Step Sequencer Question

Is there a way to have a 32 beat 8 steps per beat sequence visible on the screen it's entirety without having to scroll.  I have a two screen setup and if I could achieve this I would be completely happy.  Having to scroll to edit the sequence not viewable on the screen makes the step sequencer almost unuseable to me for the way that I like to work when building drum patterns.  I prefer to make 8 measure patterns which would be 32 beats long but would also like to be able to throw in a 32nd note from time to time hence the 8 steps per beat designation.  Thanks.

WOW!  Thanks Scott.  Im going to buy your book.  Will it be revised to cover anything new that X1C integrates? 

Well Scott, I have been able to get the step sequencer to float and it is even across multi screens but there seems to be a limit to resizing it because I cannot get it any larger than 59 steps at 32 beats per sequence and 8 steps per beat before it starts scrolling.  There is nearly and entire monitor worth of additional realestate to use if it would allow me to continue resizing.  I wonder if this can be fixed?  Hmmm? 

Scott:

My StepSeq is definitely floating, but if, for example, I set it to 8 beats of 8 steps each, it won't display all eight bars at once on my 2-monitor setup.

If I cut it down to 4 bars, or 8 bars with 4 steps, I see the whole thing, But I like the rhythmic power of 8 x 8 and wish I could use it. The snapping back and forth StepSeq does makes it unusable in that config.

Widetrack


Scott:

My StepSeq is definitely floating, but if, for example, I set it to 8 beats of 8 steps each, it won't display all eight bars at once on my 2-monitor setup.

If I cut it down to 4 bars, or 8 bars with 4 steps, I see the whole thing, But I like the rhythmic power of 8 x 8 and wish I could use it. The snapping back and forth StepSeq does makes it unusable in that config.

Yes.  To me the step sequencer is totally unusable when it scrolls.  I really need to be able to sequence 32nd notes in the step sequencer for snare and closed hi hat cymbals.  I love to create 8 bar drum patterns but the Sonar step sequencer is not going to allow such a layout without implementing scrolling.  The step sequencer has SOOOOOOO much potential to create killer drum patterns.  I hope that Cakewalk is listening.  Peace.

Were you able to get it stretched the full width of the 2 screens?  If not our difference may be due to screen resolution or screen size. I'm using 1680 X 1050 on 2 x 24in. monitors.  In multidock I can get 109 steps(measure 14 beat 5) using 14 beats, 8 steps, and fit quarters set to 4

Lorney:

Not sure of my screens' rsolutions. I know one's 1650 and the other is somewhat smaller. But I can open the stepseq so parts of it are on both screens, just not all the way across. Although I cn drag it back and forth across the screens, it still won't open to 8 x 8.

Got to admit, I never tried a 14-measure, 5-beat pattern.

Lorneyb2:

This is complicated.
 
My X1 does allow me to stretch Stepseq across both screens, but I can't stretch it to display a full 8x8 image.
 
If I disable floating, I can stretch it to 8 x 8. But of course this requires it to stretch across both monitors, and unfortunately, my monitors are of different models and resolutions, so where the stepseq crosses from one to the next, the image changes size enough to make watching it just about as gnarly as having it jump back and forth when it just displays 7 bars.
 
I haven't tried multidock, since it seems that with my mismatched monitors, it won't help. I'll give it a try anyhow.

Thank you for the suggestion.

Yes, it is weird they didn't fix this in the update. I actually can't even fit 8x4 beats in my screen. The last two beats cause the screen to scroll, causing spatial disorientation, and making it so you can't see or connect with what you're working on and ultimately rendering the Step Sequencer useless. I can compose beats in 4x4. Unfortunately I can't adjust my screen resolution. 

I selected 'disable float' or 'enable float' whichever was not already selected, and the Step Sequencer is now pinned beneath the Sonar main upper panel and cannot be dragged higher. It still cannot be lengthened or adjusted in size. There are also no more options to 'enable float' that pop-up menu has vanished. 

For those of you with low-res laptops, try connecting a 1080p monitor to its monitor output. X1 was designed with a minimum 1280x800 resolution (and even that's pushing it, IMHO). Its all about the screen resolution, not the screen size, so the higher the res the more you will see, and the lower the res the less you will see. SP

What synth is it assigned to. Hardware? Software? It hasn't become unassigned somehow?

You haven't inadvertently knocked the velocity down on all the kicks?

The erasing thing is by design. When you duplicate a clip it is linked to the previous one by default. To unlink them click on the clip(s) and select unlink from the right click context menu.

I have a keybinding for it as I use it constantly. I create a clip then create copies from that for various song sections unlinking and editing them as I go.