I saw the video of copying a pattern of midi notes and then just painting this pattern instead of pasting exactly at the beginning of measures and thought that would be great.
 
So, of course, I had a pattern of notes that I wanted to copy into other measures of the same track... and after I copied the pattern, I went to the PAINT mode and tried to PAINT the pattern across many measure, SONAR completely LOCKED UP.  
 
I think perhaps I was doing it wrong so, is there anyone out there that can point me to a PRIMER on how to perform this manuever so I can try it again?
 
Thanks in advance,
Jim

jkleban
I saw the video of copying a pattern of midi notes and then just painting this pattern instead of pasting exactly at the beginning of measures and thought that would be great.
 
So, of course, I had a pattern of notes that I wanted to copy into other measures of the same track... and after I copied the pattern, I went to the PAINT mode and tried to PAINT the pattern across many measure, SONAR completely LOCKED UP.  
 
I think perhaps I was doing it wrong so, is there anyone out there that can point me to a PRIMER on how to perform this manuever so I can try it again?
 
Thanks in advance,
Jim

Hi Jim-
 
I can repro this. It works for me in Track View, but in PRV I get the hang as you described.  Selected some notes, chose Pattern Tool, dragged to copy and SONARPLT went non-responsive.
 
-Susan

Ugh. When I restarted SONAR with the same project and tried it again, it worked, so this might be one of those "hard to repro" things.  I hadn't done much with this test project, so hopefully I can rebuild it from scratch.
 
-Susan

yeah...it locked on me too.  "Sonar is unresponsive".   Plus, can you only do one track at a time?  I wasn't able to grab 4 bars, say of my entire project and paint it elsewhere.

mixmkr
yeah...it locked on me too.  "Sonar is unresponsive".   Plus, can you only do one track at a time?  I wasn't able to grab 4 bars, say of my entire project and paint it elsewhere.

It does seem it's limited to one track at a time.
 
-Susan

It's still a very cool feature, though, IMO.  I like being able to just select a file in the Media Browser and paint it/roll it back in a track without having to import it. The PRV glitch needs to be fixed, of course.
 
-Susan

It "would" work...but after fiddling with it for a bit, to try and get more "painted"...it would become unresponsive. 
I too saw the video and had to immediately try it out.  Cool feature and will be glad when it's sorted out!

Susan G
It's still a very cool feature, though, IMO.  I like being able to just select a file in the Media Browser and paint it/roll it back in a track without having to import it. The PRV glitch needs to be fixed, of course.
 
-Susan

+1 Very cool. Speeding up MIDI editing a lot

Make sure to submit a problem report so that the bakers know its an issue.

I've used the midi painting a few times and haven't had this happen yet. I'll use it some more (hopefully I get a chance to today) and see if I can reproduce this.