POLL for Features in Sonar 6: HERE

possibility to mark clips in 2 ways:

like cubase (just a part of the clip)
like sonar (must be the whole clip)

big vote for the marker playlist

Forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but I would love to be able to rename the inputs and outputs in sonar.

Thus the cumbersome "Fireface input 1 ASIO LEFT" or whatever it says could become something like "Universal Audio 1"

It's not that big a deal seeing as I've memorized what's going in and out of my interfaces, but would just clean up everything a bit. And it seems like it would be REALLY easy to implement. But I don't know because I don't write software.

just my two cents.

Matt

Don't know if this has been suggested already (haven't got the time to read through all the 19 pages), but the Opera web browser has a beautiful feature I'd like to see in Sonar as well: the ability to move between open windows by scrolling with the mouse wheel while keeping the right mouse button pressed. In Opera, this opens a small context menu with the names of the open windows (tabs), and you just scroll to the one you want to go to. In Opera you can make a keyboard shortcut for this, which wuold be nice in Sonar, too (I have alt+<).

I have sent this suggestion to CW through the feature request.



wb

New sonar 6 wish list

- Film scoring features to rival Digital Performer (who is currently the leader in this regard)

- Some kind of Cakewalk version of MOTU's "Chunks" concept. This allows seperate
cues to be created within one sonar file that can then be laid down onto a longer
SMTPE time line.

- calculation of tempos and cue hit points, including the ability to reccomend meter
changes, etc

- Project5 style pattern arranging

- Improved notational staff views and editing interaction. Chord analysis.

- Improved scripting. CAL is great, but it needs a facelift. Would love to see CAL expanded to include GUI capabilities. See Myriad's Harmony Assistant for an an example scripting environment which allows users to get access to all the note data and also to present rather elaborte GUI's for interacting with the script. This really enables the program to be expanded in unthinkable ways. Right now this kind of expansion to Sonar is only possible with MFX that I know of, which requires development skills and tools that exceed the limitations of many musicians. Also, MFX has its own limitations in terms of what it can do..it really only filters midi data as it goes through..it does not have access to all note data on all tracks all at once, which is really what is needed...such as what CAL can do.

I'm sure many of you have had problems with this.

No, never had that trouble...try using a smaller font. lol just a little joke

if you mistakenly double click on a clip it goes to the Loop Construction view.

Hey Mr. Doug, you can change the double-click behavior in View Options.

I wonder if Cakewalk even looks at this suggestion list or if they have there minds made up from before...Like maybe half of what goes into the "next" version is just leftover features they didn't get to (in time) last year for version 5?

Sorry if these have been said before, it's just a small wishlist of some things I'd like to see. Most of them are really LITTLE things, but they make worlds of difference.

Scissors tool: Make it a line, having the cursor is kinda arbitrary. Cubase's slice tool uses a giant line that runs from top to bottom on each channel so you can see EXACTLY where you're cutting.

Markers: The ghost markers (when you're relocating them) should extend down across all the audio clips so you can see exactly where, in relation to your waveforms, the markers will land.

Snap and grid: Needs a grid. I can't emphasize this enough. I can make due without it, but it's getting to me. I need a grid. Also, with snap, and I may just be missing something, but there should be multiple paramters to set the snap to, like (1/4 notes, clip edges, markers) and you can get rid of one or all or keep them.

Timestretching: I would like to be able to timestretch clips without making them groove clips. Cubase does it perfectly, just drag the edges and it does the rest.

EQ: I can't really offer a solution to this issue, but its kinda odd that the default EQ (Sonitus) offers 6 bands, but the channels on the mixer only display 4. Also, I don't know if it's possible, but I would like a way to change the default EQ plugin. If I buy a really nice EQ plug-in, I would like to have that set up as the default instead of having to rely on akward templates and whatnot.

AUX and Buses: They should have their own sections in the mixer. I don't like lumping my Busses together with my sends.

Mixer icons: put the icons in a drop-down menu. I hate the windows file browser, please PLEASE don't make me use it if I don't have to.

RANDOMIZE VELOCITY FEATURE! I've only seen one program that does this and it's Pro Tools (and it's probably PT's only redeeming feature). It's an awesome feature for humanizing drums and the like. I just got all these excellent acoustic drum samples, if I can randomize the velocity, it would almost sound like a real human (almost).

CTRL+D = repeat This is such a universal function. I was astounded to find it does nothing in Sonar. If I don't want to use a groove clip, I shouldn't have to. It's very easy to press CTRL+D and just have clips repeat one after the other.

There are a few others I can't think of off the top of my head, but these are the big ones. Like I said, just little things that make the workflow much better.

Thanks.

I'd actually like to be able to switch soundcards without having to shutdown and restart sonar. It's a real pain and you can easily switch soundcards in other programs like ableton live.

Hi matteo-

i mean: i want to see both velocity, CC1 and pitch bend in three diffferent windows under the note event in the piano roll....

You can see any MIDI parameters you want in the Controller Pane of the Piano Roll View in S5. Try the demo and see if it meets your needs.

-Susan

yes, of course, SIMULTANEUOSLY!
when i edit midi tracks, i want to keep an eye on velocity, CC and pitch bend all at once, and i don't want to switch continuously between different parameters!

Hi matteo-

yes, of course, SIMULTANEUOSLY!

I missed this back in July, sorry, but yes, you can see them simultaneously by choosing "New Value Type" in the "Edit MIDI Event Type menu" (the drop-down in the PRV). It's explained in more detail in the "Adding Controllers" Help Topic.

HTH-

-Susan

Sonar 6 - all included?