Really starting to get depressed about Sonar's automation parameter labeling
I think working with automation has to be my least favorite task in Sonar. It's just always felt like it's a half finished function of the program and I've started to shy away from working with it, which of course is not acceptable because my music does require a lot of parameter automation. The main problem is actually working out which parameter I'm automating. I've detailed before how Sonar does not display the correct parameter on the drop-down in the automation track if the parameter is on an effect that's in a ProChannel FX Chain. That's bad enough, because when you're working with a lot of automated parameters (sometimes 10+ in my case) then it's impossible to see at a glance which lane corresponds to which parameter.
Another problem I continually run into is a complete lack of parameter listing in the menu. For instance, I'm trying to find a parameter for a control on a Reaktor ensemble right now. Instead of listing the names of the parameter in the menu, Sonar just displays the number of the parameter (P0001, P0002, P0003 etc). You might say that this is because the VST isn't reporting the parameter names to Sonar, but if I select one of these and hover my mouse over the envelope that appears, the tooltip gives the correct name for the parameter. So obviously Sonar is getting the names and they're available to the envelope's tooltip, but it's not showing them in the menu list. It means that to find the parameter I want, I have to select each of the numbers in the list in turn and move the envelope up and down to see which control on the VST it's affecting. It's just so painful and frustrating it's making me want to switch to another DAW. I seriously hope they have gotten all of this sorted out for X3 (or X2b or whatever).
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