Something else that occurs to me whilst using the Piano Roll.
It seems that when you select a group of notes, you cannot draw through the velocity channel and change velocities for those selected notes only.
This makes editing the velocities on drum tracks quite tedious.
I know you can dock the Event Manager and manually type in values for selected notes, but it seems strange to lack this option for editing velocities interactively.
Sonar and multi-out plugins.
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- KVRist
- 391 posts since 28 Apr, 2002
Well, since you ask... I think that Sonar's piano roll is an area that needs a good looking over. But rather than piss off a lot of people by going point by point over everything that's wrong with it and being called a troll, I'd just say take a look at some of the other sequencer's piano rolls and judge for yourself. There's a lot I like about Sonar, and a handful of things I don't like (two tracks for every single synth being one of them), but the piano roll is the absolute show stopper. I struggle with it to do anything, and I honestly just can't program drums in it. The tools are just too restrictive and require the changing of tools to do what requires a single tool to do in some of the other sequencers.Brandon {Cakewalk} wrote:
Is there something specific that is bugging you about the piano roll now?
Anyway, don't take it the wrong way. I just thought I'd take this opportunity to say this because it's something that's always baffled me about Sonar.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 3627 posts since 5 Jan, 2006 from UK
Agreed. When you use the piano roll in either eXT or FLS (I don't think that's trolling, it's just using evidence to support a theory) you become quite accustomed to being able to toggle between every tool with just different combinations of the mouse buttons and command keys (Shift, Cntrl and Alt).
Also, coming to Sonar from a different direction, the 1 midi and 1 (or more) audio tracks for each individual synth becomes quite confusing. (though I just use 'M' to bring up the track list and hide all the audio tracks and then go to the mixer to set them up independantly and not crowd the track view). Co-incidently, is there a reason why you would want the synth audio tracks in the Track view itself? I've always been kinda used to the MIDI and Audio (recordings, samples etc.) in the Track view and Audio/Synth outputs in the Mixer view paradigm. Does Cubase have a similar system to Sonar in that respect?
Also, coming to Sonar from a different direction, the 1 midi and 1 (or more) audio tracks for each individual synth becomes quite confusing. (though I just use 'M' to bring up the track list and hide all the audio tracks and then go to the mixer to set them up independantly and not crowd the track view). Co-incidently, is there a reason why you would want the synth audio tracks in the Track view itself? I've always been kinda used to the MIDI and Audio (recordings, samples etc.) in the Track view and Audio/Synth outputs in the Mixer view paradigm. Does Cubase have a similar system to Sonar in that respect?