Much appreciated

[onlyinitforthemoney]

Hey Sonar how you doin?

I very much appreciate all your efforts in keeping Cakewalk alive.

And since Sonar 6 (wich in my opinion was peak Sonar) many things have  changed.

POSITION for instance, Position is a module that disapeared  somewhere between Sonar 6 and X1, it was a so useful,

You had a clip selected and you use Position to go at beginnig or end of it, very useful.

Would you be so kind to bring it back?

Thank You

[David Baay]

See Go to From and Go to Thru in global bindings. I have them bound to the original keys F7 and F8.

Edited July 25 by David Baay

[onlyinitforthemoney]

13 hours ago, David Baay said:

See Go to From and Go to Thru in global bindings. I have them bound to the original keys F7 and F8.

I appreciate the time you took to replie, but i'm dumb i don't have a clue what you are talking about.

[User 905133]

Quote

dumb according to the internet = temporarily unable or unwilling to speak.

But I think you mean you have never used keyboard assignments / shortcuts to map a keyboard to Cakewalk/Sonar functions. Possibly you don't even use  keyboard shortcuts.

https://help.cakewalk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360036997613-Keyboard-Shortcuts

• Try this:
  • Type P [for Preferences].  This should bring up Preferences--options you can look at and change.
  • Make sure Advanced (not Basic) is selected. Hint: It's at the bottom of Preferences.
  • In the left-hand column, under Customizations, Click on Keyboard Shortcuts.
  • TIP: If you can't figure it out, there's a HELP button at the bottom.
    • https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=CakewalkSonar&language=3&help=0x200DF

Edited Sunday at 06:08 PM by User 905133
Fixed typo (changes -> change); To add self-help methods for the OP to get help re: Keyboard Shortcuts

[Helios.G]

43 minutes ago, onlyinitforthemoney said:

I appreciate the time you took to replie, but i'm dumb i don't have a clue what you are talking about.

What a response, it's so obvious you're only in this for the money.  😎😎

[Bristol_Jonesey]

9 minutes ago, Helios.G said:

What a response, it's so obvious you're only in this for the money.  😎😎

Good album. 

 

[onlyinitforthemoney]

Don't know who you guys are but my post was a request for future Sonar improvement because of a lost Sonar module.

 

Thank you all for your time

[Helios.G]

19 minutes ago, onlyinitforthemoney said:

Don't know who you guys are but my post was a request for future Sonar improvement because of a lost Sonar module.

 

Thank you all for your time

I'm sorry, I apologize, I just really liked your profile name and couldn't help myself.

[msmcleod]

@onlyinitforthemoney - I'd strongly recommend going through some video tutorials to see how things work nowadays.

I learned most of my workflow on Cakewalk Pro Audio 9, and didn't really change my workflow right the way through to SONAR Platinum.

It wasn't until I joined the beta team (before I was staff), that I made the effort to learn all the new stuff by watching some tutorials.  It was a HUGE eye-opener.  So many things I thought had gone had just been replaced with a different way of doing it, and there are loads of hidden workflow shortcuts I was completely unaware of.

There are a bunch of links in the Tutorials section of this forum, but the ones that most helped me were:

1.  SWA's Complete Sonar X2  : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR1DLE2UIfM&list=PLKRYWdEpbc5PgUgvrNuSvVyfv5qkll0qj and the Sonar X3 follow-up:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX09_s9wsDI&list=PLKRYWdEpbc5MtPslyvpY_tkunB34cvU75

2.  Groove3's Sonar Explained and Sonar Platinum Advanced tutorials (needs a Groove3 subscription or can be purchased)

P.S... don't skip the stuff you think you already know... there's some real gems (keyboard shortcuts/modifiers etc) in there that aren't apparent.

 

 

[Noel Borthwick]

Nothing has been lost. You can easily add custom commands to the custom module like this. See below where I've mapped goto from/thru to buttons on the custom module.

 

[onlyinitforthemoney]

The free Sonar version doesn't have

GO TO FROM

and

GO TO THRU

in custom module

Thank you for your time

Much appreciated

[Bristol_Jonesey]

3 minutes ago, onlyinitforthemoney said:

The free Sonar version doesn't have

GO TO FROM

and

GO TO THRU

in custom module

Thank you for your time

Much appreciated

You have to add those buttons yourself then map them as described above

[Bristol_Jonesey]

1 minute ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

You have to add those buttons yourself then map them as described above

Or, right click an existing one, Rename it, then remap it

[onlyinitforthemoney]

4 minutes ago, Bristol_Jonesey said:

Or, right click an existing one, Rename it, then remap it

Found it

Thanks

I did not think about right click on Custom module

Take Care

[bmarlowe]

Single key shortcuts can be scary though, you have to be careful. I remember panicking over things like a disappearing control bar (I must have inadvertently pressed "c"). 

[onlyinitforthemoney]

My favorite shorcut was Q for Mute

it was great at the far left of the keyboard wit S, E, D for select erase and draw in piano roll

but they changed it somewhere between Sonar6 and X1

Roland did this i guess

Until a programmer gets bored and change it again

Edited Sunday at 01:17 PM by onlyinitforthemoney

[Amberwolf]

2 hours ago, onlyinitforthemoney said:

but they changed it somewhere between Sonar6 and X1

Roland did this i guess

Until a programmer gets bored and change it again

Easy to fix in the Keybindings in preferences.  

[Bass Guitar]

On 7/25/2025 at 7:22 AM, onlyinitforthemoney said:

Don't know who you guys are but my post was a request for future Sonar improvement because of a lost Sonar module.

 

Thank you all for your time

It’s not lost. As explained very clearly it is something that you customize yourself. Lots of information about how to do this in the good old fashioned user guide. 

Edited Sunday at 04:14 PM by Bass Guitar

[onlyinitforthemoney]

56 minutes ago, Amberwolf said:

Easy to fix in the Keybindings in preferences.  

I Will check it out

[User 905133]

14 hours ago, bmarlowe said:

Single key shortcuts can be scary though, you have to be careful. I remember panicking over things like a disappearing control bar (I must have inadvertently pressed "c"). 

Since I almost always use a floating Control Bar. I changed C to Show the Console, not the Control Bar.**  

5 hours ago, onlyinitforthemoney said:

My favorite shortcut was Q for Mute

it was great at the far left of the keyboard wit S, E, D for select erase and draw in piano roll

but they changed it somewhere between Sonar6 and X1

Roland did this i guess

Until a programmer gets bored and change it again

To me customizability has long been the software's best general feature.  In this case even if at some point "a programmer" changes some default you like, you might be able to change them back!!!

**PS: I like the way the Menu Bar items reflect my choices. For example:

Edited Sunday at 07:13 PM by User 905133
added a PS