Making notes "move to" the snap setting not working...

I suspect this is something I'm doing wrong. I always have kept my magnetism on extreme and my grid on snap to as I almost always want notes to snap to 32nd or 16 th note boundaries. Then, if I want to just nudge something I set my main snap to samples and move from there. I don't ever mess with the "nudge menu" as I don't know exactly what it's for...and never use it. But since the last couple if iterations of X3 I quite frequently get situations in the PRV where notes...or the beginnings of notes simply will not snap to the settings I've selected. It's very frustrating. If there is something I'm doing wrong please hip me, will ya?


Basically I just want two settings...one where I can select the note value and everything will hard snap "to" that or one where I can set it to snap to samples and then freely move something where I need it.

My problem is more like this: I'll have snap set to 32 notes and magnetism set to extreme. In the PRV I'll see I was a tad off on a couple notes, say at the beginning of a measure...they'll be just a hair off. Even though I have snap set to "move to" I cannot grab and move those notes and snap them to the exact start time. PInstead they act like the snap is set to a sort of weird "move by" setting and won't let me drag them where I want them. And even if I then change to "move to" and select 1 sample...it still won't let me move them correctly. Or even if I use N to disable snap altogether. It's a definite bug and it happens all the time.

I don't...but I'll try that as well. Thanks!

PRV has it own snap to/snap by settings. I'm sure you already know that but you might check the prv setting again to make sure it's snap to.

I had a similar problem using staff view. The notes would not snap to any setting and it was a pain to find the right position because the snap was just broken. The only way I was able to fix it was to uninstall Sonar and reinstall it.
 
I hope you figure it out without going through that hassle. Sadly, it was less hassle to just do that in the end. I haven't had the problem since but who knows?

As to the original problem, try this: Go Edit > Preferences > Customization > Snap to Grid, uncheck everything under Landmarks, and let me know what happens. Sounds like you might be snapping to landmarks you don't intend to snap to.

yorolpal
Go figure. Maybe X3 just needed a little nappy nite nite time.

Or maybe a parameter that doesn't persist was set incorrectly?

Could be Craig...but I doubt it. I've been with Cake since it's inception and seen way more than my share of just gremlins...as I'm sure you have as well, since we are contemporaries as it were. And so it goes. But whether it was my dimbulbed mistake, or simply an unnoticed omission or commission, it's just part of the wonderfulness of technology as it moves along the continuum. Don't know about you, but I wake up every morning to a brand new world.

yorolpal
Could be Craig...but I doubt it. I've been with Cake since it's inception and seen way more than my share of just gremlins...as I'm sure you have as well, since we are contemporaries as it were. 

Generally, I don't have many weirdnesses with any of the music software I use that I can't trace back to either pilot error or more commonly, not knowing about a function and therefore having something happen I didn't understand. Snapping to landmarks was one of those. Maybe microprocessors just like me or something.