Ripple edit is an awesome addition to SONAR editing features and it could save a lot of time when editing raw speech recordings.
 
I have just one problem: If I forget current state of the edit mode, I either have to open the Track View menu and see if a menuitem is checked or just guess and try deleting a hole. I desperately need an icon (in Control Bar?) showing the current status; 50% of my guesses go wrong and I have to undo, switch edit mode and delete hole again.
 
Is there an icon for this already? I checked the documentation but could not find it. Also, if it's in the Track View, I just haven't seen it (would not be the first time ;-)). 
 

Hi. It is done via the menu.
There has been a lot of questions about getting an icon of some sort to visualize on/off state.
All the best.

Thanks... So I am not alone with this.
Btw, if Cakewalk does not make an icon, I could make Duckbar show a toggle button in the Track View menu bar. Anyone interested of 3rd party solution?

I'd be interested 

panup
Thanks... So I am not alone with this.

Not at all! The only workaround I can suggest for now is assigning ripple edit enable/disable to a keyboard shortcut. Enable, do the edit, disable. That's what I do with Vegas when working with video, even though it has a ripple edit "on" indicator.

I've assigned Ripple Edit | All to the 'K' button (K as Ripple Edit, you know..). It makes toggling faster but makes toggling blind as there is no single pixel on the screen that indicates the status.
 
Ripple edit is so good feature that it earns its own icon.
 
 

I think Sonar needs something like this in relation to Ripple Edit:

Can ripple edit ripple all tempo changes????

Jimbo 88
Can ripple edit ripple all tempo changes????

Sure can!  just tested it to confirm.

promidi
I think Sonar needs something like this in relation to Ripple Edit

 
I was thinking that maybe a good place would be a button next to the Offset mode button in the Control Bar's Mix Module, replacing the global read automation enable/disable button. Not sure how useful the latter is, especially now that we have Smart Swipe.