I have been referred here for this first post of mine to this site - .  Questions I have are:
 
I have an older version of Sonar and in that one by pressing F7/F8 I can go the beginning and end of clips as opposed to dragging a pointer to the beginning/end of clip - an error prone/fiddling type of manual method. Has the F7/F8 function been taken out in Sonar X3? If so can I program it back in and how?
 
As far as cut and paste again pasting x number of duplicated copies starting at the right boundary of a clip is something I - and I am sure many others - do all the time and a lot of the time.  It seems to me there should be a simple function that does that - click on the clip, have a choice 'copy x times from the right boundary of this clip'. If not available I think it should be programmed into the next update - it is something that is used all the time, it's not esoteric. But in the meantime, is there some way I can make a macro keystroke combination that would do this? So I click on the clip, press some key combination, get asked how many times I want to paste copies, I enter a number, press enter and voila all done, program knows exactly what I mean.  A job for CAL?
 
If there is yet another forum for programming please let me know. 
 
All responses are appreciated in advance.

That's a good question, and something I use often in another DAW when working on a track with a lot of clips in it.
 
In an earlier version of Sonar I think I was able to set it up somewhere in the key assignments, but can't seem to find it now in Platinum.
 
Looking forward to some answers.
 
 

 
 

plincoln
I have an older version of Sonar and in that one by pressing F7/F8 I can go the beginning and end of clips as opposed to dragging a pointer to the beginning/end of clip - an error prone/fiddling type of manual method. Has the F7/F8 function been taken out in Sonar X3? If so can I program it back in and how?

F7 and F8 were shortcuts for Go to From and Go to Thru.  But, in Platinum (and I believe X3), F7 and F8 have new uses (related to selecting Tools).
 
Go to From has a new shortcut of Shift+G. 
 
Go to Thru has no new shortcut, but you can make one:  Use Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts and (in Global Bindings) do a search on Go to Thru, and then assign your own desired keybinding.