Howdy, all. I tried doing a search about this issue, but I don't think I'm using the right terms. Here are my problems as best as I can explain it:

I jumped from Sonar 8, PE to Sonar X3(and am now on Platinum). There was a bit of a learning curve, but all-in-all, I mostly dig the features in the new versions.

However, there are two huge things that are very bothersome.

1. Is there a way to turn off the clip-select in the take lanes (used to be called layers)? Now, if you click on a clip, it selects that as the active clip and mutes any other clips that overlap it in the same time region. Sometimes I accidentally click on a clip and then I don't know which was the good take. Does that make sense? Anybody else have this problem?

2. What happened to the drag-window-select function (not really sure what to call it)? For instance, say I have eight tracks of drums. I used to be able to drag a select-window and just catch the edges of the clips and it would select the whole clips. Now, wherever the select-window stops, it splits the clip. 

Any help would be much appreciated!

Cheers!

Hi, welcome to the forums.
 
1. Clicking the lower half of a clip (which you did) in Take lanes activates the clip and mutes all the other clips in the track in that section. Clicking the upper half only selects the clip.
 
2. I think you're talking about lasso-selecting. Hold down the right-click button on your mouse and drag (touch) the clips you want to select.
 
Hope that helps

Thanks! Lasso . . . that's what it's called! And it's just right-click....yeesh, you think I would've figured that out.
 
I was aware of clicking on the tops and bottoms of the clips, but I was wondering if there is a way to turn off the clip-select-mute-other-clips function. I get moving pretty fast when recording/editing and I know I'll accidentally click something again in the future.

I would either:
 
- switch to the Select tool
 
or
 
- select the entire track and choose Clip Lock > Lock Data from the right-click menu, if I didn't want to switch to the Select tool.