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'?
 

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?

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.

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? 

well that solves it John.      Thanks.

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.   
 

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.

It is very nice feature, I use it often. Maybe it could be improved, of course, but I don't know how.

Has worked this way since at least SONAR 8; I'm guessing it goes back to the introduction of the Synth Rack.

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)