Hey there
 
I need to shorten a song- turn it from extended mix to radio mix. I need to shorten the intro and delete several parts in the middle to shorten it from 7 minutes to 3.5-4 minutes. This song is 100 tracks wide and it is very difficult to move parts without accidentally place something in the wrong track. I am looking for the way to let's say delete all clips between measure 17 and 33 and then have Sonar delete 16 measures and automatically close the empty space. Can this be done? If this feature is still not available, it has to be added to the Sonar as it is almost impossible to accurately select that many tracks and move them back to close the empty space manually. Thank you.  

I believe that's coming in the ripple edit update at some point. I miss it too.
Since presumably the radio edit has the same basic mix as the extended mix perhaps you could bounce down first and then make the cut?

I too would like to see a better and easier way of doing things like this. Imagine also having automation data on several tracks and make a radio edit of an extended edit is frustrating, everything can go wrong...

Sanderxpander
I believe that's coming in the ripple edit update at some point. I miss it too.
Since presumably the radio edit has the same basic mix as the extended mix perhaps you could bounce down first and then make the cut?

This is exactly what I would do

This is unfortunately a tragedy of the SONAR development process. The ability to remove a chunk of data from a multi-track project and close the gap seamlessly (what other DAW's term ripple editing)  is such an essential editing process that the failure to be able to do this as a simple procedure has seriously impacted the utility of the DAW. Prior versions had a delete space that came close, and is now less than fully functional. There are kludges that will allow you to accomplish what you want, and I assume that the programming involved is not trivial, or the problem would never have surfaced. Nevertheless, the priority of fixing this, or more accurately making the original concept work as expected, cannot be underestimated. We all look forward to the success of the Cakewalk team in this effort. In the meantime, we should rejoice that they have let us change the colors of the interface.

We digitaze tapes and have also holes up to 1 or 2 hours of empty tape.
Deleting hole not possible.
I hope this comes with the new ripple edit.

Does it work if you put some data in one of the tracks in the measures during the 'hole section'?
 
I thought it would allow the collapsing of a hole, IF data was present.
 
I don't really have that issue come up much - so my above comment is one from memory.  :)
 
Bob Bone
 

+1 for the mixdown and then edit the master comments. By far the simplest for what you intend to do.

vladasyn
This song is 100 tracks wide and it is very difficult to move parts without accidentally place something in the wrong track. 

Holding down the shift key as you move the parts will stop you inadvertantly moving them to the wrong tracks.
I suspect many of us are looking forward to fix/upgrade of this feature in the form of ripple editing. 

tenfoot
I suspect many of us are looking forward to fix/upgrade of this feature in the form of ripple editing. 

Amen!