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Make the export dialog less confusing and more in line with how people would expect it to work - this has always been a huge source of confusion among users judging by forum posts ("I exported a track and it sounds nothing like the original" etc).

I don't agree with this! IMHO Sonar has the best export dialog I have seen in the DAW liga (the 10 I tested). It is very well structured and allows you to disable several things and it is much easier than in other DAWs to select the valid range. For me it is on the top list of my DAW requirements (a Sonar-like export dialog).

I have to disagree.  SONAR is the most tedious one I have seen.  I seem to get it wrong every time.  I never have had a single issue with exporting songs from StudioOne or Cubase.
 
In addition, Cubase has the concept of Marker Tracks, which allows you to set the exact time range for every song in your project.  If you use that, you will never have any issues with the export range for any song.  With SONAR, every time you click anything, it resets the ruler range and that fouls up the export if you dopn't explicitly go back and fix that before exporting. 

Cubase has a very powerful capability called "Chord track" that allows any of the MIDI in your project to follow the tonalities entered in the chord track.  I haven't seen anything like this in other DAWs.
 
This seems like a function that could very well be offered as an add-on layer or companion product, as it is more about song-writing than production.

I've got a generally open mind about this. I'm willing to pay for a general "continued development" thing. I was generally happy paying the monthly membership, and felt I got enough useful stuff, often enough.
 
One thing that really needs doing, though, is a MAJOR update to / replacement of AudioSnap. The underlying tech is very good, but the workflow and crash-prone-ness are very bad.

Studio One and Reaper both have the time stretching feature that I would dearly love to have in "Mengwalk." It used to be called VariSpeed on the old tape machines and nowadays has two very useful main options:
 
 
1) to affect both the tempo and pitch (e.g. Record while hearing the previously recorded material 50% slower, and play back at the original speed with the resulting pitch of the newly recorded track sounding an octave higher than recorded (in this example). Less drastic speed reduction (or increase) results in a smaller pitch difference (and fewer artifacts).
Otherwise known as the "chipmunk effect" or the "Les Paul fast, high guitar trick", this is handy not only for playing fast, technical material (especially on an instrument you don't play every day), but for singing notes slightly out of your range (either too high or too low), or for playing a piece with the fingering and in the key that fits your instrument and have it match the pitch of the recorded material. For example, if a recorded rock song is in F# (must be some prima donna singer again!), you can temporarily change the recorded pitch, play along in the more natural rock key of E or A on the guitar while recording, and then hear everything play back in F#).
 
2) to affect the tempo but not the pitch (e.g. Record while hearing the previously recorded material a specified percentage slower but still at its original pitch, and play back at the original tempo. The pitch of the newly recorded track sounds as recorded. Handy for playing material that's tricky at the original speed, but not change the resulting pitch in any way).

 
3) it's a whole lot of fun, and that's worth an awful lot because it seems kind of rare these days :)
 
So, I'd be willing to pay ..... so much I'd be ashamed to tell anyone.

Not really a DAW feature, but here goes.
Many years ago, I used to have a guitar pedal called the Octovide. It 'kind of' turned a guitar sound into a bass sound. Kind of like the bass sound in 'Seven Nation' by the White Stripes.
Unfortunately, when I moved country, I sold it.
I would love to see a plugin that worked in the same way. Not just a pitch shifter, but a real octovider sound.