GARYTHEBRIDGE
I found the SWA Tutorials extremely useful and , not to forget, Brandon and Seth's Sonar X2 demo on Cake TV !

Thanks for the support Gary. Glad you find them useful.

jkoseattle
 
Lastly, I can't find where to change the keystrokes for these tools. I've had keyboard shortcuts for them for many years, but now I have to use the F-keys apparently.
 

 
http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X3&Lang=EN&Req=Menus1.181.html
 
Many answered your other questions, but thought this might help 
 
-Rob
 

brundlefly

jkoseattle
 
Yes, I meant if you select notes and slide them over in PRV. You can't, that I know, select notes and move them AND have the tempo and pedal markings move along with it.

Check Select Controllers with Notes in the Controller menu of the PRV to have pedal controllers move with notes.

Much joy experienced with this post! Thanks!!!!

CakeAlexS
> I think the biggest hurdle for me is zooming and navigating to what I'm interested in editing quickly
 
Zoom shortcuts
SHIFT click on Zoom buttons = Make largest/smallest zoom.
CTRL + Arrow keys = Best way to Zoom!
Hold down Z, Select area = Zoom in on that area! Alt-Z undos this!
F = Fit tracks to the window
SHIFT + F = Fit project to window
AlT-Z = Undoes a screen action.
SHIFT Double click a clip = Maximizes it.
F11 = Full screen mode
SHIFT-Z = Enable/disable auto Zoom on tracks.

OK, so I have some issues with these. First off, it seems the Z + Drag select option only works when I'm viewing clips, not notes in Track View. Also, the Alt-Z undo option only appear to work in Track View, not PRV. That's annoying. Is there a keyboard shortcut for switch between Notes and Clips? I know I could look it up, and I even have the keyboard shortcuts page favorited now thanks to someone's helpful post, but hell, it's easier to just type and ask :-)
 
Ctrl-Arrow keys has been in use by me for years, but it only zooms vertically. I am getting used to the pretty slick magnifying glass thing at the top of screens for horizontal zooming. But it feels like they haven't quite gotten to a Holy Grail moment with all this yet.
 
Lastly, in Track View, I can drag up and down in the little keyboard strip to vertically zoom, but how can I adjust the view up or down without zooming? I will often want to zoom in, so I drag up on the keyboard strip, but then my zoomed in notes fly above or below the track!

I really think you should watch this video even though it's designed for users going from X1 to X2 Jim:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw5z9BKWD-I
 

Thanks, I'm watching it and learning a lot. Very cool stuff. I feel both a little sheepish that I came on here initially to rant, and glad I did, because I've gotten so much genuinely valuable assistance from everyone. 
 
While I'm on the podium here, is it possible to mute individual notes in PRV? I so often want to take out a little passage and try something else, but I might want to go back to what I had originally. I want to select some notes in PRV, hit Mute Selected Notes, see some visual representation of the muted-ness of them, mess around a while, then later go back and easily un-mute them. Since I'm doing so well here, I'm now reasonably confident someone will come on here within 90 minutes and say "Oh yeah, it's Ctrl-Shift-Alt-F6+M=Alt+F22" and I'll be thrilled I can do that.

So...don't you think it's time to change the thread title so people will know this has actually becone a helpful thread?

Anderton
So...don't you think it's time to change the thread title so people will know this has actually becone a helpful thread?

Done.

Cool! Thanks!! I think many 8.5ers will find all this advice useful and now they'll be able to find it.
 

Well played. This has been a great thread to watch.