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Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
Another unintended 'feature'? -- click on a synth in the synth rack for any purpose and the track view 'focus' track changes. Which of course ruins any selections.
Used to be many claimed the strange focus behavior on Sonar was by design. Anyone want to claim this one as 'by design'?
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/14 21:43:10
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OK what focus was in effect prier to the clicking on the synth in the synth rack?
What was your expected behavior? When I click on the synth's name field in the synth rack it focuses on the MIDI track for that synth. Is that not what you are expecting?
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/14 21:59:57
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prior to clicking on the synth, let's say to uncheck the "enable midi out" with a right click, the focus was on what I was working on -- OTHER TRACKS, a group of tracks, a selected time range, anything proper for focus. After clicking, the focus was on the FIRST midi track for that synth, although it may have 16 associated midi tracks, or even more if more than one midi goes to the same synth channel. (edit) -- maybe not always first midi track -- one my my 5 Kontakt instances the focus goes to the 12th of 16 tracks .. can't figure out why. The other 4 Kontakt instances, focus goes to the 1st of 16 tracks. I can't swear this is new to Kingston ... like any disconcerting thing, you don't notice it until it happens. But I think it is. One consequence of this is not only does the focus change, the entire track view changes when you have a large project, more tracks than fit the screen, and the focus is suddenly at the top when you were working at the bottom, or the focus is suddenly at the bottom when you were working at the top.
post edited by williamcopper - 2015/12/14 22:21:49
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John
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/14 22:11:29
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I can't see a problem in this case. One would think and expect to have the MIDI tracks associated with the synth in focus when accessing the synth via the name field. Why would want the focus to be elsewhere?
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/14 22:36:44
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well that solves it John. Thanks.
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/16 09:49:59
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I suppose sarcasm doesn't come through that well. This is a bug, a problem, it's new, and it is another thing that distracts from efficient workflow. Why in the world would anyone want a track focus to ONE of many synth tracks, done automatically, can't be disabled, can't be directed toward which track is good.
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/16 10:30:42
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☄ Helpfulby charlyg 2015/12/16 11:16:01
williamcopper
This is a bug,
Riiiiiggghhhht. It's intended behavior (and for most probably a desireable behavior). I am pretty sure I have it documented in tuts about the synth rack. It is not a bug. Submit a feature request that allows the user to disable this feature... and move on.
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/16 10:51:37
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It is very nice feature, I use it often. Maybe it could be improved, of course, but I don't know how.
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/16 13:43:46
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Has worked this way since at least SONAR 8; I'm guessing it goes back to the introduction of the Synth Rack.
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/16 16:45:27
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williamcopper
I suppose sarcasm doesn't come through that well. This is a bug, a problem, it's new, and it is another thing that distracts from efficient workflow. Why in the world would anyone want a track focus to ONE of many synth tracks, done automatically, can't be disabled, can't be directed toward which track is good.
1) if focused track is already that synth related, the focus is not moved 2) focused track does not influence any selections (nor tracks, nor clips)
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Re: Sonar - Kingston - click on Synth changes track view focus
2015/12/16 20:38:22
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Beepster
It's intended behavior (and for most probably a desireable behavior). I am pretty sure I have it documented in tuts about the synth rack.
It is not a bug.
Submit a feature request that allows the user to disable this feature... and move on.
Probably not surprisingly given his familiarity with the program, azslow3 is correct...so if indeed only one person since at least SONAR 8 has found the intended behavior problematic, and it took until 2015 to notice it, then I can think of far better uses of Cakewalk's time than addressing another imaginary "bug" or creating yet another option that's irrelevant to seemingly the vast majority of the user base.
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