Feature request related to midi recording

[Sammy D]

Greetings to all.... I've been a long time Sonar user off and on for a number of years. I've consistently made a request for midi merge or overdub recording to a single clip. It's always fallen on death ears and I'm frankly not that optimistic as I make the request now. I've never understood why this feature has always been treated as frivolous. Dealing with midi clips in Sonar has always been messy. Having to bounce to clips to have a single unified performance has always baffled me. While other DAW's offered the option to do separate midi clips, they also offered overdubbing to the same clip as well.  I hope someone on the team will want to bring such a basic feature to reality in a world were stem separation is becoming a new standard in programs and Sonar still behind on basic midi. Let's go team Cakewalk/ Bandlab!

[Base 57]

The way Sound on Sound recorded clips are displayed in Track View is messed up. If you open the take lanes, all of the data in unmuted lanes is displayed in the parent track. But if you close the take lanes, the most recently selected clip is displayed on top of other clips. This is a problem that should be addressed. The parent track should at least show all unmuted data in all lanes always. This would appear to be a single clip.  

So, I am sympathetic to your problem. But...

41 minutes ago, Sammy D said:

Having to bounce to clips to have a single unified performance has always baffled me

Bouncing clips is merging them. Until the bakers make changes that address this problem, learning how to bounce clips is the simplest solution. I would not hold my breath waiting for overdubbing to a single clip.

[sjoens]

I suppose they could make them "appear" to be one clip when hidden, but that might be equally confusing for some users.  IOW, there would be no visual clue there's more than one take on that track.  I'd view having to spend a lot of time expanding TLs just to see if there's more than one take as a waist of time.

OTOH, when they're expanded, the main track does display them all at once.

What's odd to me is Paste Special > Paste into Existing Clips only works visually in PRV.  Track View still creates a new clip requiring a bounce to finalize the paste . . .  but that could be construed as another topic entirely. 

 

Edited 2 hours ago by sjoens