I'm seeing a lot of great enhancement and feature requests here. It would be a pity for them to fall on deaf ears.
 
Throw in a thread here and get voting!!!

there certainly are a lot of great ideas for enhancing the users work flow and creativity in SONAR  floating around here in this thread  ……. 
thank you all for feeling comfortable enough to share them here 
 
Kenny
 

SteveStrummerUK

1. Please could we at least have the option not to show them at all in their collapsed state. They could easily be made visible again using the appropriate keyboard shortcuts, or from the Views menu.
   
   I just cannot understand the logic of having them on screen when they're closed.
   
   I even made a quick animation to show how passionate I am about this:
   
   
   
   

Ohhhh, man do I agree with you..... that would be awesome to be able to get rid of those gray strips of wasted space.  I get why they're there - lots of people get confused about multiple panes etc.   But PLEASE give us a way to get rid of them
 
 

Agree about the browser and multidock being made to disappear. Great animation too stevestrummer.

I only have track view and inspector always open. I open browser when Iwant to drag in an instrument or vst and I never use multidock. I have control bar hidden most of the time too.

...Thanks for all these thoughts y'all ...in business, when folks want me to work with them over time ...it's made clear we need to recognise "cash is king" in our culture ...therefore ...Cakewalk has to look at it's customer base as a continuing income source ...that means providing new (and better) products... in that light ... I welcome the reasonably priced upgrades, knowing it helps keep the company in good health ...(I hope!) ...now I know some things to hope for!

cityrat
Ohhhh, man do I agree with you..... that would be awesome to be able to get rid of those gray strips of wasted space.  I get why they're there - lots of people get confused about multiple panes etc.   But PLEASE give us a way to get rid of them

But is it worth all the forum threads on "SONAR BUG! Multidock, Browser Disappear!!" 
 
If Cakewalk implements this, I would beg that it could not be enabled/disabled with a keyboard binding...

Again, you can get rid of the browser and dock by docking everything, floating the dock and closing it (or just hit "D".).  Full time line view.  Except for the dock wanting to, well, dock, when it is open and being moved you can open it wherever and however big.  So I guess that is a feature request - ability to disable automatic docking the dock at the top and bottom.
 
Another thing is move the Dock tabs.  Right now you can't see them, although the latest tabs do appear last (and easy to get to).  However, if you are working on an early edit, it is a lot of scrolling from left to right in the dock.  I guess that is a second thing I'd like in X4.
 
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cityrat

Anderton

I can't really argue with this - it's all about appropriate use of resources.... I still wish someone would create a hybrid "Staff Roll" like this:
All true - can't
 
 

 
I REALLY Like this concept..

Geo524
As far as improvements are concerned for me the list is short, but I would like to see a dedicated mastering/arrange suite similar to what Studio One has. Being able to do some fine tuning and arrangement of songs for an album would be a major plus in my book.
 
The second thing would be improvements to Audiosnap. Not only fixing it so that it works consistently but also making it easier to use. That said I don't use it often but when I do I always have to find my way around it again. Of course if none of the above never happens I still remain a very happy Sonar user.
 

 
Both of these 100%. These are my biggest issues with X3. Other than that I'm a really happy camper.

epytryga
hmm..something like Cubase's "Chord Track" would be a cool addition

+1 on chord track, that would be a really good feature, especially for non keyboard players like me......