Sonar has also improved greatly on AudioSnap and we saw this in operation with the transients moving into place. Every time I look at this I keep thinking I wish there was something perhaps called "Quick Snap" whereby you have a situation of say two tracks and you want these tight together. You would then tell Sonar to "Quick Snap" Track 2 to the timing and transients that it finds in Track 1. I don't want it to show me the transients but just get on and do the job. If  I did not like it then I could simply undo and use AudioSnap if necessary. There you go there is a new idea - I wonder what Roland think of that?

We saw the lovely V Vocal working and how easy it is to create the hard tune sounds that you here all the time nowadays. If I remember correctly the settings had :- NOTE = 100,  VIBRATO = 0,  and   SENSE = 100. I will have to try this and check it out.

The demonstration took place with a Cakewalk A-300Pro Compact 32-key MIDI keyboard controller. For about £170 these are great. I loved the way that it had an "ACT" key and all the controls of Sonar could quickly be mapped  to the keys, the faders, knobs and pads. We watched all happen painlessly in seconds. Something I learnt here was that whichever screen was on top (once ACT had mapped the controls) you could use your keyboard controls to manipulate this item. For example if you had Session Drummer 3 and V vocal open , you could switch between the two and the controls would work with whichever screen was on top.

I am sure I have forgotten something but I don't think I did too badly. I just wish to leave you with a big "Thank You" to the Guys from Roland that arranged and presented this and to Nevada Music for hosting this event. I only wish there was one of these every week.