Sonar 8 Wish List

If this has been mentioned prior, please accept my apologies. Since I don't work for Cakewalk I don't have the time to read 17 pages of posts.

Do to having uninstalled and reinstalled Sonar 8 I discovered that the uninstall utility is incomplete.

My Wish: The uninstall utility should remove every aspect of Sonar 8 installation. This includes every directory, VSTi, registry entries, etc. It should give you the option to retain certain aspects of these same items in the event you are using them with another products such as Sonar 7 for example.

The uninstall utility currently is primitive at best.

Actually, this feature should exist for every Cakewalk product.

Humbly,
Lance

I wish for a gain reduction meter in TL64! Love the sound but I think a gr-meter would be very handy on a leveler plug-in...

Proper full screen mode like Ardour (or Firefox for that matter - hint if you're on Firefox hit F11).

Cheers
Child

How about a browser for Pattern Brush with a way to audition patterns from the browser.

I have hundreds of Pattern brush patterns, I would like to organize them in folders such as Alternative, Blues, Soft Rock etc...and inside of the folders would be Styles listed by tempto for example.

At this time I have to scroll through hundreds of individual patterns select one, then if I want to use a variation of the same pattern, I have to scroll through hundreds of patterns to get back to where I was.

A browser with a search engine and a way to audition them with a GM Drum kit and Midi player would be great.


How about also using the pattern brush for other patterns such as Bass guitar, keyboards, guitar, etc... using the same folder options, browser and search engine within the Pattern Brush Folder. I know it can be done now to brush in a bass pattern but we need a more effecient way to browse, search and audition them.

With a embedded Midi Player and the ability to select an instrument such as Bass, Drum, or Keyboard. Initially it could just be a 1 channel Midi player with the ability to change basic midi instruments to audition with their respective midi file.

Pattern Brush is a tremendous tool with a lot of potential, but at this time it is too limited to a scrolling method of selection and takes too much time to go back and forth. Lets have a floating window or tabbed window that stays open for quicker access.

I wish Enhance the navigation, like nodal video compositors (Fusion, nuke, toxik shake) or 3d software (houdini, maya, softimage), the work should be faster if we can conect nodes and navigate with the mouse bottons and a hotkey, and if the graphic interfase uses the GPU (graphic card) power.

I wish when you typed the name for a track into one of the tracks e.g 'Acoustic Guitar'...that you could choose a font size...that way I could make it really small so most of the name fits in and I don't have to use abbreviations.

You can widen the track pane by dragging it to the right...As for using abbreviations, engineers have be doing so for a long time because there was no way to widen a channel strip on a console...

I am new to the forum. I am using Sonar X1 and love it so far. I use multiple monitors for video and 3d work and would love to see Cakewalk add support and functionality for multiple monitors. Maybe some default layouts that would automatically utilize and take advantage of the 2nd, 3rd and/or 4th monitor. It would be nice to just click a button and select between 4 or 5 different monitor layouts.

Then again, maybe they already have something like this. Does anyone know?

Thanks

Well, welcome to the forums, but this would be more relevant a question in the X1 forum, because this SONAR 8 thread is old as heaven.

Secondly, already earlier SONARs supported multiscreen, so I suppose X1 does, too.

I suppose it's mentioned in the feature list and explained in the users manual, but you never know, nowadays.