Two questions

1. How do I stop a song. When i have a song and all the tracks end the time line keeps on going forever. Is there a setting or something to click to stop that?
 
 
2. When i am working in a song it seems the song will continue to play and the time line will run off the screen and leave me behind, the screen does not move, but the line does.

1. There's a setting in the Options menu in the TV. Stop at project end. If it's not working check the event view to see if you have an event that you can't see.

2. Press the scroll lock key, it acts like a UI pause button

I do get frustrated with the docking thing, you drag a plugin, or screen around and it constantly wants to doc itself. Arrrgggg!

Hold the ctrl key down, it won't dock then. BTW it's not only MIDI events that will keep a song going past its end point. Envelope nodes will as well.

All the mentioned ideas are valid things to check. However, there is an on-going bug in Sonar projects, has been around for many versions (maybe the entire Sonar series) and continues into X1, that causes some projects to develop a symptom where they do not stop at the end. Past the last event, past the last envelope, they just keep playing, albeit silently, on and on. No rhyme or reason why some projects get that way--well, duh, if there was a r-or-r, then it would get fixed--they just sometimes do. (Maybe one in five or so of my projects end up that way--endless.)

One way to fix that I've found is to copy and paste all tracks to a new project. On the WAH! (what-a-hassle!) scale, that rates about an 85 for me, so I just live with the occasional endless project. Saving as a new project would be too easy, doesn't work anyway--now you have two projects that don't stop.

In the hah-hah category, sometimes I'll be working on a project late and getting dozy, so when the song fades out, I write some last notes, snap off the monitor and groggily head home--and so to bed. Next day I come in, monitor on, and the song is still playing (silence), somewhere in the 2000th measure or wherever ten hours is at that tempo. I must, at least, admire Sonar's fortitude.

I would like to see that bug fixed someday, just on principle.

FBB, the suggestion for options/stop at end of program worked a treat, and i was able to uncheck rewind to start on stop cool

Melodyne runs nicely here on X1, both as a plug in and stane alone work great. I did have a crash when trying to be cute with a close.

I also tracked the very save wave tracks in Reaper and used the exact same plugins, and got exactly the same results. It did not hint at crashing, even though the folks at Reaper forum say it can be buggy with melodyne as a plug in.

I have to say both platforms perform very well, and both are great to work with. Reaper is a bit less cluttered to start, and allows some nifty routings. But Cake is very polished to me. I had to go back into Reaper and take a second run at the reverb settings, top get what i had in Cake.

I am hoping that Cake won't crash too much on me, since i am a bit more familiar with it I will most likely use it. If it does, then the Reap will step in. I am going to give X1 and very good run to see if and what is wrong. I Really think it makes a good all around package.

I also am getting more comfortable with Melodyne, i am seeing where i can fix a lot of little things in my vocals that need polish.