Addictive Keys issue

I've sent a mail to XLNAudio support by the way.
 
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Oh and also, I tried saving a preset and couldn't name it because Sonar kept intercepting all keys. I tried clicking the give-all-keystrokes-to-plugin but it didn't make a difference. The  "save" thing actually opens another dialog so maybe that's why (the dialog windows didn't have such a button). I ended up using a notepad file to type the name, copy it, and then use the right mouse button to paste it into AK.

Thanks! I'll check that out. I hope setting the pedal to zero doesn't instantly start the noise.

And yeah the grand is a little heavy on the high ringing. Heavy EQ helps some, so does transposing the sample down but both of those really alter the character too.

Okay that last one took a little head-scratching. I was able to reproduce the same thing with Addictive's preview clips in SONAR, but not if I sent them on a round-trip out a physical MIDI port and back which meant it was a MIDI buffering issue of some sort. After staring at the Event List for a while, I noticed there are a bunch of notes with duration = 0. I deleted them all, and the clip plays normally.
 
MIDI players that don't buffer softsynth output in advance the way SONAR does don't have a problem with those events. Those zero-duraiton note events really shouldn't be there, so I'm not going to hold it against SONAR for behaving strangely as a result, but I'll be reporting it to the Bakers.
 
As for the issue reported by the OP, I can't reproduce a problem with or without Zero Controllers enabled and with or without stopping them by the pedal in the AK GUI. Even if there's no pedal up, all sounds decay to inaudibility in a usual amount of time, and eventually go completely silent according to Bitmeter.
 
EDIT: Incidentally, I noticed the preview clips have partial pedal values in them. I don't know if that's just a function of the controller that was used to record them, or whether AK can actually respond to "half-pedaling"; I'll have to read up. I did notice that it doesn't respond to re-pedaling on the release with a normal on/off pedal, though. TruePianos does.
 
 

To be clear, my notes ring out as well if I let them. One part of my issue is that AK still assumes I pressed the pedal and then if I start from the beginning of the clip it sustains all notes.
The noise parts doesn't really have anything to do with the sound of actual notes sustaining but a different kind of noise if I "cancel" the sustain panel via the interface. It's soft and doesn't appear on my meter in Sonar (haven't tried bitmeter) but is definitely audible by switching mute on and off.