Sonar 8 Wish List

Re:Sonar 8 Wish List (Kalle Rantaaho)

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:06:07 GMT

Well, welcome to the forums, but this would be more relevant a question in the X1 forum, because this SONAR 8 thread is old as heaven.

Secondly, already earlier SONARs supported multiscreen, so I suppose X1 does, too.

I suppose it's mentioned in the feature list and explained in the users manual, but you never know, nowadays.

Re:Sonar 8 Wish List (guitarman01)

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 09:13:22 GMT

I am new to the forum. I am using Sonar X1 and love it so far. I use multiple monitors for video and 3d work and would love to see Cakewalk add support and functionality for multiple monitors. Maybe some default layouts that would automatically utilize and take advantage of the 2nd, 3rd and/or 4th monitor. It would be nice to just click a button and select between 4 or 5 different monitor layouts.

Then again, maybe they already have something like this. Does anyone know?

Thanks

Re:Sonar 8 Wish List (papa2005)

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 04:16:33 GMT

You can widen the track pane by dragging it to the right...As for using abbreviations, engineers have be doing so for a long time because there was no way to widen a channel strip on a console...

Re:Sonar 8 Wish List (montezuma)

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:03:27 GMT

I wish when you typed the name for a track into one of the tracks e.g 'Acoustic Guitar'...that you could choose a font size...that way I could make it really small so most of the name fits in and I don't have to use abbreviations.

Re: RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (arvmetal)

Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:15:02 GMT

I wish Enhance the navigation, like nodal video compositors (Fusion, nuke, toxik shake) or 3d software (houdini, maya, softimage), the work should be faster if we can conect nodes and navigate with the mouse bottons and a hotkey, and if the graphic interfase uses the GPU (graphic card) power.

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (Montanna1053)

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:14:47 GMT

How about a browser for Pattern Brush with a way to audition patterns from the browser.

I have hundreds of Pattern brush patterns, I would like to organize them in folders such as Alternative, Blues, Soft Rock etc...and inside of the folders would be Styles listed by tempto for example.

At this time I have to scroll through hundreds of individual patterns select one, then if I want to use a variation of the same pattern, I have to scroll through hundreds of patterns to get back to where I was.

A browser with a search engine and a way to audition them with a GM Drum kit and Midi player would be great.

How about also using the pattern brush for other patterns such as Bass guitar, keyboards, guitar, etc... using the same folder options, browser and search engine within the Pattern Brush Folder. I know it can be done now to brush in a bass pattern but we need a more effecient way to browse, search and audition them.

With a embedded Midi Player and the ability to select an instrument such as Bass, Drum, or Keyboard. Initially it could just be a 1 channel Midi player with the ability to change basic midi instruments to audition with their respective midi file.

Pattern Brush is a tremendous tool with a lot of potential, but at this time it is too limited to a scrolling method of selection and takes too much time to go back and forth. Lets have a floating window or tabbed window that stays open for quicker access.

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (Rothchild)

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:05:26 GMT

Proper full screen mode like Ardour (or Firefox for that matter - hint if you're on Firefox hit F11).

Cheers
Child

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (Legion)

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:49:06 GMT

I wish for a gain reduction meter in TL64! Love the sound but I think a gr-meter would be very handy on a leveler plug-in...

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (LanceJ)

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:36:00 GMT

If this has been mentioned prior, please accept my apologies. Since I don't work for Cakewalk I don't have the time to read 17 pages of posts.

Do to having uninstalled and reinstalled Sonar 8 I discovered that the uninstall utility is incomplete.

My Wish: The uninstall utility should remove every aspect of Sonar 8 installation. This includes every directory, VSTi, registry entries, etc. It should give you the option to retain certain aspects of these same items in the event you are using them with another products such as Sonar 7 for example.

The uninstall utility currently is primitive at best.

Actually, this feature should exist for every Cakewalk product.

Humbly,
Lance

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (razor)

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:07:06 GMT

ORIGINAL: fresh101

ORIGINAL: razor

Wow, the replies are so long this may be covered, but we asked that the CPU meter stop flashing... and that wasn't covered in 8.02.

You can turn off the status bar in the globle options if that's what you mean.

Thanks, but no. There are little flashes where the CPU meter spazzes out. I read under a different post that I wasn't the only one where this was happening.

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (Zuma)

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:12:05 GMT

I'm just starting to get into some 5.1 surround projects. It would be nice if Sonar could handle a complete DVD Audio project without the need for third party Apps like Discwelder. I would like to see it all done in house like Samp. Also an AC3 encoder expressly for Sonar, like Steinberg has for Nuendo, would be nice.

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (fresh101)

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:40:46 GMT

ORIGINAL: razor

Wow, the replies are so long this may be covered, but we asked that the CPU meter stop flashing... and that wasn't covered in 8.02.

You can turn off the status bar in the globle options if that's what you mean.

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (razor)

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:22:37 GMT

Wow, the replies are so long this may be covered, but we asked that the CPU meter stop flashing... and that wasn't covered in 8.02.

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List - NOTATION! (daverehnstrom)

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:48:23 GMT

For Sonar 9 (or an update on 8) I'd like to see:

Ability to change how beats are divided up on the grid in the piano roll as well as a metronome that is configurable for triple time, i.e beat 1 and 4 accented in 6/8 and those same beats different from the other grid lines in the piano roll. I do a lot of sequencing that needs to be exported to notation software and it would be very helpful to have this visual aid in the piano roll corresponding to the musical feeling. Also, I sometimes get sent midi sequences for notation in the wrong time signatures (i.e 4/4 even though the actual time is 12/8), and I need to be able to change the time signature without Sonar changing the tempo and also be able to let Sonar stretch the time map with the midi so that tempo changes fall at the right places musically after changing time signature.

A separate tempo scale command would be great, too. Fit to Time just doesn't always cut it.

Can we have that please? It isn't too much to ask now is it:-)

Dave

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (fresh101)

Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:39:35 GMT

Thought I'd add my 2 cents

1. Split layers to tracks

2. off/on button for auto-loop in the loop explorer

3. Zoom in/out and snap to zero for Dropzone

4. 2 more elements in Dropzone for easy drum kit creation (kick, snare, open hat, closed hat) or creating layered velocity sensitive instruments.

5. A way to change NRPN value range. From 0-16,383 to 0-127

6. Add velocity sensitivity to Cyclone and hi/lo filters per pad

7. Better user file management in Beatscape

8. Drum machine mode for Beatscape (mpc style vsti)

9. a draw/add transient tool to loop construction view

10. A way to change multiple outputs at once

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (BJKowal)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:43:31 GMT

Bump.....

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (Marah Mag)

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:32:36 GMT

ORIGINAL: yoe

- Color coding on tracks in the Fader view!

- UNDO QUANTIZE - after I quantize a very large portion of midi, I want to be able to highlight a few notes and just UNquantize them back to the way they were!

You're at least a year too late... try here...

http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.asp?m=1403795&mpage=1&key=

...but don't hold your breath.

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (yoe)

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:20:52 GMT

- Color coding on tracks in the Fader view!

- UNDO QUANTIZE - after I quantize a very large portion of midi, I want to be able to highlight a few notes and just UNquantize them back to the way they were!

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (maikii)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:33:28 GMT

Well, I sure hope they fix the bug with lyrics in Sonar 7, which I have described in other threads.

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (p750souza)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:58:51 GMT

Dont you just press the little green square next to the plugin name?

I've never tried that before. Good!!!

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (plainfaced)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:52:13 GMT

ORIGINAL: p750souza

Many things are quite easy and time-savers.
I wish a better organized insert place to rack plugins on each track with dedicated buttons to bypass and on/off as well..
Many times I need to bypass a single plugin in a chain of couples but when right click on the mouse and use bypass function the whole insert is set to bypass. So the only way is to open the plugin and bypass it. What a time consumming...
I Hate it!

PLEASE, IMPROOVE IT!!!

Dont you just press the little green square next to the plugin name?

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (p750souza)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:34:12 GMT

Many things are quite easy and time-savers.
I wish a better organized insert place to rack plugins on each track with dedicated buttons to bypass and on/off as well..
Many times I need to bypass a single plugin in a chain of couples but when right click on the mouse and use bypass function the whole insert is set to bypass. So the only way is to open the plugin and bypass it. What a time consumming...
I Hate it!

PLEASE, IMPROOVE IT!!!

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (Marah Mag)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:35:25 GMT

Hmmm I would rather Cakewalk focused on core functionality and workflow improvements and did a deal with Sony to offer Sonar users a super duper discount on Sound Forge...and replaced the super duper dopey CD burning "feature" they included in Sonar 7 with CD Architect... even CD Architect LE would be better than that bogus thang....

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List (slickie)

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:45:17 GMT

More extensive wave editor! Make Sound Forge and the like obsolete!!! Can't be that hard to do

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List - NOTATION! (nuts)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:07:58 GMT

I don't want to pay for Sonar 8, i WANT and NEED a Sonar 7.1 WITHOUT BUGS and FULLY FUNKTIONNAL before thinking of a new version.

But....ok. a great library with tags like NI Kore is a must have.

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List - NOTATION! (rotaholic)

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:09:38 GMT

Not sure if it has been mentioned but the automated mute doesnt work well when using a control surface

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List - NOTATION! (spindlebox)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:17:52 GMT

I wish it would just get released so the speculation stops!!!

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List - NOTATION! (Marah Mag)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:16:10 GMT

Sonar 9 Wish List

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List - NOTATION! (Malevol3nt)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:29:04 GMT

You know I really believe this topic should be called Sonar 9 Wish list. People add feature requests for the version that is coming, but usually the developer allready has plans on what new features or bugfixes it will bring in the comming version. So maybe it's best to start making requests for the version after. That way you give some time for the developer to look into it, and if it's a promising feature, put it in their development plans. Right now it's quite possibly too late to add any features from user requests to Sonar 8 (unless really small features).

RE: Sonar 8 Wish List - NOTATION! (MArwood)

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:59:27 GMT

August 6 2008

I want to be able to export/import projects/tracks.

Example:
I have four tracks of audio and midi in a big project that I want to use in another project.

I select them and choose to export as "import file."

I then open a project and select import file, navigate and select the import file.

The four tracks with ALL settings, routings, busses, effects, instruments,... are imported.

Use Track Templates. It does what you want.

Max Arwood