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.