Sometimes after using a patch (like the default one) which has a heavy delay effect on it, I'll switch to a patch (or even a different project with a sound center instrument) and I'll have a delay on a patch that's never had it before. The only way to get rid of it, is to go in and change the instrument it's synthesizing and then reselect the intended patch... Am I doing something wrong or is it a bug?

I hate to see a question set here for 2 days with no relies..... but I have not had and will not have the time to check this out in detail for several more days. 

Switching to a new sample in CSC should not keep any sort of echo. I'm thinking the.... Hello, hello, hello, hello   ......kind of echo

 A delay however..... that is latency. That goes back to the sound card, the drivers and the settings for latency and buffers. And CSC is after all a midi based synth and subject to latency with less than optimal sound card and drivers. 

I don't recall your exact sound card since it's not in your signature....

It's certainly an echo... I often think of Echo and Delay as musically similar, but I forget that in dealing with computers, delay can be something different. It's an echo. And it's not even on the same synth track. It'll be on a completely different track.

But also, I'm having another issue of trying to watch staff view as the song plays... but when the cursor moves off screen, the screen stays put instead of switching further down... any way to fix that?

yeah..... try clicking below the tracks in track view....or when you stop the playback simply click at a slightly different place on the staff.....then playback again.... it should follow along

if you edit in a track it wants to stay there because it thinks you are working on that section. Does that for your convenience 

yeah I click below the tracks, but it wont budge. I appreciate the convenience but if there's a way to disable that, I'd like it.

To be fair, I'm clicking below them and it's resetting the current time. So it's jumping back to wherever I click.

Turn off scroll lock (on your keyboard).

scroll lock... that did it. Seems kind of silly almost. Thank you for your help.

Have you still got the echo?