So my experience from using staff view has been more for learning music than composing. I can't read music, but I can work it out, most of the time. Most of the songs I play on flute and sax are those with words, this helps me understand the phrasing, and follow the music to then work out what I should be doing. I have an interest in Jazz standards, often lacking words. In the past, I have tried (from about Sonar 6 I think) several times, to input the sheet music onto the staff in Sonar. I had no idea it was so buggy, so I have no ideas if my struggles and after wasting the best part of a day banging my head were down to my ineptitude or hitting bugs. Having read some of the bugs mentioned, such as with triplets, I believe they had a big part in it, but that I was also inept. Being hindered by these bugs, I think held my in the state of inept.
I was recently asked to play flute on a part that had been written, by another forum member, which I declined. If I had of accepted, I would have wanted both the midi track and the staff view. I'm not going to learn a part via PRV. If I happen across a musician classically trained, and by this I don't mean a fully professional musician (though it could be), but some kid that plays the trombone or cello, but has learnt to play by reading and playing in more educational system. Then if they were interested in collaborating in a part, then I'd expect they'd expect the sheet music. Even if I can't print it from Sonar, I'd probably screen dump it into Paint or something. It would be interesting to see the techniques they use to embellish the part, but I'd need to give them the basic idea as Staff music.
Cakewalk allows us to write music for horn and string sections. And music producers all the way through pop have included strings and horns. Using cakewalk to sketch out an ideas using plug ins smallers or soft synths, but then to give those parts to actual musicians who plays those instruments seem like a pretty normal concept.
Sharke mentioned a Sonar Composer version, but I am against this idea, because Sonar should be a composition tool for Artist, Producer and Platinum users, that's why Artist includes some 11 soft synths, for composing. I think Sonar Composer would look like it was intended for Classical and Film composers, but composition does not need to be a grand as this. Having a Working Staff view in one version, would mean dropping the broken version from the rest. A Music 'Producer' should have the capabilities of adding trained musicians to play parts to their productions at least. So whilst Sonar Platinum only has just one extra function (to be expanded upon) I wouldn't even argue for it to be a Platinum function alone (And I have ordered Platinum, so I am not making this case for my benefit). Maybe teir the functionality of a fully working SV accross the three platforms, but it should at least in all versions be fully working.