Oh, remove silence that works.

 
Rework of Audiosnap! Lots of specifics but a complete overhaul might be best.
 
At the very minimum, allow quantize to effect ONLY selected transients instead of the entire track. 
 
gabo

stevesweat
a)easy K-meter implementation as an option - with appropriate **VU meters** etc.
 
b)ability to disable/ignore scroll wheel on mouse

+1 ... especially the wheel

I would like a proper wave editor inside Plat. Also I would like the Bakers to develop an add-on program to master a track or group of tracks the way that it is handled in Studio one. You know the way if you make a change to one of the tracks in you mastering project the hole thing is updated to reflect the change, so you could continue with the mastering project. I know that Craig would be in favor of this.

I would like the default behavior for audio clips to be "tempo follows project" (something like REAPER). That would be a great improvement IMO. I'm pretty much cool with everything else.

A tutorial for Drum Mapping
 

quest4success
ACT fixes (yeah, I know I'm the only one), actually you are not!

BTW that wasn't me with a 2nd login - there REALLY is ANOTHER person out there using ACT

Tempo track with time signature markers in the main window?

This might seem far fetched, but imagine being able to call and talk to somebody at Cakewalk who could help you when you've got a problem and can't figure it out. That would be cool.

My biggest hope for SONAR in 2017 would be that Cakewalk as a company experiences a large influx of new growth in a few select areas ...
 
 
1, Increased financial resources in the Cakewalk kitty due to more experienced and first DAW users switching over to SONAR ...
 
2, Increased financial resources made available to the staff of Cakewalk so the developers can spend more time on focusing on developing the program deeper and implementing a few fixes for a couple of longstanding issues a few of us old timers have always wanted fixed ...but never got .....
 
3 , Increased financial resources made available to the Cakewalk company so they can implement a proper company tier structure that includes the resources to hire and set up a proper support systems for both new and old customers alike ...
( FWIW , 99% of the time the forum has served my needs , but in the past I have used telephone support to purchase new Cakewalk products and get a little help along the way )
 
 4,  I would like to see Cakewalk develop a much stronger u tube presence ....
 
I mean no offense by saying this....,it's just a personal observation ....
Some of the Cakewalk videos out there now on u tube seem more like advertisements and they do not go deep enough into the program itself .
 
Having an 80's radio style voice over with a SONAR screen record as an official Cakewalk  u tube video where the action of the screen of whats happening inside of SONAR itself is muted while someone clicks around w a mouse just ain't cutting it   
 
We all  know that there is an abundance of 3 rd party video learning solution's out there .I have spent a lot of money on them ...
The thing is I learned more about SONAR watching a chuckebabys Session Drummer 3 video in the short time it played than I ever did learn falling a sleep to one of the collections of Snooze 3 SONAR videos I bought ..BTW...great vid Chuck
 
What about having some of the Cakewalk in house guys spend a little more time teaching us how to use the program correctly with short , sweet , and to the point official Cakewalk sponsored u tube video's... 
 
Thank you in advance for hearing me out on that one  .
 
As far as a few SONAR features I would like to see in 2017 and beyond ...
 
Staff view improvement's , long over due ...
 
Ripple audio editing since I have had that for many years already . I have gotten used to using it and miss it terribly when it's not there in a music app I'm using ...
 
The Matrix view getting the ability to record audio or midi within a cell .
 
An integrated on-board per track guitar tuner along the lines of what Mixcraft 7 or what Garage Band has ...
it's not only about the guitar ...it makes it easy to map out a sampler when the root note of the sample is not C
 
This ones a stretch ,  Ripple video editing since I have used it with favorable results in another DAW that begins w the letter R....
 
Better metering options along the lines of what Samp has
 
Last but not least ...
 
Gibson give Craig A... a very large salary raise in 2017 so he can finally place an order for a brand new hover car when they come out ...
He is a true SONAR treasure ....
 
The Same goes for Noel  , give him a very large salary raise in 2017 so he can pick up that Gibson hollow body guitar he played and liked a lot at the Gibson booth .
 
edit ....
Whew...after spending so much of this long winded post of mine talking about money .
I must have needed a motivational pep talk just to get off my a$$ . So I decided to put my money where my mouth was ....
I just got done "finally ordering" my SONAR lifetime updates  .
While I was there doing that in the Cakewalk Store I also picked up the brand new Craig A.... e book on SONAR Tips....
Yaaayyy...wooot just doing my part ... 
 
all the best,
 
Kenny
 

Keep this forum in tact and a stable SONAR.

1st topic - the matrix, Kontakt and Heavocity loops.
 
I play some "chords" in HV, making a 12 bar sequence using a couple of loops.  I record a couple of 12 bar loops to SONAR.  I take that "song" into SF to edit, hoping to splice the 12 bar loops into separate loops for the matrix  The last time I tried it the 1st 12 bars worked fine, but my 2nd attempt to cut a 12 bar loop for the matrix seemed to switch tempo so it was playing back at a fraction of the tempo, as if SF didn't splice correctly or SONAR saw the whole clip.  Not sure what I screwed up and I haven't had time to go back and try it again (although the same thing happened before).
 
Even without this probable operator error, it would be nice to see how someone else (like you) would make loops in Kontakt etc, cut them up into smaller "performance" loops and load them into the matrix (and have them play at the correct tempo).

1. Fix ACT
2. Redo the menus. If I were a newbie the menu system would drive me crazy. Example: if I want to insert a measure is it in the insert menu? No, it is in the project menu. I know that from a programming point of view it makes sense but from a user point of view? In addition, the track view us getting really cluttered. How many different ways do you need to insert a track? Now with Lenses the track view is starting to resemble 8.5 where instead of icons menus are everywhere. Anyway, pretty small potatoes for a great program.

Something like Ableton's Beatseeker, a plug that allows the sequencer to lock to a live drummer (or other rhythmic source material).
 
A simple chord creation app that would allow the user to assign multiple notes to any midi note.