Didn't see it mentioned in a quick read-thru of this thread, so... if you haven't discovered them already - Screensets are your friend.  (You may even get rid of your dual monitor setup.)  This for me was seriously one of the greatest enhancements to the UI over 8.5  Get one of FastBikerBoy's videos on this subject.

wruess
Didn't see it mentioned in a quick read-thru of this thread, so... if you haven't discovered them already - Screensets are your friend.  (You may even get rid of your dual monitor setup.)  This for me was seriously one of the greatest enhancements to the UI over 8.5  Get one of FastBikerBoy's videos on this subject.

Thanks wruess.
 
I can't believe I replied in this thread earlier and didn't mention them. They are up there in as one of the top improvements from pre-X series to now.
 
I also agree about the no need for dual monitors. Although I still have multi monitors I use them as one big full width view now. I find the multidock combined with screensets has done away for the necessity of two monitors, they are now more of a nice luxury.

jkoseattle
 is it possible to mute individual notes in PRV?

Alt+Right-click will mute notes in the PRV. If you right-click+drag select several first, you can mute them all at once. Also there's a mute tool in the HUD toolbar (hotkey T) - right-click the eraser icon and choose mute. This can mute/umute notes in the PRV, and also by sweeping sections of a clip in the track view - sweep in the bottom half to mute, and in the top have to unmute. Works with both MIDI and audio.
 
Easy way to find this stuff is to search keywords in the SONAR Reference Guide PDF. A lot of these capabilities predate the X-series, but the gestures and key combos may have changed.

jkoseattle
I use Ctrl-Space and Space both a great deal, depending on whether I want the Now time to stay or to rewind.

 
I use the W key (hit just once) instead of Ctrl-Space. It's just easier for me.

jkoseattle
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.

 
If you find the color (outline) of muted note events too weak, which I do, you can change it in Edit -> Preferences -> Customization -> Color.

I want to say thank you to jkoseattle for staying with this thread and having an open mind. The members that posted tips did what they do best. Take an unhappy poster and steer him to an appreciation of the X series. 
 
 

Ha, you're thanking me? You guys are doing all the good work here, I'm just soaking it in.
 
But indeed, you all really have turned me around. My daughter is an artist, and uses Picasa to store all her images, but has never really sat down to learn it, and claimed this evening how much she hates it, and I heard myself telling her "You just need to spend some time with it to learn how it is designed for you to do things and you'll like it a lot better" and that advice came to me straight out of my recent experience with this thread.
 
And now I know how to mute notes!! Although, brundlefly, I don't understand the clip sweeping gestures, I couldn't figure that one out. No matter, I'm usually much more note-centric than clip-centric anyway. As I mentioned earlier, I'd prefer to not have to use the concept of clips at all. But in playing around I discovered that Alt-clicking on a clip will split it. Yet another huzzah for that little discovery. (Alt-clicking in PRV will split an individual note in two. I can't think of a reason I'd ever want to do that, though.)
 
So, any way to not see the velocity skyscrapers in the inline PRV View? It used to be that hitting C in PRV (done accidentally 90% of the time, btw) would move them from their own pane right onto the piano roll and back, but not only does that not do that in the inline PRV, it also no longer works in the real PRV.
 
Ctrl-Left and Right Arrows were not zooming horizontally for me, then I looked in my shortcuts and saw that they were assigned to Go To Previous and Next Marker, probably a customization I made in like 1997 and have kept ever since. So I switched that to Alt-Left and Right, which works. However, Ctrl-Left and Right still retained their old function as well. Even though the dialog indicates in the text below the list of keys that those keys are bound to zooming, I went in and re-bound the keys to zoom in and out horizontally, but even after explicitly setting that, they still go to previous and next marker, like they have for years. So I closed Sonar entirely and re-opened it, and the keyboard shortcuts say Ctrl-Left and Right are bound to horizontal zooming, yet they still move to previoud and next marker. I also bound the V key to show/hide velocity tails, but that didn't "stick" either, and still displays the video pane. What am I doing wrong?

This doesn't really pertain to the original topic, but I just want to say I personally don't find it helpful at all when thread titles get changed. I get then intent (not wanting a forum full of "omg this software is awful" and such), but marking them as "solved" or something should suffice. Completely renaming threads is confusing.

jkoseattle
 
So, any way to not see the velocity skyscrapers in the inline PRV View? It used to be that hitting C in PRV (done accidentally 90% of the time, btw) would move them from their own pane right onto the piano roll and back, but not only does that not do that in the inline PRV, it also no longer works in the real PRV.
 

Shift+C

props to jko for sticking it out with thread. your open mindedness is very welcome.

 
 

robert_e_bone
I have a confession to make - I still use Step Sequencer for drums.  I keep meaning to get to PRV, just never quite have enough coffee in me to invest the needed learning time.
 
I WILL get around to it, it's the 'when' that eludes me...
 
Bob Bone
 

I am guilty of the same thing.  However, I did buy a bag of Starbucks new blend, so will try to do it this weekend between games.
 
 GO SEAHAWKS from a 12th man in Nevada.