Invested 4,50€ just out of curiousity to test the new Sonar for a month - and found a very nice surprise:
In the MIDI editor, velocities of a group of notes can now be changed in a relative manner (instead of identical absolute changes) by holding SHIFT when moving the mouse pointer up and down (plus some nice fade-in and fade-out tricks with using CTRL).
Useful and nicely implemented.
(Cubase already had it for some time, Reaper needs a macro; it's really, really useful for MIDI editing)
 
G.