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ba_midi


I haven't read this entire thread - but here's one real bad bug for me - I'm wondering if anyone else has seen/mentioned/reported it:

If I am in the PRV and select some notes and want to quantize them, "Q" does NOTHING. 

I've tried it in a few proejcts.  Nada.  Zilch.

Also when bringing up the PRV (btw, this is in the multi-dock), I have the controller pane visible and the dock ALWAYS comes up with the controller pane taking up most of the screen real estate and the notes are way up top almost hidden.

If this has been brought up already, I humbly apologize.   But even if so, can someone else confirm what I'm seeing?

Thanks.

gmp


Automation - lost features and bugs

In all versions of Sonar except X1, you can select a group of tracks and arm them for automation by choosing automation write enable.  All parameters are armed for automation, not just one parameter. Right before starting to automate it's important to go to the start of the song and hit snapshot. This creates a starting place for all moves and changes of all parameters.

In 8.5 all tracks armed for automation add a starting point node at the beginning of the song. This is important, because if it's not done then if you accidently hit a fader on your control surface and have not starting point snapshot, then that track will start with the wrong automation settings. There are a few other ways to unintentionally change the start time automation settings, so it's dangerous to not use a start time snapshot.

In X1 it appears that you can only automate one parameter at a time by right clicking that parameter and choosing automaton snapshot. The help file mentions multiple automation snapshots, but doesn't explain how to do them. I tried selecting several tracks and choosing automation snapshot, but it didn't work. This is what the help file says about multiple automation snapshots.

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Successive snapshots do not update envelope node values
When taking multiple automation snapshots at the same Now time, new envelope nodes are created instead of updating any existing envelope nodes. To address this issue, undo the previous automation snapshot before performing a new snapshot.
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This seems to be a big oversight. What if you are trying to update multiple automation snapshots and you can't undo, either because you did the original snapshot a long time ago and don't want to undo a lot of important stuff or that you closed Sonar and all the undo history is lost.
When I first installed X1 and opened an 8.5 file that had automation already recorded. I played the song and it sounded terrible, because EQ settings in Prochannel were incorrectly set to rolloff all automated tracks at 300HZ. So all the tracks sounded really thin and strange. This is a bug in backward compatibility. My automation settings from 8.5 shouldn't affect Prochannel.
The reason I prefer to select all the tracks for automation and then choose automation write enable, instead of right clicking  "volume" and choosing automation write enable, is because I would have to do that for each track one at a time instead of having a group of tracks all set for automation write enable for all parameters. After choosing snapshot, so I don't have to view about 30 envelope lines in the clip pane,  I choose hide all enveleopes and then choose show volume envelope, because usually that's all I automate is volume. Yet if I do choose to automate something else that envelope shows up on the screen along with the volume envelope.
In addition to all these automation problems X1 is crashing while changing things in Prochannel or working with the automation. Hopefully this severe instability is temporary and will be fixed in the next patch. I must say my initial impression of X1 isn't very good.
If anyone has workarounds for these issues or can enlighten me in case I'm missing something, please chime in.

FastBikerBoy


Problem Summary:
Snap to settings in preferences not remembered

Detailed Description:
1. Open the preferences and go to snap & Nudge settings
2. Change the magnetic strength and snap to/by settings
3. Click Apply and close the window.

Expected Result:
I would expect that setting selected to become my default for every project from there on.

Actual Result:
It always defaults back to "Low" and "Snap by"

CWBRN-3963

1. In Sonar X1's Console View, faders display black boxes in the lower left hand corner of each fader's range, only in the Master section.
   
   
2. In all sections of the Console View, fader and meter values (the numbers displayed beneath each fader and meter) are positioned too high (or the faders are too low).  For example, the focus (white corners that appear over the selected fader) and fader's slider knob abut or overlap the top pixels of those values.
   
   

• OS:  Windows XP SP3
• Video Card:  Matrox Millennium P650
• Video Resolution (dual monitors):  1280 x 1024 @ 60 Hz
• Color palette:  32-bit color