Peruse this list and tell me if there are any errors. I'm going to submit them today to Brandon.
Thanks 1. Keyboard support for some of the newer plug-ins The new linear plug-ins are a bit of a nightmare for screen reader users. For example, in the Linear EQ, there is a graph which you need to click on in order to add a label for a given frequency band. As usual, there isn't a tab order to speak of in that plug-in. Perhaps a group of radio buttons would be better meaning that, you could have 20 radio buttons for band selection in the plug-in. You would choose which radio button you wanted to access for a particular band then, tab over to the gain, frequency q etc.for the band that has focus. When a particular radio button is selected, only the data for that band would be displayed on screen. Sighted people would probably like this feature too as currently, when you add labels for each band in order to work on a given part of the frequency spectrum the screen canbecome quite busy. A great new feature that Sonar is touting is the ability to solo each individual band. Cannot do that from the keyboard.
2. Audio Scrubbing is not usable with a control surface, as the scrub cursordoesn't track properly in Sonar. Kind of usable with the mouse although, still not great. What's the point in purchasing an FW1884 if I can't use one of the main features of it in Sonar, namely, scrubbing. Also, no keyboard support for it yet. At least let me assign
it to either the mouse wheel or a mod wheel on a control surface. There are no keybindings for it.
3. No Accessibility In The Clips Pane.Currently a user has to drag various panes apart in order to access the clips pane. Perhaps a clip view, similar in functionality to the event view would be great. Or at least a keystroke to find the nearest zero crossing dependent upon the selection that I made with the from and through time with the f9 and f10 keys.
4. Automations shapes in the bus view Shapes that are recorded in the buss view, aren't accessible for us at all. They do not appear anywhere that we can get to. It would be great if shapes that are recorded in the buss view were also accessible in the event view. At least that way, we could then go into theevent view and delete them. Here is the nightmare scenario, you just did a killer fade out on the master bus so you saved it. You listen back a couple days later and it just wasn't right. Now what, you can't delete that automation.
5. Real world values in the inspector directly from the plug in. The only one that does this successfully is the sonitus EQ. Otherwise, all we get are percentage values. When using a compressor, what ratio does 43 percent equate to exactly. Hard to tell. 6. Editing envelopes as Midi valuesThis was implemented in Cakewalk 9.03 but this feature is no longer available. If the
envelope is being described by a series of MIDI controller values (which is what is really happening anyway if you use a control surface to do your automation), you'll be able to modify the individual events within the Event View. Alternatively, it would be nice to set nodes using a surface that describe minima and maxima then get Sonar to join them up using user-selectable lines/curves - adjusting the starting or ending node would then cause the line/curve to be redrawn. 7. Need to be able to see and edit MIDI note off messages in the Event View. 8. Unable to re-order tracks using keystrokes.9. Unable to change ordering of plug-ins within a strip's FX Bin using the keyboard
10 No Keyboard Support For Soloing Busses.11. No keyboard keystroke to bring up the context menu that allows the insertion of new sends, etc.
12. Have to use a mouse to gain focus in the Console View.13. Unable to read effects names from the FX Bin if using Window Eyes - works with Jaws.
14. Have to use a mouse to move to the Track Inspector when using Window Eyes -OK with Jaws.
15. Unable to determine which track/bus I'm on when using Window Eyes and keyboard commands. This works better in Jaws, but is not 100% reliable.
16. Can't navigate the Event View using Window Eyes. 17. Have to use a mouse to get into the Plug In Manager. 18. Can't access the Piano Roll View. ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq]** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq
