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How about Loop Marker like Cubase

For those of use that don't have Cubase how about a description or a picture would be even better

How about bug fixes first?

Crash when enabling/disabling Event Filter MFX
Disappearing Note Names in Piano Roll view

Then for features...

Basic audio editing features - Improvements to sample accurate selection without a mouse would be a big start. Also real time audition/change settings for audio commands
Add ability to audition MIDI clips in Loop Explorer view (might do this in some limit capacity now, but it's so frustrating to use can't consider it functional)
Add ability to paste more than 100 repetitions
If CAL isn't going to be brought into the 21st century find a suitable replacement based on some established standard scripting language (VB Script, JavaScript, ActionScript, etc)

George

Thank you, Johnny.

-customize toolbars
-keybindings for everything (including the new INLINE PRV options)

Definitely a lot to read, and I may have missed this if someone said it already, but I'd like to reiterate my reuest for the Loop Explorer to be able to play back MIDI loops as well as audio.
MIDI import is improved in Sonar 5, but I'd still like to see Loop Explorer functionality for MIDI.

Audio Metronome - an adjustable level control in Track View

ORIGINAL: tommydee

input quantize would be great (though I'm learning to live without it). Dont give up Keep the dream alive

i'd love key bindings that toggled the now-time between the left and right markers when working in loop mode (like Reason has... it's invaluable to me).

better looping... i've done everything I can and I still get crackles when looping playback that I never get in PT or Reason.

the ability to name clips when they record according to the track they record on. (i.e. if I set up a track called "Bass", all clips recorded to that track should start with the file name "Bass_etc... ) This makes project management WAY easier.

the ability to click and drag within a clip to highlight a selection and not have to go up to the timebar to do so.

three cheers for input qt, yah, yah , yah

option for PRV: edit MIDI data "only selected" / "all"

Something I like to call a marker playlist. You just insert markers like usual. Then you have a new screen where you can simply call up any marker that is in your project, and put them in chronological play-order. Per marker you may also specificy the numer of times this section must play, (a ' section' ends at the first new marker in the project). And then press ' marker play' , and SONAR will play only the markers you have specified, in the order you have specified. It could look something like this:

intro 1x
chorus 1x
verse 2x
chorus 1x
bridge 1x
chorus 2x

Note that this only requires 4 actual sections (intro, verse, chorus and bridge), yet I can build and play an entire song with it.

Sounds simple? Imagine the sheer possibilities. You could construct entire songs without having to actually copy and paste the clips in that order. Many songs are based upon repititions.. why should I have to actually have identical parts in my project twice? This also would allow me to experiment with different sections following others (how well they fit together), without having to go through the drag of copying and ' sliding over', since that doesn't work quite reliably to me.

Icing on the cake(walk) would perhaps be an 'apply' button that would actually build the song according to my marker playlist for final mixdown. Or after applying, you canmake some variations on the sections I repeated earlier, just to keep them interesting.

Please please implement this feature! I work with songs containing many many different pieces, but I usually just try just a fraction of the possibilities since it is much too cumbercome to actually move them around manually.

Cubase has this feature - the play order track. It's a damn good idea - but I have never used it personally. I'd kill to have the clip grouping functions mentioned earlier and a better version of Cubase's time warp - where you can pull the grid to match transients i.e. matching the grid to live drums so that your midi notes are tight with the drummer - the current extract tempo function is not that great.

Cheers,
H

When you right click on a note in the piano roll view, it brings up most of the paramteres of the note.

I would like to have an option here to delete the note, rather than have to go to the eraser tool to delete.

Eric

Ahh The Beauty of The Plymouth Satellite Custom .....
I had one when I was 16.

For 5.3 or 6 at the latest, to remove this Delete dialog box and/or don't have the effects automatically selected, per this thread - http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=779151

shaz, that reminds me of something.

Lets have PLEAAASEEEE a asignable keybinding for DELETE.
ctrl-x would be good if there wasnt always a dialog appearing.
i would like to have a simple keystroke.

and you know why? cause everytime i delete a clip (and that is more often than u think ) i have to move my whole (!!!) left arm to reach the delete button on the right side of the keyboard. almost every keybinding i made is on the left side, reachable within seconds and i only have to move my fingers/lefthand.
so again another vote for FREEEEE keybindings for everything.

two things:

I wish there wa a "Tab" "Shift Tab" for auditioning notes in the piano roll. Just like in many other sequencers, you press tab in the piano roll view and it selects and plays the next note, either right next to the currently selecte one, or 100 mesures later. Shift Tab does the same, but backwards. It is 100 times better than the clumsy scrub tool. A scrub tool it good for audio, not midi. I think Sonar is making it a point of honnor, or some dogmatik principle to not incorporate that simple feature. Get over it Cakewalk! Everyone who used the "tab" feature knows it works better.

Working to picture: When working to picture, it never occures that one will want to have measure #1 of his project, cued to the first frame of a picture. Why?, cause it is just not practical. First how can you put down a "two second academy beep" if your project's start time is later... Second, you need the two first mesures for pre-roll, metronome pre count, sending Sysex data, whatever. That said, when setting up the project timecode offset, there sould be an other paremeter. It sould be:

Set "enter mesure/beat position" to timecode value. That way, if you want the first beat of your project cued to picture start, you leave it as is. If your music cue starts on a pick-up, and you nead two mesures of pre count for the musicians to get into the swing, you set picture star at the 4th beat of mesure 2.

As it is presently, doing this involves lots of unnecessary calculations cause the time code position of any measure other then the first, depends on tempo. Just as locked markers stick to its timecode positions whatever the tempo, one sould have the hability to cue precise measure/beat cue to a fixed time code position, whatever the tempo.