Bounce to clip - greyed out

My guess is that one (or more) clips is locked.

I say this because I have this happen to me frequently and then I ahve to remind myself about a locked clip.

Maybe that's your situation?

best,
mike

You have to have a MIDI track with recorded data selected.

Bump

The only way I can make it do what you are describing is if the now cursor happens to be sitting at a place on the track where there is no clip and a section of the track selected (eg at measure 1 if there is no audio starting there) then even if you select the track there are no clips selected when you select the track and the bounce to clips is greyed out. If you happen to have the track minimized you may not notice that. Make sure all the clips/layers you want to bounce are black.

Don't know if that is whats happening to you but is the only way I can make it happen.

Lorne

This is definitely a recurring issue for me - you are not imagining this.  I have reported this on the forum as well within the last 6 months.  I've done thousands of these bouncedowns as well in every version of Sonar to date (translation:  I'm very familiar with bouncing clips and tracks), and every once in awhile the bounce to clips and bounce to track gets grayed out.  Project plays fine but if you select all on the project or any subset of clips/tracks, you can't do anything with it.


I've gotten around it in the past by opening up a new project, recording a quick clip, bouncing that one, re-opening the track with the problem and the options come back without any changes to the project.


Unfortunately, I got it again today while I was under the gun for a project and couldn't bounce anything.  I've restarted cakewalk, rebooted, and as of now, nothing is getting around this.  Even projects that I've got bouncedowns from earlier today won't let me do it now.

This IS a bug, just very infrequent. 

Update.  I tried to export to get something out the door, and found I the export to audio option was grayed out as well.  Reboots and restarts weren't helping.  In desperation, I started Sonar holding down the shift key, which resets some of the settings, and it seems to have kick-started it back into working again.  I'd like this to go away.  I found my old tech report (not a forum post as I said before). 

johnsjam


This is actually for a guitar solo, so it's an audio track. I have checked everything I can think of, and this is a function I use all the time when comping a solo. I am stuck!

The either you don't have an audio clip selected (unlikely) or Sonar doesn't think you have one selected. Is the track frozen or archived, perhaps?

chaunceyc


Thanks for the heads up, Panup.

Confirmed that the metronome is the culprit (or at least that turning off the record metronome solves this).  When bouncing down a preview of a project, I utilize the transport/spacebar to locate my cursor to a spot just before the section I want to bounce. 

Under certain conditions, this action indeed greys out all of the bounce/export options even when legitimate bounce-able/ exportable sections are selected. 

This worked for me as well. As soon as I changed the count in measures from '1' to '0' I noticed the screen flickered and then the bounce to clip option was available. Phew!