Beepster

It's a cool trick that was buried in the talented Mr Garrigus' X1 Power. I made sure to write it down in the little notebook that lives beside my DAW. I wonder when X2 Power is coming out.

Glad to be of service! 


That function also works on controls in the Track view and in the Inspector.


Working hard on SONAR X2 Power! but still a few months away. Why? Because the book will be based on the final shipping version of X2 and not the beta version. I want it to be as accurate as possible.


Thanks!
Scott

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I have 3 of Scott's books, including X1, but I guess I missed that tip. Thanks!

This sounds similar to control dragging with the mute tool in lanes, no? You mute all other tracks exceppt the one you are control dragging over.
 
Never mind. I think I'm out of my depth.

Thanks, Bill. Now I have a term I can research. However that was certainly not intended. It happened when I a) muted a small rhythm guitar clip which then muted a BFD MIDI clip (the weird selection issue) then b) when I selected and "isolated" the BFD clip to unmute it c) created hollow waves for that time period on two other rhythm guitar clips.

It really seems like when I click on or highlight or select anything it is applying the select to all of the tracks above it in my track list no matter what I do.. but randomly (it doesn't seem to happen all the time). However that is a very truncated assessment of what I am experiencing. It's a lot weirder than that but it's hard to define and describe. I'm shut down for the night but any and all ideas will help isolate what's going on. Doesn't seem to matter what tool I'm using and as I said sometimes it does it... sometimes it doesn't. I'll take a fresh look tomorrow. It's a shame because this tune is sounding pretty cool. I'd like to get it done and posted. Cheers and thanks for the insight.

@gswitz... lol. You and me both. :-/

Beepster


@Noisy Neighbor. Thanks for posting. I am indeed working with lanes. Okay... maybe I'm not going crazy. Oof. I was hoping to have all my slip edits and fades done by now. If this a bug it's a pretty annoying one. If it's some weird default setting it's very strange and confusing. Cheers.

Sorry for late reply, I needed some sleep....

...some additional info: I recognized this issue in a largely project, originally created in X1. I'm currently working on a new project created in X2 which has only a few tracks yet. Here it works as expected. (so far) 
 
have a creative Sunday!
    

regards,
Daniel

@Noisy... This project was started in X2 so unfortunately I can't blame it on that. Cheers.

Sorry, the suggestion was appreciated. Didn't mean to sound dismissive. Just letting the thread know it was a an X2 adventure from start to... well it's current state. 

Anyway, I just locked all the other tracks and I really think this is going to work. Wasn't too much hassle. I just clicked the folder group select, opened the inspector, pressed Clip then hit the "Lock" menu and selected Pos/Data. Even if I didn't have this problem it seems like a good habit to get into anyway to avoid screwing things up (especially when I've had a few barley pops). We'll see how it goes. Cheers, all.

Locking the tracks/clips is working very well so far. Cool feature.