very real benefit to me (and many others it would seem?) and I look forward to the day it is incorporated - however far away that may be!
Anyway, I think I've said enough on the subject now!
 
Thanks again.
 
Bob

In some ways related, it would be nice to have the option to globally remove project time/measures the same way you can insert them in Project menu, and also shift all upstream track clips back, which "delete hole" does not do unless audio clips are continuous, (but then not with midi clips, which have to be split where you want to "delete hole". (unless there is some secret way to do to this?)