Feature request: Previewed notes in the PRV to honor automation?

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2013/03/18 13:49:24 (permalink)

Feature request: Previewed notes in the PRV to honor automation?

Not sure if I've described that very well. 

When you click on a note in the PRV, the note is played. However, the sound that is played doesn't seem to pay any attention to what's going on in the automation lanes for that track. I can understand why this isn't a problem in 95% of cases, but consider this: you are using a synth's arpeggiator. At times during the song, you want to turn the arpeggitor off and pencil in some notes manually. So you create an automation lane to turn the arpeggiator off at those times. However, when I then try and enter the notes I want in the PRV at those points, Sonar does not recognize the fact that I've turned off the arpeggiator at that location, and so it doesn't turn off the arpeggiator when it plays those notes as I add them or click on them. 

This is annoying because when you're penciling notes into the PRV, it really helps to be able to hear what notes you're adding. 

Don't know if this is important enough to sufficient people to warrant a feature request, but I figured I'd throw it out there anyway 


EDIT: Aaaand as soon as I'd posted that, I discovered the workaround: if you start playback from the exact point at which the arpeggiator is turned off, the notes sounding in the PRV will be played without the arpeggiator. Result! It seems that if you start playback at a point where the arpeggiator is turned on, even if you stop playback after the arpeggiator is turned off, the PRV will act as if the arpeggiator is still turned on. I guess you could call this a quirk rather than a bug. 

James
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