John
I love the new keyboard. It is very handy!

+1    I honestly had no interest when it was mentioned, but I've quickly found it's a great way to audition VSTi patches.  Much more ergonomic for me than trying to play a real keyboard off one side while twisting in the other direction to mouse click through patches. 

Anderton
 
As to missing features, although it would be convenient I doubt any program will ever incorporate all features from other programs...you could come up with a list of things SONAR has that other programs don't have, and consider those programs to have "missing" features.
 
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The people working at these software companies are creative folks, and will always be coming up with new features. They do this to try and differentiate their programs and have unique selling points. I highly doubt there could ever be "one DAW to rule them all" although if there is, I'd be okay with it being SONAR 

I've never had it run thru my brain with this explanation, but what a great comment.  I suppose if Sonar had "everything", then the "too many bells and whistles" crowd would come out of the woodwork and groan....
 
There are a couple small items I've purchased outside of Cakewalk (gotta love my Toontrack) that I use consistently, but otherwise I'm not missing any features.  Besides, most of the features that seem wanted, just seem to be a way to do something with 3 less mouse clicks.  How lazy is that?

stevec
I honestly had no interest when it was mentioned, but I've quickly found it's a great way to audition VSTi patches.  Much more ergonomic for me than trying to play a real keyboard off one side while twisting in the other direction to mouse click through patches. 

I've been using a third party virtual midi keyboard and while I find it handy try out simple things and audition patches, it's not very useful for creating actual music.  The problem is that the minute I click on a softsynth to adjust a parameter with the mouse the virtual keyboard loses focus and has to be clicked on again to get it back.  A note can get stuck on in the process.
 
With the new Sonar keyboard, can you click and manipulate things in a softsynth with the mouse while still playing the synth through your computer keyboard ?

When someone wants new features,or other features users should not take it like it is personal.I find that so frustrating about the internet in general.I love sonar,but it isn't infallible,don't give it god status.It is my favorite DAW but there are definitely things that many people could use,features i mean.If you disagree that is ok,but don't start defending sonar when no one is attacking it.

I'm using it all the while while remote debugging :)
I frequently connect to my work PC to do stuff and I can now easily do realtime MIDI input via remote desktop using this.

I was impressed with how playable it is.

Yeah, really useful feature. I've got a nice full size keyboard about five or six feet to my right that I use for serious playing. But I've already been using the virtual keyboard for tapping in basic patterns for things. Really handy to be able to do that right where I'm sitting.

gswitz
I was impressed with how playable it is.

Its very playable. Keith who implemented the feature spent a lot of time on exact measurements to ensure that the touch keyboard was accurate and playable. He's a Juilliard trained classical pianist so if he can play it I assume most keyboardists will like it :) Its adaptive so on a big touchscreen laid flat you can actually perform with it.

Noel, I've already been having good fun. It's going to be used regularly by me. I think it was a genius addition and takes great advantage of the multi-touch!!
 
Bravo!

I have to admit I didn't really thnk much about this feature when it was first announced. I've got a controller keyboard just as John T said. But for noodling around or doing a bit quickly I don't have to worry about setting up my controller keyboard. It just there and does what I tell it. Thanks bakers.