There is one aspect in MIDI editing where Sonar is still behind others: drawing non-linear Controller Change curves in PRV.

Recently I've bought Presonus Firebox and it was bundled with copy of Cubase LE. Being extremely curious about everything concerning musical software, I immediatly installed Cubase to see what's going on.
There was one thing I liked very much. In Piano Roll (Graphical Editor in Cubases's terms) you can draw not only linear CC curves, but also parbolic.



In Sonar you can draw linear CC only. It was so in version 3 fifteen years ago, it is so today.

Some time ago I found a CAL script named INTERPOL.CAL which allows you to draw non-linear curves.

http://www.box.net/shared/12xxm274g4

Insert two CC events, select them



run CAL and it fills the gap between events:



I'm appealing to those who has CAL programming experience. It would be great to modify the script:

1. No input questions. Just select two events, run CAL and it fills the gap with maximum density.
2. Two separate scripts instead of one. One for the "fast curve" like on the above picture, and second for the "slow curve":



I hope we can solve this problem and make working with Sonar more effective.

+1!

This was one of a minority of things that I enjoyed in Cubase. Parabolas are nice for doing crescendos with sample libraries like Garritan etc. Miss it quite a lot in Sonar.

Whilst CAL would be a great option, I'd still love to be able to draw parabolas directly in the CC strip.

Anyway, *bump*.

Thanks arkiruthis, I hope we're not alone.

Non linear is so much easier with the pencil tool...define your own shape.

Drawing accurate curve like the one on the picture above is not easy at all.

excellent! thanks, vovchik!

I use envelopes instead. Slow curve/Fast curve normally does it.

Yes, envelopes have fast/slow modes, I know, but that's a different matter.
I'm talking about MIDI events.

ORIGINAL: Vovchik


I'm talking about MIDI events.

So am I.
I use Envelopes for MIDI events.

Well, when I need envelopes, I use them.

Here I'm trying to find somebody who can modify existing CAL (see the link above) the way I explained. It has nothing to do with envelopes.