I have no need to upgrade to X2 unless Staff View is improved.

I feel quite sad tbh ... I seems like I won't be upgrading to this new version of Sonar - even though some of the content and features are improved / look great.

A small move like Ben's sonar plus's note icons would have been an improvement...

Will keep an eye out for improvement's via patches.......  gutted..

I've given up on the idea that Cakewalk may improve notation. They've gone backwards with Sonar to the point where I can no longer edit my MIDI files in Score View. I really hate Piano Roll and Event Mgr....they're extremely clunky compared to Score View. That's the real drag for me. But for scores or lead sheets, it's much better to just export a MIDI or XML file to Finale and work with it there. However, I really don't understand why Sonar can't even come up to the level of Logic in notation.

Hit 'em again...harder, harder... http://www.cakewalk.com/s...ct/featurerequest.aspx

Eddy Yates


Hit 'em again...harder, harder... http://www.cakewalk.com/support/contact/featurerequest.aspx

Well that does us no good... You can't select Sonar X2 for a feature request. 
 
Really, our best hope is to get the Staff View working as well as it ever was - ala Sonar 7, according to those in the know, so really, a bug report would be more appropriate.
 
The feature request should really be to have Roland buy some company with better MIDI notation editing software and have it inserted into X2.
 
Hey - here is a company they could buy just for the notation editor:
 
http://www.anvilstudio.com/
 
 

Although I don't have Sonar X2 yet, I still have Sonar 8, the notation does frustrate me. I used to do all my notating in guitar pro until I discovered the notation function in Sonar. I thought it was perfect at first, until I discovered it doesn't allow for grace notes, dead notes, ringing, and other effects that guitar pro and no doubt other notation programs such as sibelius and finale allow. Has anyone gotten around this problem?

I started with X1, so I don't know if it's improved over Sonar 8 - but most that I've read, it's the same Staff view (added Music XML export during X1 expanded upgrade).

I just use the Staff view to check on the score (not using it to edit notes) as I record midi tracks - so, it's fine for what I do. When I'm done - I'll do the XML export to Notion 3 for touching up.