Do you have problems with the Staff-View Chord Chart Function?

Today I was trying to enter Guitar-Chord-Charts into a song in Sonar X2a-PE. What happens is that in the Chord-Grid-Feature and the Chord-Properties-Dialog-Box there is all kinds unusual behavior.

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FIRST, the Chord-Grid has the Name of the Chord overlaid on the Grid itself usually in a huge font at a strange angle. Sometimes when you press the 'Play'-Option the broken obscuring overlay disappears.

SECOND, the Chords with 'B' as a root seem to get tangled up with the Chords which have 'Bb' as a root. You try to enter a B-maj7 and wind up with a Bb-maj7. This does not seem to happen in other roots.

THIRD, there seems to be no way to save new Fretboard-Chord-Fingerings although the Manual explains the process to some extent. It is obviously supposed to be functional. When I press 'Save', there is no update of the new Fretboard-Chord-Fingering.[Today this seems to be working]

FOURTH,sometimes the Chord-Charts will Paste at the 1/8 Note time interval and sometimes Chord-Charts will not paste at the 1/8 Note, but only at the 1/4 Note interval. This seems to have nothing at all to do with the Snap-Settings. I have found a workaround for this.

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These are the Bugs I experience; I wonder if others in SonarLand also see this same malfunction. I sadly recognize that probably almost no one uses this feature. What is missing, obviously, is that there is no way to Cut and Paste large sections of Chord-Charts to different sections of different Tracks or to have a palate of recently entered Chords handy.

Folks, let me know if you have any ideas about this and if you have the same experience, that way I will know if it is just my computer and Sonar having a spat or this is a broken feature.

By the way, mostly SonarX2a-PE works well on my platform.

If it matters, my platform:

Toshiba-X775-Quosmio Laptop

SonarX2a-PE

Roland-OctaCapture

Windows 7 HP (64-bit).

post edited by cswami - 2013/04/18 06:43:05

Thank you Jimbo88, I did not know that it was possible to lasso just the Chord Symbol Charts then do Copy/Paste maneuvers. This speeds things up hugely.

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What I was hoping someone would do for me is just to try using the Chord-Properties-Dialog-Box.

To do this go to Staff-View (Naturally this has to be a MIDI-Track) and click the 'Chords' Button. Then, with the Smart-Tool, just click anywhere above the Staff, in the Highlighted Area (Non-Grey). A tiny 'C' will be placed there. This is NOT a Chord-Symbol, but just a Chord-Name. You must next double-click that 'C' and the Chord-Properties-Dialog-Box will appear. If you have already been typing in Chord-Symbols, Sonar will instead enter the previously pasted, altered or double-clicked Chord-Symbol, you will NOT see the 'C'. If this happens, then just double-click the newly appeared Chord-Symbol.

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I would just like to know if the distorted font in the Chord-Properties-Dialog-Box is just my computer messing with Sonar or it is what others see too.

Thanks PaulP, I have continued using the Staff-View Chord-Symbols. They are glitchy but nonetheless worth it.

Thank you for your time.