- Clip Gain - The way Pro Tools uses it.. a must have!  ; )

Some have said a Chord Track, but I'm unsure what this is. I would love a Chord MFX with the capabilities and functionality of this.

It would just be more streamlined the the faff that this one takes and the extra track I don't need.
 
It's long been omission from the MidiFX, I've wanted this since Sonar 7, and added to previous wish lists. We have an arpeggiater  plug in, and a chord MFX would allow this to be far more useful to those not proficient with a keyboard. Would allow users to experiment with richer chord shapes. Strum allow you to control the strum and picking technique, from one hand, whilst the chords are produced from the other. Being able to just play one key rather than 4 or 5 from one hand, would allow a better focus on the strum/picking hand.
 
Seeing what this guy does with his Midi chords is mind blowing for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ar_3nGx2w
 
Same video, but jumped to 16 mins where he focuses on the Plug in
http://www.youtube.com/wa...layer_detailpage#t=933
 
 
ARRRRRRGHHHH I WISH MY WX5 WASN'T 10,000 KM away!!!
 
 

Scoot
Some have said a Chord Track, but I'm unsure what this is. I would love a Chord MFX with the capabilities and functionality of this.

It would just be more streamlined the the faff that this one takes and the extra track I don't need.
 
It's long been omission from the MidiFX, I've wanted this since Sonar 7, and added to previous wish lists. We have an arpeggiater  plug in, and a chord MFX would allow this to be far more useful to those not proficient with a keyboard. Would allow users to experiment with richer chord shapes. Strum allow you to control the strum and picking technique, from one hand, whilst the chords are produced from the other. Being able to just play one key rather than 4 or 5 from one hand, would allow a better focus on the strum/picking hand.
 
Seeing what this guy does with his Midi chords is mind blowing for me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ar_3nGx2w
 
Same video, but jumped to 16 mins where he focuses on the Plug in
http://www.youtube.com/wa...layer_detailpage#t=933
 
 
ARRRRRRGHHHH I WISH MY WX5 WASN'T 10,000 KM away!!!
 

 
WANT! Although I'm probably just intoxicated by how lovely the music sounds in that video. Let me loose on that setup and I very much doubt it would sound as harmonically sublime as that 
 
In fact I know this sounds rude but I just wanted him to shut up so's I could listen to the music. 

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Spencer

Mod Bod
2) Add the ability to move the first measure (start) of a project to a later time to give you negative measures for count in and pre roll purposes.

Project > Insert Time/Measures; or you can set a count-in for recording or recording or both in the metronome options.

This is not the same.
 
There are many times things are done before the song actually starts, before Measure 1.
 
What is being asked for here (and since CWPA8) is the ability to move measure 1, and all following measures, to the right, to allow for a given amount of time for preroll/abstrat timing.
 
The end result I am looking for is when I decide that a song start on measure one, then I can move it to where I want and all other measures will still be the same.
 
IOW, I could start with a sloppy drum roll (because I like it)  and then when it starts on the one, first measure, I can play a 12 bar blues progression and have it end on the 12th measure, instead of the 13th, or 14th, or 15th, (depending where the sloppy roll started at.) But here is the best part, once i get further in the song, I know where it's gonna turn around, 24, 36, 48 and so on and so on.
 
No matter what progression you go with, it's just easier to do the math the further you get into the song when it starts on Measure 1! And not the 2 or 3 or 4 measures!

wizard71
1 option in prefs to only record one track at a time ie If another track is selected somewhere else it is un-armed upon arming the track you wish to record.
 
Thats all i want for Christmas

 
+1
 
(I want it NOW )

Oops my mistake

Don't get me wrong, Sonar X3 is working for me, and my quibbles have grown smaller with every release. No other DAW offers me the flexibility and ease of use. But there are still things, not so little things really, that I wish for.

(and no, I was ubable to limit it to three... so I went with lucky 7)
1) timeline/tempo map overhaul
2) Improved tempo detection
   probably my single biggest frustration today. Almost any piece benefits from 'breathing', that is, the tempo changes slightly from time to time. If I could get tempo detection to work I can play the timeline in, but that is difficult with the current AudioSnap, and almost impossible with the current tempo map.

3) better automation drawing tools, or maybe something like expression maps
   my second biggest frustration... and maybe I am just doing it wrong, but I find this to be very frustrating, and I need to do it a lot! If anyone wants to show me the error of my ways please do!
   
4) nested folders
   not everyone needs these, I know, but when I have 100+ instrument tracks it would make managing them (or even finding them) a lot easier.
   
5) arbitrary routing for audio and MIDI
   it would let us be so much more creative!   

6) easier ACT configuration
   hopefully, by the time X4 is released I will have finished mapping everything to my physical controllers<G>, but I do wish it was easier to manage.
   
7) fix the bugs in the plugin manager
   nuff said. While it would be lovely if it was a once and done thing, it isn't for me.
   
There are other bugs, but really, I seldom run into problems these days. And when I do they are usually self-inflicted (e.g. running out of memory or horsepower.)

I have been pleased with the progress since V8, and hope no one at baker central considers any of these to be complaints - rather, they are just things that would make this customer's DAW life a bit easier. I recognize that not everyone shares these priorities.

sharke
I would love to see a major overhaul to the whole controller/parameter/automation mapping process. Currently it's confusing, temperamental and doesn't work in every situation. You should be able to just map any parameter on any VST to a controller with a couple of clicks, and not have to mess around with separate MIDI tracks, ACT (which is problematic to say the least), configuring effects as synths etc. Whenever I've watched tutorials done in Abelton I've always been struck at how simple and painless it is to map a controller to an effect knob and record the performance. It's such a huge part of modern music production (especially in electronic genres) I always felt that Sonar is a little behind the times in this respect.

Yes!  This really is essential in 21st century music production.  The tragedy here is that the functionality to map a parameter in Sonar to a hardware controller knob/slider/button/etc. already exists.  What's more, it's fairly straightforward to set up.  However, these settings are *not* saved from session to session! 
 
It seems that with a relatively small investment, Cakewalk could reap a fairly large return by just saving these settings with the rest of the data that's saved with a project.  Maybe I'm missing something here...

chord track like the one in Cubase 7.5 is really handy for us limited keyboard players.