I use it ALL THE TIME!! I'm old school composer and I have to see the notes as I'm writing. Plus its great to print out a quick part if I have a live player in my studio. I know its basic - but I have to have it for reference. Could it be improved, of course - but for now I just add articulations by hand.  If Staff View was removed I'd stop using SONAR. Gotta see my notes man!

The worst and most likely thing which could happen to Staff View in Sonar is that it will get no further development attention.

Removing it would make no business sense, because part of the user base would drop it and switch to another application.

As I've indicated elsewhere, I'd be happy if they would just address Susan G.'s triplet issues.

If they created a Samplitude type combined editor - even better.

My personal opinion is that if you want to print world class notation - export your stuff into a world class notation program.

Here's hoping for Sonar 9 (or whatever they are going to call it).

I haven't used the staff view much. Mainly because it's no good at the things I need it to do. But if it was better I would use it more.

I wanted to print out some sheet music for live players but the printing options are no good. It only lets you choose between x numbers of set sizes and it usually looks like a mess. I just want to be able to choose how many measures there should be per line so I can organize it better. (Pardon my English. I don't know how to explain it any better)

I don't usually respond because there are some very talented people who beat me to the punch.  I use staff view all the time.... but then I learned to read music when I was 5 (in my 50s now), was in a musician's union when I was 12 and played music for spending money instead of working at McDs.  For me, it is extremely important that we not lose reading music as a skill.... it is no less important than losing any of the world's languages.  I still have (some, small) hope that musicians can agree when nations can't.

One quick note at the start: I spent $70 on a small Wacom Bamboo pen tablet.  It makes working with the staff view a heck of a lot easier and faster than using a mouse.  It is also a superior input/edit tool in Midi Event view.  That said:
 
I have gotten actual productive use out of the staff view.  My daughter plays bassoon in her junior high band.  Solo and ensemble contest rolled around.  I took her solo piece, with its piano accompaniment, and copied them into Sonar via the staff view.  Edited them carefully to be sure they were accurate.  Then exported two versions of the file to CD: one with a Dimension Pro bassoon part and piano, the other track with just the piano.  She was able to hear exactly what her part sounded like and had the piano track available to practice with.  I also hooked up the microphones and recorded her playing along with the piano track.  Then played it back so she could hear what she really sounded like.  All the other kids went before the judge having played with an accompanist maybe two three times at best.  She got a gold medal.  She was the only 7th grader in her school to make the Regional level on bassoon.  She is now interested in computer music production and is always watching over my shoulder.  Hopefully I can keep her interest up and do something with it.
 
That said the Sonar staff view lacked the ability to put expression into the music.  The sound was kind of robotic.  Also, I had to set up two tracks for the piano: one for treble clef and one for bass clef i.e. left hand and right hand.  Maybe I did it the wrong way but I got the output I needed.  It seems as though the staff view hasn't been improved at all above an old copy of the original Cakewalk software I had back in the 90's.  Sure would have been nice to scan the music in with my cheapo home laser printer/fax/scanner instead of writing it in.
 
98% of the time I input via microphone, direct in guitar/bass, step sequencer etc.. 
 

Hi Zenwit-

Also, I had to set up two tracks for the piano: one for treble clef and one for bass clef i.e. left hand and right hand.

SONAR has separate Treble and Bass clefs available in the layout, but typically you'd use the "Treble/Bass" (aka "Grand Staff") option for Piano. That adds both and joins them automatically.

-Susan

But maybe it's meant for all affordable notation software.

Yes, it looks like they were sticking within an "affordable" range. Sibelius Student is there, and Finale's PrintMusic.

-Susan

I definitely agree that the Staff View as-is is better than no SV at all. I still use it for some things, and would hate to lose it altogether. I really don't think there's any danger of CW getting rid of it completely, but it's very hard to guess what the plans for its improvement might be, if any. It's been at least a couple years now since Alex Westner made some encouraging noises about it.

-Susan