[CWBRN-23593] - Pause doesn't pause, it does "Stop with Now Marker"

I can't see how Cakewalk could possibly confirm this - Pause works exactly as expected here Jlienx

I think I understand the point here. When you cycle pause, the "marker" at the top of the track view continues to creep forward, so if your intent is to play parts and then revert back to where you started, you cannot. It doesn't keep a memory of its initial location before the entire process begins (i.e. when you finally do want to revert to the now time marker, it actually reverts to the last place you paused it).

I do know that the space bar stops working intermittently but is related some how to a MEMORY bleed.  SAVE the project seems to clean up the bleed and the space bar starts working again on the transport.
 
Jim
 
PS - been happening since X1

Jlien X

brundlefly
Pause does not have a default binding, but I've had it bound to Alt+Spacebar

 
Same here. So you must have noticed the bug immediately as well.

Actually, I disable On Stop Rewind to Now Marker, and mostly just use Spacebar to stop playback without rewinding. If I need to keep restarting from a certain point, I usually set up a loop. So I hadn't actually noticed the problem, but when I saw all the contradictory responses in this thread I did quick check to confirm and thought I'd try to help clear up some confusion.

Updated previous post as I had previously wrote the opposite of what I meant.

Surely this IS a bug? Not fixed in X3e.  Page 191 of the X3 ref guide:
 
"To pause playback
• Click the Pause button .
Playback stops, but the Now Time cursor and the Now Time marker do not move."
But with 'rewind on stop' checked, the marker (the blob at the top of the track pane) stays in place on 'play' and the cursor (the vertical line) jumps back to it on 'stop'.  But 'pause' does not just stop the transport, it also moves the 'now' marker forward to the 'now' cursor position, creating a new 'stop' position, rather than just pausing everything in place. 
 
With 'rewind on stop' unchecked, hitting 'play' makes the 'now' marker move with the 'now' cursor, so 'pause' has the same effect as 'stop' - the cursor has nowhere else to jump back to. 
 
I feel the correct operation would be for the 'now' marker to stay where it is on 'play' in either case and 'pause' should allow the transport to resume from the current cursor position.  If 'rewind on stop' is checked, the 'now' cursor should jump back to the 'now' marker position when 'stop' is hit, as now .  But, if 'rewind on stop' is not checked pressing 'stop' - when transport is paused or running - should force the marker to jump forward to the 'now' cursor position.  But pressing 'pause' during playback should leave it where it is.
 
I am a long-time fan of Sonar, I hope this comment is taken as constructively as it is meant