This is sexy!

While it may not be earth shattering, it's still a good new feature. Hey, not every new feature can be drum replacer.
Also, I agree about making the on/off status of plugins more visible. As well as making the selected track more visible.
 

jpetersen
We now have five different ways of inserting a new track.
 
1) Main menu > Insert Audio/Midi track submenus
2) Right click > Insert Audio/Midi track submenus
3) "Insert" key > Little dialog to choose Audio or Midi track
4) Choose synth > Insert soft synth options dialog
5) This button.

 
6) Right click > Insert Multiple Tracks
7) Right click > Insert from Track Template
(I believe this is the only way you can add multiple MIDI tracks with different MIDI channels already assigned)
8) Shift + Num 0
(If an audio track is currently selected, it creates a new audio track. If MIDI, it create a new MIDI track.)
 

chilldanny

SteveStrummerUK
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I'm sorry, but with my eyesight, I simply cannot tell the difference between such similar shades of grey:
 

I totally agree.  I think little tweaks like this would make an awful lot of Sonar users very happy...

What he said...
 
Walt
 

icontakt

jpetersen
We now have five different ways of inserting a new track.
 
1) Main menu > Insert Audio/Midi track submenus
2) Right click > Insert Audio/Midi track submenus
3) "Insert" key > Little dialog to choose Audio or Midi track
4) Choose synth > Insert soft synth options dialog
5) This button.

 
6) Right click > Insert Multiple Tracks
7) Right click > Insert from Track Template
(I believe this is the only way you can add multiple MIDI tracks with different MIDI channels already assigned)
8) Shift + Num 0
(If an audio track is currently selected, it creates a new audio track. If MIDI, it create a new MIDI track.)
 

I never knew about #8. That's a good one to remember.

Cakewalk should come up with some sort of Card [ physical or .pdf] with a listing of basic activities for the newcomers specially with Keyboard Shortcuts and Menu. [A Ready reference]
They can be Card A, Card B depending on the Stages or Type.
Insert - To insert Track...
Delete - to Delete Track...
File New - to create new project.
Option - Properties - to change setting of Audio, MIDI etc..
 
I think that can be Helpful.
 
Or Card - Editing
Click [icon] - show hide Automation line
Click [icon] - Show hide Take lanes
and so on.
 
It my opinion.
 
Regards
Snehankur
 

I have to say, I'm surprised by the detractors of this new feature.  I've been using Cakewalk since it arrived on a single floppy disk, and I think this looks slick.  More of this kind of GUI enhancement will make Sonar more palatable for more people and that's ultimately good for all of us.
 
Good on ya, bakers.  Keep up the good work!

BRuys
I have to say, I'm surprised by the detractors of this new feature.

Well, we're experiencing "the Gearslutz effect" - people giving opinions on things they've never actually tried . We'll see what people think after it's out. I've been testing it to write an article about this feature for the eZine, and overall I prefer it to the other ways to add tracks (assuming it's not a situation where I can use a Track Template).

Anderton
I've been testing it to write an article about this feature for the eZine, and overall I prefer it to the other ways to add tracks (assuming it's not a situation where I can use a Track Template).

Now that's an odd omission.  If you're going to have a central place for inserting things, I think you want to be able to get at all the things you might want to insert.
 
Interesting that this new feature hasn't been released yet and already there are changes needed.  This thread is beginning to ressemble a trial balloon.

The dialog as such is a Good Thing, I think. I can identify with a new user adding a new midi track (ESPECIALLY a new midi track) and wondering - OK, now what.
 
But if we want to use it, we have to remember it's under the new button.
And if we don't want it, we have to use another way (Ins-key, say)
And if we hit the Ins-key and there's no tracks yet, we see a different dialog.
And if we insert a midi VSTi, we see yet another dialog.
 
So for a future version, some sort of unification might be in order.
 
I also feel strongly that, if it allows adding multiple tracks, it may as well also allow the user to decide beforehand where to put them. See the Clone Tracks dialog, keeping in mind it pre-dates Folders and only addresses positioning in terms of track numbers.
 
Edit: But this suggestion is mainly because repositioning multiple tracks in Sonar is - well. At the risk of repeating myself, allowing drag-drop of more than one track at a time would probably be a far better place to do this, esp. since we are thinking of the new user.