Event List showing wrong position on playback?

hadn't noticed this before but when playing back a project the event list is not in sync with the project, it's one position ahead of where the project is....  
anybody else see this... here's a vid of the problem  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giWgYVgo_Mo

hrm weird.  The manual says "[style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70);"]During playback, the event list scrolls to display the events at the current time. The current event is centered in the Event List during playback, and the highlight is on the correct event when playback stops. "  http://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation/default.aspx?Doc=SONAR%20X2&Lang=EN&Req=EditingMIDI.44.html#1085014[style="color: rgb(70, 70, 70);"]  when i hit stop the highlight was on the next event.  i wasn't trying to verify where i was in the piece but looking into ways feed event list info and notes into external apps for processing and triggering real-time response algorithms.

right, which is suspect because when the event list hits the end then "x events shown" is highlighted instead of the next note to be played.  that's a little odd and just looked funky to me....

swamptooth


right, which is suspect because when the event list hits the end then "x events shown" is highlighted instead of the next note to be played.  that's a little odd and just looked funky to me....

I would not look for a relationship between the event list cursor and the accuracy of your sound card.  The accuracy will be determined not only by the limtations of the card, but your buffer and latency settings.  The correct place to monitor this is the playback vertical line moving through the staff bar, the audio wave window and other views.  The accuracy will also effect when a volume node on an envelope in your audio wave view will be recognized.  Those are the places to be concerned with timing inaccuracies.   The event list is a great view to insert controller changes, patch changes, tuning changes, attack and release commands, expression and pan commands, etc.  That's really what it is designed to be, a detailed event editor, not a monitoring view.
 
JG
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swamptooth


i still find it odd that you can edit program and controller changes based on event view if it doesn't give you an accurate representation of the playback position.  that being said, jsg, do you ever attent the sf electornic music meetup group?? it would be good to meet another sonar user! :D

It is accurate, it lands on the beat that comes next.  If you want greater accuracy than that, I've said it once before, pay attention to the main time display and/or the vertical time line that scrolls in various views. 
I have been to that group a few times, but not in the recent past.  I also gave music theory and electronic music instruction to two members of that group.
 
JG
www.jerrygerber.com

The event list only shows discrete events and only for note ON, not note OFF. There is nothing in the event list that can represent being in the middle of a note or group of notes, like the way notes are displayed on a timeline. If the timeline now time and its cursor is exactly at the starting time of a note or chord, the event cursor should be at that note or the first listed note of the chord. If it is between note ONs, instead of pointing at one of the note ON events that already passed, it points to the next event. Thinking about the general case of chords or non-parallel voicing, is there really anything else to reasonably point to? If note OFFs were displayed also, I would still expect the cursor to point to the next event, not a prior event.