Midi editor - display note names on the notes. So a C3 will have a small C3 written on it, similar to Cubase/Ableton/Reaper. Makes multi-voice harmony easier in the late hours. :)

Midi editor - ability to customize tool functionality like Sonar 8.5 (regardless of how efficient people claim the smart tool is, you can do far quicker editing in 8.5 once you customize the tools).

Staff view general improvements - like separate snap and note entry values, control over multiple voice handling, better note placement on the staff etc. Nothing that would take weeks to code, just simple upgrades that would help many users.


Spend as much time alpha/beta testing as possible and make sure the tests are accurate. The amount of bugs in X1 was beyond a joke, and beyond recent releases of PT/Cubase, both of which have a far larger audience to cover (PT HD, cross platform etc).

Obviously this is complete speculation, but I reckon we're not going to see an X2 this year. There have been plenty of hints that the release schedule is changing. X1c is set for August; I can't imagine that there'll be an X2 release just a few months later.

A resource check. A warning before resources run out.

A test wich will tell you at what samplerate/bitrate the amount of tracks and plugins can be run. In advance.

Fix X1 before even thinking about X2

Isn't this thread like asking for advice on what kind of high performance transmission to put in a car that stalls all the time?

Twigman


Fix X1 before even thinking about X2

Please. :)

  I'm with you. Also wish Sonar would improve the Score editing and printing. Pre-Mac Logic had decent Score printing and editing...not sure why that is not a Sonar priority. I don't want to go into Finale every time I want to print out a simple part for someone to play.

 I realise this is quite an old list but don't understand this at all...........
 

• Auto-save
  
  • Fix the audio glitching that occurs when Auto-saves kick-off while the transport is playing

or

• Provide the ability to postpone Auto-saves while the transport is playing

 
AFAIK Autosave has never saved while the transport is running, it's one of the 'myths' and reasons often cited for not using the feature. Simple fact is though it doesn't. If a save becomes due while the transport is running Sonar postpone's it and then saves as soon as the transport stops.
 
I have autosave permanently switched on and it has never saved once with the transport running. Nor does it touch or overwrite the original file, which is another one of the myths...

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2632877 make it were we can use external controllers ie footswitches and pad contrlloers to shift now time to markers other than using next and previous example: how about going to 9th marker or 2nd marker from playing inside marker 5 to basically any marker to any marker etc..... while playing it live. Fix the stability and give us gapless audio so we can use our program in more creative ways and start to make sonar a tool for live usage. Could care less about using scoring in sonar at this time that is something you work on after you get it gapless and stable and pulling up old projects properly. also it would be nice to open old projects and have the plugins settings from the old project work maybe an option to add in a system that reviews the preferences from a previous software version used in old projects that compares the current preferences so that preferences that cause problems can be avoided and altered in the old project.

A small point, but mouse back button support in the browser would be useful. It's horrible when a program doesn't support mouse wheels and navigation buttons....makes me feel like it's the 90's again!