Kev999
Staff View is one of the most overlooked features of Sonar because people seem to think that you either use it OR you use Piano Roll View, not both. Really everybody should be using both, as the the two views each provide a different perspective. PRV is better for fine detailed editing, but SV is better for viewing the overall arrangement and seeing the bigger picture. If you have more than one screen then you can use them both together. Even as it stands, without any new improvements, SV is still very useful. I urge skeptics to try it.
Actually I use the event list for detailed editing, that and the context menu note properties in staff view and the controllers and tempo view. I've never been able to see any advantage of the piano roll view. But I expect CW to keep it up to date because it is an integral part of the program and many of their users like it. Same with staff view, except while the PRV keeps getting updated and new features added, the staff view remains as is, they don't fix bugs and they keep "deferring it" to some future update in the future.
A few posts up someone commented about how the code is so archaic that no one wants to touch it. That sounds true, but the question is, how did they let it go on for so long, why wasn't CW incrementally improving, integrating and fixing the staff view all along?