Please more film scoring features before I finally have to jump ship to Digital Performer.

- Hit point handling and calculation (note, fit to time doesn't work properly)

- Frame by frame control of the NOW time. Need to be able to use one of many different jog shuttle controls to move one SMPTE frame at a time through the project, advancing the video also.

- Streamer, punch and click visual video overlays.

- Be able to have multiple cues in one sonar project file, each one starting at its own 0:0:0:0 (and measure 1 too), but corresponding to a different section of the imported video file. Then be able to combine these cues into one longer end result...all within the same sonar project

Probably been asked for a thousand times already but here's another:

1 Please please please let's have a true stereo sidechain compressor and easy routing options. Even Reason has a quality stereo sidechain compressor in it. Gating doesn't cover evry use and it is shocking that SONAR does not have this capability/

2 Please please please allow a single MIDI track to control MULTIPLE soft synths without having to clone the MIDI track.

- Most of Sonar's last improvements is in audio. A lot of midi recording features are left behind (I feel Sonar 4 would need to definitely step up the game here in this department). Sonar's midi recording features basically haven't changed.


Yes, indeed. Speaking of the midi operation function. Sonar is behind Cubase several years..


What Cubase really bother me is in the piano window, we can not see the marker . Thus I can not add a marker in it and mark the chord symbol. And we can not select different track in the piano window, every time I must go back to the project window and select another track. In addition, there is no a mute track button and a arm track button in the piano window. So I dicided to use sonar6. I hope Cakewalk can improve sonar's midi editting function. If you can do what I mention above, Sonar would be a perfect workstation for me....its sound quality is terribly great !!!

new fr for gui

Playlist function like Protools has.

similiar to the long awaited feature of different loops that can be set and then jump from on to another in different orders.

I tried posting to the FR link, but couldn't, so I'll post a couple of my ideas here. Keep in mind, I'm on SONAR 4, so these may already be in place.

IDEAS: A "clip board" and/or a split track view. Both of these requests are to allow for faster editing.

Clip Board:
The "clip board" feature takes the editing out of linear form. Let's say you have a track with some mistakes in it. You recorded several takes of the various fixes on another track. You slice up the fixes into replacement clips. Normally, you would have to find the location on the original track where you will do the fix, mark it, then scroll back to find the replacement clip you want to use, then drag it forward, or backward, to the spot you marked. It's awkward. The "clip board" is basically a separate window that you can drag the good "clips" to for temporary holding. So you find you best clip fixes, drag them to the "clip board" or window, then find the places to be fixed on your original track and drag from the "clip board."

Split Track View:
Alternately, the "split track view" would work similar to the split view in Microsoft Word and other programs, where you can split the view and, in one view, scroll to a certain point in the document, and, in the other view, scroll to another point in the same document. Except, in SONAR, the split view would allow you to scroll one view vertically AND horizontally to some point, and in the other view scroll vertically AND horizontally to a different point This would be another way to simplify the editing procedure described above.

The features I want is:
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*Track view: Gridlines that follows higher and lower resolution when you zoom in or out a project. The look of the gridlines could be more pro with thinner lines
The function I want: When I zoom in in the track view I want the gridlines to automatically change from whole, half, triplets etc to 64 etc, but now the gridlines follows the setting in the audio snap menu. Its easier to know where I am in the track when I zoom in big time, when the gridlines are automatically adjusted! The more I zoom in, more gridlines shows. The more I zoom out, less gridlines shows. The point is that the track view aint gonna feel crowded with gridlines when the audio snap is set to 64 and the track view have zoomed out max, but are detailed when I want it to be without changing the audiosnap settings all the time.

*Console view: Getting the shift-click to work in console view to select all tracks that are between a selection to make a quick group. I want to select a track range without clicking on every track i want to add...A waste of time

*Console view: Option to show the Volume meters wider and longer then the standard are today.

*Console view: An options to see more than 4 plugins in the FXbin. At least 8 plugins would be nice...
*AFF import/export

*Console view: Make mixer snapshots of the settings in the console view that you can toggle between. So you can compare different mixes

*Track view: GUI inconsistency - An option to have the same 3d graphics in the track view as the graphics in the console view...

*Track View: GUI - There are a lot of wasted space above the inspector. It could be used to something useful...

*Track view: Move multiple track into a folder with mark ---> drag ---> drop!

*Clip FX: An option to hear the tale of an Fx when effects are applied to a clip.

*A filemanagement tool with a minimize audio file option (like cubase). This function deletes every part of a audio file that are not used in project. It cleans every project up in an easy way

*Plugins: An option to disable x-ray in the plug-in properties

*Plugin window: Bypass button in the plugins dialog bar

*Plugins: Include a "big fat samplerbaby"

*Plugins: Implement the right settings from the start for VST's that are known for the user to cause problems without changing settings. For example to "allow resizing window" for absynth etc...

*Audio hardware: Being able to change audiodrivers without restarting Sonar

*The aud.ini and other .ini files needs to be incorporated into an advanced option setting in Sonar. There is no other way...

*Import Project 5, Acid and Ableton live projects directly into Sonar. I'm just dreaming...

*Loop explorer: Improve stretching engine for audio files that are not acidized. The idea is to make every audiofile in sync with the project when its auditioned in the loop explorer

*Loop explorer: Midi groove clip preview in the Loop Explorer

*HELP: The manual for Sonar 7 has to be as deep as the manual for Sonar 5. The sonar 6 manual is just for getting you started. And its really just for newbies

Okay, I'm just gonna put this in here too so I have covered all the relevant threads:

I want an audio clip fade editor! Like in Cubase/Nuendo! When doing long fades the three predefined slopes don't cut it! I'll pay the upgrade price just for this (well maybe not but darn close)!

Sven

Here's a few requests inspired by having recently used REAPER on a project, most of which I already wanted in SONAR anyway, but it is interesting to see that they are being implemented successfully elsewhere.

• Ability to save files into a lossless compression like FLAC / Wavpack
  
• I would love the CWP file format to be replaced with a text / XML based format. This would be brilliant for backing up, trouble-shooting, creating suplementary utilities, and retreiving plugin presets from other mixes
  
• I would like my track volume envelopes to be independent of the overall track volume fader (is this possible already?)
  
• The take management could be improved - track lanes are very cool, but it should be easier to create split points and cycle through the takes for each sub-section. Also, when collapsing back, the active selections should be shown at the front.
  
• An option for the PRV just to work with the selected MIDI clip, not the entire track (like in Project5)
  

And some others, that perhaps I've asked for before, but it doesn't hurt to ask again...

• Loop explorer to play MIDI / P5 patterns into a softsynth of choice
  
• Improvements to creation of ACID files workflow (remember working directory, keep bit depth and sample rate)
  
• Loop explorer - option to play ACID / MIDI at original tempo instead of project tempo
  
• Song sections (i.e. jump to markers in a set order during playback)
  
• Fix the annoying note names not lining up with note channels in PRV view bug
  
• Rename instances of soft-synths (makes life easier setting up drum maps)
  
• Remove silence feature should make slip-edited clips
  
• Richtext project & track notes
  
• Ability to attach notes to individual audio / MIDI clips
  
• Drum maps should be editable in a text-editor instead of the arcane .map format. Or at least make the drum map editor easier to use
  
• With the pencil tool active in the PRV, it should be possible to deselect notes
  
• Option for the PRV not to select all instances of a note when clicking it to preview the sound
  
• Some way of getting plugins like EZdrummer loading their samples automatically on project load, without having to remember to leave the plugin GUI showing
  
• Bundle a nice guitar amp sim effect (runs and hides from the anti-doo-dah brigade)
  

Be able to detach the "tracks" console view from the "bus" console view. That way they can both float and be put on different screens.

ORIGINAL: cGar
Be able to detach the "tracks" console view from the "bus" console view. That way they can both float and be put on different screens.

Yes, this would be nice (assuming that it can't be done already). Buses have taken on a life of their own, and deserve a view of their own, or at least an option for it.

I'd like to see PRV remember settings. So when I close a window and get back in I dont have to get rid of velocity, change note names and resize before I can edit the hats comfortably.

Ideally it would remember setting for each channel/instrument.
I cant believe I still have trouble getting it to be "drum style" even when its set to channel 10 and its using SD2, which ships with Sonar!

ORIGINAL: MArwood

Time shift and stretch like live and pt and cubase.

e.g. drag audio clip endings - real time stretch

In Sonar - CTRL-Drag

Max Arwood

Maybe a forum feature request thread that automatically dissallows stuff that's already in sonar!!

ORIGINAL: planist

Time shift and stretch like live and pt and cubase.

e.g. drag audio clip endings - real time stretch

Sonar 6 already has this.