OK, installed Kingston today, and this is still no bueno. It's now filed as a problem report: CWBRN-41961
I hope there's some new INI tweak or something I'm missing, but I'll give y'all a concrete example of why this is a real problem....
Hypothetically, I have 16 measure multi-track drum recording, and I want to copy/paste that to create a 32 measure part. Then, I want to slip edit the last measure of the newly pasted section to insert a fill.
First, I group the clips of original 16-measure riff, which gives me Group 1. There's a timing problem in measure 8, so I want to fix that before copying. I split the problem bar on either side, and adjust timing to taste. That leaves me with three groups: Group 1 (meas. 1-7), Group 2 (meas. 8), and Group 3 (meas. 9-16). All good.
Now, I copy/paste the 16 measure chunk with its three groups, giving me a new section starting at measure 17. The new chunk still has three sets of clips: meas. 17-23, meas. 24, and meas. 25-32. BUT....they are ALL put into Group 4. If I slip edit the last measure like I'd planned, since all three sections are now part of the same group, they will all follow the edit. In other words, when I slip edit measure 32, the clips from meas. 17-23 will also change, as will the clips at meas. 24.
I suppose there are two workarounds.... You could un-group and re-group clips, but that quickly becomes seriously impractical if you're dealing with a multi-track source that has multiple edits as opposed to the relatively simple example above. Selecting clips individually also becomes a giant PITA when dealing with a series of very short edits, like cleaning up a sloppy 16th note drum fill.
Neither workaround is a really adequate solution, so I really hope I'm either missing a setting in Preferences or CW has a hot-fix coming up - this is a serious problem in my world, and I don't want to have to revert to X3 just to do multi-track group edits....
cheers!