Anderton

orhanproject

thorsent
I *really, really* wish that fast-comp could be a "mode" that I could turn on and off. Has anyone else experienced the frustration of having manually comped a bunch of clips but then suddenly they all mute because you accidentally click in the bottom half of a clip instead of the top half? Ugh, this has forced me to stop using the smart tool which has seriously hurt my productivity.

I feel your pain, Im frustrated since day one that this "always on" comp mode got in sonar...
I too wish that comping mode should be on/off with a shortcut, I wined about this before but nothing will really happen Im afraid, you'll have to get used to bad workflow :( because cake is soo proud of it and everybody seems to love it....

Please don't assume that Cakewalk won't listen. Yes, people generally love the comping and yes, Cakewalk is proud of it for the context in which its optimized (and I believe rightfully so). But several people have mentioned limitations with multi-tracked group tracks and such. I don't know how deep the coding is where a simple on/off switch could be added, or whether CW would need to tear it down and start over from scratch. But if you can provide a clear picture of what it is you want in in the requests forum, you never know...someone at CW might say "Well it would be easy to do that."
 
Meanwhile, regarding the accidental clicking on position-sensitive areas, I expand the vertical height of Take Lanes to make the process easier. Which made me wonder...would a portrait display be better for DAWs than landscape? Hmmm...

Lets get stuff work well in landscape mode first ;) I dont want to buy new set of rotateable monitors :)

Im happy for those who love it and all, I want to be one of them too, (this will happen when I can turn it on/off), but why wasnt comp mode made with a on/off switch from the beginning? Why force it ? Its like the snap function with the "to/by" switch, I love that I can easily switch between them by holding down "N" key to swap between or hitting ctrl+shift+N to switch between "by/to" mode and so on... or to be able to turn snap on and off after needs... I would love comp mode when it gets on/off switch...
Maybe not the best comparison but you get the idea

Honestly, This one and 2 more things is my biggest issues with sonar platinum, which are no suprises really, but more fixes to whats already there..

Nr 2: make active track highlight more visually readable/visible, like highlighting the whole track , the whole horizontal part or the track, not only the track name bg bar as it is now, its hard to see... or make so we can customize how much an active track is highlighted, bar only, bar and whole track field with its lanes and stuff. This gors for the console active track highlight aswell (The amount of highlight could be customizeable)

Nr3: make collapse/expand shortcut that works for all track/automation lanes with a single shortcut, if a track is active, it works for the track only, if no track is active, it will affect all tracks...

Since you are in the cakewalk boat Craig, past this to the rest of the team and prove me that cakewalk listens :)

Thanks

If you want cakewalk to listen to your feature requests - post them in the feature request forum.  The bakers have said they monitor that forum and based on the feedback (read post ratings) of each request, they can try to prioritize (probably based on other factors too).

dwardzala
If you want cakewalk to listen to your feature requests - post them in the feature request forum.  The bakers have said they monitor that forum and based on the feedback (read post ratings) of each request, they can try to prioritize (probably based on other factors too).

Got one posted there but very quite so far...i hope they dont look only at the rating and how many rated and so on, because tat cant show the whole need for a feature request or fix request... Not every sonar user is here on the forum to make their voices heard right? :)

orhanproject

thorsent
 I *really, really* wish that fast-comp could be a "mode" that I could turn on and off. Has anyone else experienced the frustration of having manually comped a bunch of clips but then suddenly they all mute because you accidentally click in the bottom half of a clip instead of the top half? Ugh, this has forced me to stop using the smart tool which has seriously hurt my productivity.

I feel your pain, Im frustrated since day one that this "always on" comp mode got in sonar...
I too wish that comping mode should be on/off with a shortcut, I wined about this before but nothing will really happen Im afraid, you'll have to get used to bad workflow :( because cake is soo proud of it and everybody seems to love it....

A long time 8.5 user here and recently jumped on the X.  I must say that this TakeLane/Comp really frustrated me for all the reasons mentioned here and then some.  I've never spent this much effort in one functional area and still don't completely get it (the logic not what it does). 

hmmm.... seems thorsant's highjack is getting more attention than the OP. 
 
EDIT: And with his first post to boot. Nice.

We have fixes to look up to, but we have don't have CWBRN numbers either from the OP or Cakewalk.
Only one of the issues the OP quotes appears to have been validated.
Cakewalk used to quote CWBRN numbers when things got fixed but this has disappeared with Platinum.
 
It makes life very difficult when you are comparing eggs with eggs.
 
The OP should wait for the trial to come out. Has it been released??

Hey Craig, you around here? No reply from you about my latest comment, you usually fast with replying... :)