Sonar X3d or X4 wishlist

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
#4 is prob not going to happen. We told people who bought it that we wouldn't turn around and include it. They are actually priced pretty well considering how good the DSP is...specially the Concrete Limiter and CA-2A Leveling Amplifier.
 

JCody
Playlist Fixed

californiamusic
Clip gain via Pro Tools Style (Visual editing) would be NICE  ; )

Jlien X
...Or abandon that and start an open feature request forum like the one in PreSonus forums.

Bug Fixes

1. "Disk May Be Full" Error On Record
2. Easily Corrupted Projects
3. Duplicate Notes On Quantization
4. Sonar Icon Remaining In System Tray After a Shut Down (or SONARPDR.exe in Task Manager)
5. Disappearing Sonar (i.e. you're working in Sonar and "poof" you're on your desktop)
6. Autosave "Cannot Find or Save File" Error (happens when there's already an autosave version of that file)

GUI/Workflow Enhancements/Feature Requests

1. Smaller GUI: A Scalable, Vector-Based Console View, or Different Console View Size Options 
2. Smaller GUI: Thinner Console View Strips
3. GUI - Console View: Larger Effect Bins, Smaller Fonts
4. GUI - Console View: More Visible Sends
5. GUI - Toolbar: Smaller toolbar
6. GUI - Consider a "Non-Touch" option of the GUI if the larger items are there for touch screens
7. Enhanced Signal Routing: Allow recording VSTi's to Audio
8. Enhanced Signal Routing: Routing Audio Tracks to Other Audio Tracks (i.e. "tracks as busses" instead of separate busses)
9. Improved Signal Routing - Faster Buss Routing (I should be able to shift+select in the Console view to group tracks, right click and have two options: 1) Route tracks to a new buss, 2) Route track to an existing track/buss (with a sub-menu showing the existing tracks/busses)
10. Improved Output Assignment On Multi-Output VSTi's. All multi-out VSTi's should have a "Channel" button in the plugin menu that would show all available outputs with checkboxes next to each, clicking the box would create tracks for those outputs in the console and track views.
11. Improved Plugin Navigation/And "Pin"-ning Plugin UI's - Users should be able to click from plugin to plugin on a channel directly from the plugin menu bar, instead of having to go back to the Console or Inspector views. One GUI would be open at a time by default, unless the user "pinned" or "locked" the GUI open, at which point any subsequent plugins would open in a new window.
12. Opening VSTi's From the Console View - I don't even need a button, perhaps just let me double click on empty space on the Console view and have that open the GUI.
13. MIDI - Non-Destructive Swing, Quantization, and Groove Quantization. Add a menu in the PRV that allows for realtime, non-destructive editing of swing, quantization, and groove quantization.
14. Smaller GUI: Smaller (or Hide-able) Toolbar/Ribbon
15. Properly Supporting Mono Plugin Processing for UAD (leads to a roughly 40% increase in UAD plugin counts)
16. Console GUI - Mono/Stereo Interleave and Phase Reversal buttons on all audio/instrument tracks.
17. MIDI PRV (and general window rules) - Open PRV (and other windows) with "Last Viewed" state (i.e. open the PRV exactly where/how it was when I last closed it).
18. Improved Project Versioning. See Studio One's fantastic implementation where I can save and revert to entirely indpendent versions/mixes of projects all within a single file.
19. Save recorded MIDI data in the Project Audio folder (like it were an audio recording) instead of in the CWP file. This way, if a project somehow does get corrupted, I still have the MIDI tracks.
20. GUI - Fullscreen Console View
21. Console View: Stereo Pan Pots - Still hard to believe I can't pan stereo tracks independently without having to go Channel Tools or a similar plugin.
22. Gapless Audio
23. Proper Instrument Tracks - Think Simple instrument tracks that seamlessly allow for MIDI or Audio effects
24. Even Fewer Pop-Up Windows - Does pasting really need a pop window? Clicking and dragging an instrument from the browser? Stop asking me what I want to do and just do it.
25. Simplified Audio Snap - This feature has become harder to use in the X series IMO (specifically tempo mapping a live performance), and it wasn't that easy to use before.
26. Plugin Effects that can send MIDI should not have to be instruments.
27. No More "Plug-in Properties" (just make the plugins work with things like tempo-syncing without having to edit the properties)
28. Simplified Snap and Event Durations. I was never confused about what my Snap or Event Durations were before the X series. Some of the features that were created to simplify things, seem to have made these features more difficult to use.
29. A little Staff View love.
30. Varispeed Playback/Recording.
31. Allow Me To Change Buffer Settings (i.e. Open ASIO Control Panel) or Change Preset "Buffer Profiles" From the Toolbar. I switch from low latency (recording) to high latency (mixing) quite often, and it would be nice not to have to go to Edit - Preferences - Audio - Open Control Panel each time. 
32. Pro-Tools Session Import (if legal/possible)
33. OS-X Version. In case I ever drop the PC platform (which some days, I'd like to)

Andrew Rossa [Cakewalk]
#4 is prob not going to happen. We told people who bought it that we wouldn't turn around and include it. They are actually priced pretty well considering how good the DSP is...specially the Concrete Limiter and CA-2A Leveling Amplifier.