As to what the community longs for featurewise, here is an old list:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/VS700-feature-request-master-list-m2676731.aspx
 
 
Maybe a good small and potentially easy start (for the experts among us) would be to check, why the OFFSET-Button light is not lighting up.
 
 
 Just to pick out a few things I dearly miss:
 
7- OFFSET button should light when engaged
That' a bug obviously. Makes it easy to forget, which mode you're in.
 
11- While in "Layer view", +8/-8 buttons scroll through layers of a channel in bank of 8
When you want to mute/unmute Layer No. 9+, there's no way to get there via the VS700c.
 
2- ALT+ Jog temprarily disengage snap settings to allow the Now Time cursor to scroll faster through the project
SHIFT+Jog works fine (scroll slower), but a "scroll very fast"-option would be awesome. I need the mouse for that frequently.
 
3- Allow zooming in the PRV with the console
Another thing where I have to fiddle with the mouse frequently.
 
1- Remember last selected prochannel modules when changing channels selection
You can't go through your project channel by channel and check e.g. the EQ on each channel. You need to press SEL and EQ, next channel SEL and EQ, next channel SEL and EQ. Because every time you select a new channel, the first Prochannel-Item is shown. That feature would be very nice.

 
 
Of course there are many other inconsistencies, esp. with the Channel Strip Controls. Often you don't know, where you at or which channels parameters you're adjusting... the following three bugs fall in that category:
 
4- When clicking on an open window with the mouse, keep the focus on the currently selected prochannel module
Clicking on any window (like a random VSTi) changes the actually selected Prochannel-Module of your actually selected channel back to the first one (eg. from EQ to Compressor), for no sensical reason.


5- When the EQ button is lid, double-clicking a VSTi in the rack should lit the "ACT" button while displaying the ACT parameters on the console 
Double-Clicking on an VSTi in the rack instantly shows you the ACT values in the channel control strip. However the EQ button keeps being lid.

6- When the SEND button is lid on the console, double clicking a VSTi in the syth rack should display the ACT parameters and light the ACT button on the console
Double-Clicking on an VSTi in the rack while in SEND-Mode in the channel strip control simply blanks out the display. SEND keeps being lid.
 

Since the thread is resurrected, I want correct my previous posts: Visual Studio Community 2015 can compile these plug-ins. Short instruction: http://www.azslow.com/index.php/topic,263.0.html
 
"The experts among us" claiming so in this forum can be counted by fingers... on one hand... and you do not even need all 5 fingers

azslow3
"The experts among us" claiming so in this forum can be counted by fingers... on one hand... and you do not even need all 5 fingers

:D There might be some silent experts though. ;)
 
Thank you for your work regarding that matter!
 
 
There's another thing I just figured out:
Keyboard "B" toggles the Browser/Synth Rack (open or hide).
The SYNTH RACK Button on the vs700c opens up the Browser/Synth Rack. It does NOT, however, toggle it. So you cannot hide the Synth Rack by pressing the SYNTH RACK button again.
To hide it, you need to press SHIFT+SYNTH RACK.
 
The funny thing is ... SHIFT+SYNTH RACK can also open the Browser/Synth Rack. :D
So basically, SHIFT+SYNTH RACK does, what SYNTH RACK should be doing in the first place.
No need in wasting that SHIFT-Function.
 
So, this could also be an easy task potentially, to implement the correct toggle-behavoir to the SYNTH RACK button on the vs700c.

And update to my post about Visual Studio Community 2015.
Unlike ACT MIDI and MackieControl, VS700 plug-in is build using some closed source libraries. These libraries was not compiled with VS2015 and so VS700 plug-in can not be easily rebuild with it.
 
 

Grent
Maybe a good small and potentially easy start (for the experts among us) would be to check, why the OFFSET-Button light is not lighting up.
 
7- OFFSET button should light when engaged
That' a bug obviously. Makes it easy to forget, which mode you're in.

Not really a bug... I have not found in CS API how to get this parameter out of Sonar. The button function like a computer keyboard shortcut (you can really bind it to some key, it is called "Envelope/Offset Mode"). These shortcuts was never thought to give any feedback for current state. And so: impossible to implement till Sonar provides such functionality.

azslow3
And update to my post about Visual Studio Community 2015.
Unlike ACT MIDI and MackieControl, VS700 plug-in is build using some closed source libraries. These libraries was not compiled with VS2015 and so VS700 plug-in can not be easily rebuild with it.
  

 
Thanks az, for sharing ... so no chance unless you buy the developer studio license?

FreeFlyBertl

azslow3
And update to my post about Visual Studio Community 2015.
Unlike ACT MIDI and MackieControl, VS700 plug-in is build using some closed source libraries. These libraries was not compiled with VS2015 and so VS700 plug-in can not be easily rebuild with it.

Thanks az, for sharing ... so no chance unless you buy the developer studio license?

With proper version of it... If you get payed version 2015 that is not going to help.
I guess Cakewall will at some point compile Sonar with 2015 (that we can trace by runtime it installs). At that moment we can ask to rebuild proprietary libraries for CS.