this is by far my longest awaited change - you can switch PDC on and off ! finally - its great!
although the AUD.ini parameters could be implemented in the program as a menu to change them on th fly..

Or you could use Sonar Utils that adds it self to the Tools menu and has edit windows for all the .INI files.

ebinary asked:

"Is there any way to get back to the smaller meter size of Sonar 3 horizontal meters??

I use Sonar live and screen real estate is precious. I'd hoped that in Sonar 4, meters would become true widgets and move into the track header. Instead, the meters grew in height by about 10 pixels, significantly lowering my on-screen track count.

In Sonar 3, I could view 24 tracks with meters + my main busses in track view. Now, with the navigation area at the top and the resized meters, I can see only 17 tracks w/meters.

Losing seven tracks worth of real estate is significant, when you want to view the whole mix in realtime without a mouse.

Anybody got a tip to get back to a more compact track view?"

This is what i tried to explain a few times already - i want re-sizeable widgets anfd the options of changing the order of all buttons, widgets on the lft side of the screen in Track View. Because screensize does matter to me and TrackView space is precious. (please dont tell me to get another screen ;-) )


regards, planist

You can hope and you can pray, but only Cake decides the day...good luck!

ORIGINAL: yep

Nice work, planist. And remember: there is an official feature request channel:

http://www.cakewalk.com/support/featurerequest.asp

If you have a good idea, please use it. Requested features DO get implemented from time to time. But you got to tell Cakewalk, not just the users' forum. Cheers.

I tried to send Cakewalk a "feature request", but when it came to the question "what product are you using?" Sonar 4 was not an option. (Stops at 3).

Cliff

Bangs head against wall - you can do this now. We've been through this so many times on this forum, on the newsgroup and on opther sites like K-v-R.

KP,

Who is "We" ???
if you mean this nice little app (i think its called "subsonar" or something like it) that makes it perhaps possible to create submenues then you dont get my point .. sorry, please explain what you mean.

planist

We is, well, quite a few people. And you don't need SubSONAR - you can use either the Plugin Manager or the VST Adapter (or both for VST plug-ins) to get one level of menus. It works, always has (I edited the registry manualy years ago before these tools were available).

I was just thinking yesterday that the Snap To options should be an optional toolbar, with a couple of buttons that you can assign to different levels of Snap. I often change those back and forth within the course of a project and I'd rather just press a toolbar button to change them.

Support for Pro Tools HD hardware .I know its impossible for 4.1 but it's my wish for future version. I prefer SONAR over Logic Audio and Protools software

MIDI
1. Convert shapes to CC events -- so that you can redraw, then convert back to shapes. I know this function is available internally in SONAR, since it's done when you save as midi.

2. Horizontal grid lines on the controllers pane in piano roll, or better yet, a showable/hideable controllers pane on each track in track view.

STAFF VIEW
A real notation tool. I have used CW/SONAR since the early days and can't imagine using anything else, but for composition, the staff view is terrible. And, no, I don't want to export to midi to load into Sibelius/Finale/Overture. Too bad CW can't get one of these companies to cooperate in developing an interoperable scoring product or plugin. It would be killer.

How about an option where the user can choose the behavior of the patch select/browser process. Here would be some options.

1 Only initiate patch select commands at first bar of song or manually by user.

Some of my hardware synths don't respond to patch change commands fast enough at the start of a sequence. I realize this isn't Sonar's problem but this would be a nice workaround if implemented. This would allow users to start composing at like bar 2 and by pressing play anywhere after bar 1 would bypass the patch change command at the start of play.

2 Keep the patch select screen up until user press ok.

I know the patch browser behaves like this but staring at a synth module with 1500+ sounds in your face can be intimidating. I like how streamlined the patch select screen is.

ORIGINAL: Susan G

Hi planist-

I'd like that, too. In the meantime, you can do something similar by assigning the solo buttons for both tracks to a group with different initial settings. Then clicking S on one turns it off on the other & vice versa.

-Susan

I suffered for years A-B ing with that big clunk in the middle while my mouse pressed all the Mute and Solo buttons necessary to shift the sound.
Now I can atleast bouce to a track and have a reference with one click on the bounced track solo button, which automaticly unMutes it.

As for the above discussion of Cakewalk having a decent Plugin Organizer, A student taking VB 101 could develope a better interface than Cakewalk Dumps on us. And all the WORKAROUNDS have limitations and a lot of wasted time for the end user. When a vendor becomes aware that their users Need a WorkAround, they should Fix their Mistake. They will go with the Down and dirty solution everytime if they can get away with it. They work on the premiss of the least amount of work for the greatest profit. Or features that Reviewers will notice. Thats how we get stuck with Video and Surround, while the features everyone uses every day are ignored.

Don

Oh yeah and I still want my auto quantize, peace

Me too.

still some new and useful ideas:

Shazbot

"I was thinking recently that it might be nice to have a "near solo" function. Many times I want to essentially Solo a track, but would like to still hear it with a little bit of the background there for the context of it. Maybe there'd be a configurable setting where when you press the "near Solo" button, everything else drops by 15 dB, or 10 dB or something like that. "

rambeaux

"The solo buttons like a sound board are all well and good, but sometimes I just want to listen to on track, and not have to deselect other tracks that are soloed. I guess this would be an 'absolute solo' like a radio button on old car radios that pop the other buttons out.... "

ghijkmnop

"Maybe it could be set up as a parameter for the solo button, so there wouldn't be a need for another button. "

samahmusic

"it would be great to have the mute tool included in the piano roll view, to be able to mute individual notes. very convenient for working on chord voicings, string arrangements, etc. I realize U can right click on a note and change the velocity, but the flow would be better if U could just toggle notes on and off to see what works best (...) "

REX support and throw in Ampletube LE and Dyad for good measure.