tlw
Project section markers along the lines of Logic Pro - a track where you can block out sections of the project (e.g. verse, chorus, intro etc) and shift them around to change the arrangement with all the relevant parts of all tracks moving in sync.

Yeah, that would be nice 

1) Minor staff view fixes (triplet handling, etc.)

2) Chord pad and assistant as mentioned above.

3) A chord track which not only affects MIDI, but polyphonic homogeneous audio or Acid loops. (Ok, pretty over the top)

Global freeze would be nice.

MarioD

robert_e_bone

MarioD
1-improved CCC
2-a simple or automatic way to extract a tempo chart from an audio track
3-no more updates that would make a perfectly running and rock solid function either unstable and/or unusable
 

Unless I am not understanding - you CAN create a tempo map from an audio track, using Audio Snap.
 
Bob Bone
 

Yes I know.  The key words were simple or automatic.  I have played with Audio Snap in the past and found it difficult to use.  Have things changed?

I don't think Audio Snap has changed too much, but I never have used audio snap for anything other than to build a tempo map for imported songs I am building midi-version covers for, so I really have no idea on its other uses.  For what I did, I just followed the 3-4 steps that the documentation listed, and it worked fine.
 
If there is some other way to do it, I am all for it - I was just trying to give you something that you could maybe use until some other tool becomes available.  :)
 
There are zillions of things that Sonar and its components offer, that I may never try, as I am pretty much a keyboard player that fell in love with being able to record songs with crazy numbers of rich sounding tracks.
 
There are some really good ideas in this thread, and I hope the Cakewalk folks can get an idea from them on the kinds of things users would find helpful for future product functionality.
 
Here is the documentation steps I followed,to build a tempo map in my project that was synced to an imported audio clip:
 
To sync the project tempo to an audio clip
  1. Select the audio clip(s) that has the desired tempo map.
  2. Press ALT+A to open the AudioSnap palette.
  3. Click the Set Project Tempo From Clip button on the AudioSnap palette.
 
  The clip tempo map is copied to the project tempo map so the tempo maps are identical.

Note 1: The Set Project Tempo From Clip drop-down list lets you specify at which resolution     the clip’s tempo map should be copied to the project tempo. The options are as follows:
 
               Beats
              Measures (default)
              Clip
 
Note 2: If multiple audio clips have their Clip Timebase property set to Musical, changing the project tempo will affect the relative positions of the audio clips. When using the Set Project Tempo from Clip command, SONAR will offer to convert the timebase to Absolute.
 
Bob Bone
 

kevinwal
Global freeze would be nice.

Try using lots of Melodyne and leave all clips open!

ampfixer
2. Whatever Bapu wants
 

World Peas?

Great input and suggestions.  As great as Sonar is (and I truly believe the best is yet to come) let's not forget that it's nearly impossible for one piece of software - no matter how great, that does so much on so many different levels, to be all things to all people.  
 
Very easy to see that we all use Sonar differently.  Some see a glaring need for improvement in many different areas while others are more than content with the product as is.  
 
However, from what I'm reading, it looks like most users would like to see...
 
1.)  Improvements (or a complete overhaul) to Audio Snap
2.)  A suite of mastering tools
3.)  Greater stability and/or reliability
4.)  Improved to audio editing functionality
5.)  Improvements/changes to the staff view
6.)  Greater control over UI customization
 
etc., etc., etc.,
 
Please keep 'em coming.

1. Improved Piano Roll/Drum Maps/Midi editing. I mean it should be ideal. Not just good or OK. No one should say that he don't like something of that.
2. Improved routing/sidechain abilities. I understand that there is backward compatibility that must be considered. But if some features can be added, it must be added. Other DAWs went far ahead in this field.
3. Improved GUI. More colors, buttons and widgets should be customizable. All users are different, they use software in different ways, with different purposes, on the different hardware, so why not give them ability to set up their working tool to make it more efficient.

Pearled Wheeze: A rare affliction suffered by those who inhale copious amounts of pearl dust.
 
sorry

Would love to have something like expression maps.
 
I know.  I am a broken record.  I will keep posting this every time a features question is asked until one of these two things happens:
 
1.  Cakewalk succumbs to my persistence.
 
or
 
2.  I abandon Sonar for that other product (don't want to do it) that has them.

 1 Varispeed 
2 More and better notation (staff View)
3 A "P5" project theme

1) Improvements to the matrix view. At least to directly record into a cell.
 
2) ACT II
 
3) Better browser with tagging

MarioD
3-no more updates that would make a perfectly running and rock solid function either unstable and/or unusable

+10

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