(edited to eliminate unnecessary criticism while preserving the wish for improvement)
 
In order to put the output tracks of an inserted synth up near where the midi tracks are located, I put them into a folder; ready to take the folder and move all the tracks at once up where they should be.    Click close folder?   Presto, the screen pops up to the top, so I have to scroll all the way to the bottom again to grab the folder.   
 
Open a project folder in a directory with hundreds of entries?   Does sonar remember where the last entry was, the way Sound Forge does?  No, you have to scroll all the way down again every time.   
 
Essentially, I wish the sonar development team would take the time to polish all these little ways in which Sonar could be a stronger and more likeable program.    It's not just these two, it is everywhere and all the time. 

O yeah, keeping this window open while trying to add synths and instruments.    "Insert Soft Synth" ... I uncheck "Enable Midi Output".     Over .. and over ... and over .. .and over   and over.     Starting new projects, I uncheck "reset controllers to zero"   Over ... and over .. and over ... and over.    
 
Opening multiple tracks in prv, I close controller channels in the abominable controller pain, Over and over .. and over .. and over.
 
Trying to work with Sonar and Vegas Pro at the same time: I answer a dialog about missing midi .. Over ... and over ... and over ... and over.     All these things cause grief.

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Multiplication of midi clips by single click note insertion

Is the Reset Controllers To Zero parameter able to be set and saved into a Project Template that you could use when you start a new project?  That way, it would be set the way you wanted from the initiation of the project and not require having to go in and change it. I have done similar things (edited to add: with other parameters) many times for different flavors of project classifications that I use. :)
 
And for the Enable MIDI Output, a couple of other short posts on it:
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3276402
 
and
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3122034
 
Just a thought.
 
Bob Bone
 

Sure, Robert, most of these things either have work-arounds or are minor enough to pass over.   But they are still evidence of standards that could be raised in the UI programming department.   Other programs, not necessarily music related, deal with the same issues and generally solve them.        The focus issue:   you have four window open, you see four focus indications, and only one of them is true.

Given that you've now proven to yourself on the internet that it's not just various individual things that need to be improved / updated / fixed, but actually that Sonar is fundamentally and across the board a shoddy piece of work, can I ask why you use it?

I mean, if you're right, even half right, the situation is hopeless, surely?
 

williamcopper
Sure, Robert, most of these things either have work-arounds or are minor enough to pass over.   But they are still evidence of low standards in the UI programming department.   Other programs, not necessarily music related, deal with the same issues and generally solve them.        The focus issue:   you have four window open, you see four focus indications, and only one of them is true.

I'm not sure what you mean. Windows has some control over what windows have focus and the title bar is the tell tale.