PilotGav
I get so tired of people having to bash other people in the forum just because they state an opinion. Especially when the opinion is valid.
I just did a search on "dimension" in the forum. ZERO results! Come on!
Here's another great example... many of us in the past have posted that we'd like to see "AUX" tracks in Sonar. Every time whoever posted got hit with people throwing insults and arguments. How DARE someone request that feature...
It's now one of the most exciting and praised features to be added in a long time.
So please stop bashing the original poster of this thread. Sonar is Awesome. Best DAW available in my opinion. Sonar's forum search SUCKS. its just a fact.
Moving on.
Edited to reflect the fact that I took so long between writing this and hitting submit.
Let me first say that I respect your opinion and the spirit in which it's offered. It does you credit to point out that even the most critical posts may well contain valuable information for the rest of us.
Unfortunately, and this is in no way meant as a bash against you, in my opinion, your point doesn't really apply here. I say that because I don't recall seeing people criticizing him specifically for saying the search results suck. They do suck, no one questions that. (Edit: This just in - they don't suck after all, see Craig's post above!) In fact, the majority of the posts on that issue consisted primarily of useful suggestions for effective searches, presumably because they wanted him to get the most out of the forum
despite the useless search function.
We did that because the purpose of the forum is to help people get the most out of Sonar, so we tend to assume that people bring their problems to the forum to get solutions from other members. And why would we want to provide solutions in this case? People posted helpful tips because they clearly didn't want him to leave.
Unfortunately the remainder of his post indicated that he wasn't really interested in engaging in a process of finding solutions that would work for him, that he had no interest in honoring the purpose of the forum nor any respect for the time people would spend helping him, and that's what got everyone's dander up. Imho, the guy didn't want help because he wanted to have another complaint about Cakewalk and Sonar out on a public forum to create a false impression for the unwary that frustrated users are dumping Cakewalk in huge numbers.
But in truth it doesn't really matter what his agenda is. It's my opinion that it's just fine if people want to bring problems and frustrations and complaints here. It's my opinion that if the OP wants to dump Sonar for whatever reason he chooses, it's totally his right to say whatever he wants. It's my opinion that people do have a right to post criticisms and complaints, but it's also my opinion that I and others have a right to post ours as well.