Beepster
 
3) Making sure ALL parameters that expose themselves to automation envelopes actually WORK

 
+100; otherwise, sorry, what's the point of mixing in Sonar? 
 

Beepster
 
(eg: the on/off button for PC FX Chain modules only works if the module is in focus during playback... WTF? There are other wacky irregularities as well)
 

 
   That one I did not know, thank you very much!  Would you care to share any other (at least major) irregularities? Would be much obliged as I use the hell out of them and while I think they work, in a really complex project,  sometimes it's a lot of work to check everything (shouldn't have to of course)
 

BobF

Zargg71
I would say Automation and MIDI editing is the hardest things I do in SONAR.
The rest is up to me to get right

Yes, add these to my list!

+1
 

Ok, I've read through the full thread before posting. Most of my major ones (esp. erratic automation -- that borders on achilles heel right there, for me at least) have been mentioned. To which I'd add non-show-stopping, but annoying as hell cumulative time vampires:
 
-- please let the display options for take lanes be the same as for normal tracks, i.e. we can minimize the height of all, then select just one, and adjust only its height. At present, adjusting the height of one adjusts the height of all.
 
I sometimes have 40+ takes (including some punch ins) so if I want to see one rather tall, they all go rather tall, even if only one is selected.
 
Also, it seems no matter which take lane  I adjust -- let's say it's #20 out of 40 -- while I adjust the height, my whole display kinda goes into topsy turvy vertigo mode -- by the end of it  I'm hearing the outro to Strawberry Fields Forever and I've been scrolled up to and dumped on the curb at Take #1, forcing me scroll down past 19 unintentionally high take lanes to get to #20.  As I spend so much of my time comping, this is a major annoyance . 
 
-- not huge, but again, at present, requires just that many more needless mouse moves to deal with -- in the browser, please  have   Recently Visited Places option just like in Windows Explorer. When I'm working on several different projects, I spend a lot of time going up the Sonar browser's tree to my root drive, then back down to the appropriate new sub-folder.  
 
 

Primetime
Mastering multiple songs

I agree, and started using Studio One for this. They have an amazing interface that allows all kinds of mastering specific ways to match volume, cross fade and all sorts of good stuff.  Everything else is in Sonar for me but this.

I love recording in Sonar and love the plugs ins and synths.  With that said, I still find any kind of real audio editing painfully slow.  There seems to be many things that I cannot keybind and am forced to use the mouse way too much. This makes for a workflow much too slow for any professional editing environment.