azslow3
SilverBlueMedallion
John
To prevent the volume on the FM8 from being lowered goto the Event List View and insert a CC7 with level you want the FM8 to play at the very beginning. If for some reason you have other CC7s in the track and don't want them delete them. Once that has been done you can have reset controllers without problems.
and what if i am not starting playback at the very beginning?
This is not something one should have to do. Maybe it shouldn't be getting random CC 7 messages to begin with.
Sorry for repeating that, one more and for the last time from me:
Sonar IS NOT injecting any MIDI, and it IS NOT changing synth parameter. It is you, your equipment or your installation which does that fancy things. At least there was no single prove that is usual for other users.
Sonar has some inconvenient behavior with MIDI, which is the same for everyone. Just inconvenient, nothing serious.
Sonar has some small bugs in MIDI, confirmed by other. All of them are triggered in quite special situations only. They are not in the list of your complains.
Sonar does not support MIDI routing. Sonar does not really support MIDI FXes in VST format. That is in the future requests for long time, but that is not a bug. It is simple "not there yet". Using VST MIDI outputs is A WORKAROUND to somehow support VST MIDI FX. Far from perfect. Has several problems, including known and not mentioned by you. And it is known that using this workaround is a nightmare as soon as you change MIDI devices, re-route something, etc.
Sonar also can not prepare food. It is possible to insert tons of plug-ins and start playback, that will drive CPU to the limit, it will produce a lot of heat, so theoretically cooking something. But it is pointless to complain that does not work perfectly.
Sonar is DIRTY CHEAP for the value of third party software coming with it. If you sum even cheapest discount prices of AD2, Melodyne and all other included plug-ins, it is easy to prove you pay almost nothing for the DAW. It can not do EVERYTHING the way ANY PARTICULAR USER wants. There are other software packages, which provide other and sometimes better ways for particular workflows. They are also DIRTY CHEAP. Think about it other way: all your $$ spent for Sonar can at most cover ONE programmer for ONE day....
Azslow3, I
truly appreciate that a) you know what you're talking about, and b) that you try to educate people whose minds are made up and not interested in facts. However, after my providing links showing that something SBM repeatedly calls a "bug" is a specific design decision (detailed in the Cakewalk blog concerning SONAR's VST3 implementation), and his refusal to educate himself about why that design decision was made, I have chosen to give up on him and instead, spend my time on people who benefit from the learning process rather than reject it.
And I can't believe he said "and what if i am not starting playback at the very beginning? This is not something one should have to do." Well one doesn't have to, but he clearly knows
so little about SONAR's basics he's not aware of "Zero controllers when play stops" and "Controller searchback before play starts," let alone when or how to use them. Yet he wants us to believe he's incapable of user error.
People with a solipsistic mindset who demand constant attention and play victim get tiring. Perhaps we should take up a collection and buy him any software program he wants,
with the stipulation that he participate
only in that program's forum.