I had sorta forgotten this but IIRC Cakewalk hired Benstat about a year or so ago. For those who don't know Benstat created a LOT of mods for X1 with Sonar Plus: http://www.sonarplus.co.uk/Pages/About.aspx
 
I think this bodes well for the future of the Sonar X series.. and certainly should dispell and thoughts that Roland may be discontinuing Sonar. Surely they would not have hired Ben if they were not planning to use him and his ideas. It would make no sense at all otherwise. If they were not going to use him and his ideas and were going to go in another direction they would surely have left him out there to make the best of what existed because... well, why should they care? If you think about it... this bodes very well for the future of the Sonar X series and I imagine that we will see Ben's fingerprints all over X3 and perhaps somewhat in any b or c versions of X2... but I think they will save most of his work for X3. I would.
 
Anyway... a little food for thought. Some positive thought!!
 
Julien

Here's Hoping!

Keni

I had no worries about the future of Sonar anyway!!

jbow- this is a helpful post.

I see your line of thinking. I actually wasn't aware of Sonar Plus at all, and reading through the stuff on that link I'm very intrigued with the notion that some of those cool features might possibly make it into the main Sonar offering.

Some things I've been wishing for are already there in Sonar Plus. Very cool!

I feel like if Sonar were to be ditched, it would simply become what Adobe Audition was, a re-invention of Cool Edit Pro.

Maybe Ben can help them come up with ways to turn things off in SONAR X3.  Things like that blasted Docker which seems to dock things that I don't want docked when I'm in a mad hurry.

I was just thinking the other day about how they hired that mod guy.  I hope he's still there.  Sonar's design needs extensive fine-tuning after the X1 overhaul.  There should be a separate "skin" for touch, so all of us non-touchies can enjoy a more efficient workspace.

Mod Bod
Maybe Ben can help them come up with ways to turn things off in SONAR X3.  Things like that blasted Docker which seems to dock things that I don't want docked when I'm in a mad hurry.

 
Totally agree!  What a flaming nuisance, hate it, hate it!
Please let's have an option in Prefs.  (Most will then switch it off I am guessing....)

Mod Bod
Maybe Ben can help them come up with ways to turn things off in SONAR X3.  Things like that blasted Docker which seems to dock things that I don't want docked when I'm in a mad hurry.

 
Totally agree!  What a flaming nuisance, hate it, hate it!
Please let's have an option in Prefs.  (Most will then switch it off I am guessing....)

Mod Bod
Maybe Ben can help them come up with ways to turn things off in SONAR X3.  Things like that blasted Docker which seems to dock things that I don't want docked when I'm in a mad hurry.

 
Totally agree!  What a flaming nuisance, hate it, hate it!
Please let's have an option in Prefs.  (Most will then switch it off I am guessing....)