Sonar 8.0, X1, X2, X3 Copy and Paste bug in The Staff Window. The Simple Instrument Track
The only reason I love using Sonar is that it is not only intuitive but convenient, especially when handling notes in the staff window. So, copy and paste is the most used work as of me. However,
paste does not work without several tries in the staff window, or nothing happens. Of course, I tried every option including copy special, paste special.
In this video example, I made just a single track and it was in focus as well while editing notes.
Actually, Sonar 7 and Sonar 8.5 do not have such issues. Cakewalk has released patch 'e' for Sonar X3 so far, but it didn't fix the bug.
-----------------To Work Around This Problem---------------------
There are two solutions.
1. 'Spilt instrument track'
2. Check 'MIDI Source', 'Synth Track Folder, and 'First Synth Audio Output' in the 'Insert Soft Synth Options dialogbox'. You can open this dialogbox by pressing 'B' and clicking 'the insert synth options icon'.
Conclusion:
Originally, the synth track consists of two parts, an audio track and a midi track for the VSTi. And on the midi track, we draw notes. By the way, the simple instrument track has only one track, which means it contains both parts implicitly. So, the simple instrument track does not seem to recognize the midi track properly that does not exist definitely, it ends up with not knowing where to paste. Since the simple instrument track is combining two tracks, it should have processed the paste work accordingly.
The funny thing is that I can do every other job in the track, like drawing, cutting, and so on. Only paste does not work correctly. It is not a matter of checking if the current track is in focus. This is totally the track's bug. I also found this problem has appeared since Sonar 8.
post edited by bc399 - 2015/03/09 09:41:01