Thanks Jerry. As usual you’re the only one who has really contributed to a reasoned view of Sonars notation capabilities and seem to be able to make excellent use of it. Your music is well received and that you do it using Sonar shows your willingness to work with what you have and not complain about what you don’t have. Notation shortcut comings are well documented in this forum and have been for years. I know your contributions to the improvement of Sonars notation editor have been quite considerable over the years and despite little progress you persist.

Just want to say thanks for all your efforts and especially for all the great music.

You can get a good deal at the moment on Studio One 3 Pro plus Notion, that should cover you
 
https://www.presonus.com/products/Notion

If you go with Cubase, you need the Pro version. Artitst and the rest have an inferior notation editor, where you can only have 4 measures in the view, and  you cannot scroll through (which means you can't select a phrase longer than 4 bars).
 
I find the company and forum to not be very responsive. With Reaper, you'll have a large and enthusiastic forum, much like Sonar's. I consider them to be the two best such forums around. you'll get plenty of help, both from members but also from the devs, if you ask them.
 
Does anyone know much about Mixcraft's notation editor? I watched their tutorial on it, but they only showed one instrument in the view. If you can't have multiple inst's in view, it would be pretty useless. With Reaper, I can have the entire orchestra up. I can scroll up or down, left or right, infinitely. I can select a passage that's 12 bars long if I want to. In short, it's extremely functional. I keep the notation view open, it's my main window. Another thing, if you work in Event List, Reaper's is exactly the same as Sonar's.