Ya know I've been using Sonar since 6 and the DEL key is how I cleared clips in a hurry.
So it's muscle memory from sometime that worked differently before.
 
I know that focusing on a fx bin and hitting the DEL key will delete the effect without warning AFAIK
anyway. - there should be an alert as there is for the synth deletion.
 
I'll try docking at the bottom tonight when I get home.

bitman

John
I just tried this on my Laptop. I put TTS-1 in the Synth Rack and it was not docked but placed above the Browser. By default the Synth Rack is not docked. Then I used the delete key to delete it and it was deleted. It was the only synth in the rack. There is also a big red x in the synth rack for deleting synths. So far unless I am not understanding the issue I see nothing wrong. 

What's an it? The clip or the synth?

The subject is the synth. Therefore it is the synth.
 
However, a dialog came up asking if I wanted to also delete the tracks for that synth I said yes. All of the tracks and the synth were deleted using the delete key.

In that case you're not testing what the problem is at all. Bitman selects a clip he wants to delete, hits the delete key, and instead a synth from the synth rack is deleted.

Sanderxpander
In that case you're not testing what the problem is at all. Bitman selects a clip he wants to delete, hits the delete key, and instead a synth from the synth rack is deleted.

OK then I misunderstood. 

And I forgot to test it docked at the bottom. Such a gumby. Maybe tomorrow.

I'm running 2017.1.  I'm able to delete clips by clicking on the clip to select it, then using the delete key.  Works the same as with previous versions.  This is how I've done it for years - no change for me in 2017.1
 
 

Same here, updated last night and worked today without issue.

Ok well, buggers, it's not happening anymore.

electrons... how many times have I had some weird phenomena happen in SPLAT,  replicate it several times, think about posting a bug on the forum, then decide to exit/reboot/reload/wait for a day and it works without incident?  A few weeks ago I came close to starting a log of odd behaviors, but then I thought, naaaaaa...