Possible very trivial track cloning bug - X3E.

Hi Alex, I cannot reproduce here. Interestingly your settings for clone came up as default for me (I rarely use clone, and thought it odd it defaulted to track 3). It inserted the clone track as Track 2. Just to check further, I re-cloned Track 1 with the same settings two more times. It inserted Track 3, and then Track 4 cleanly for me.
 
I was curious if setting the track number would pose an issue, but it appears that it does not (it chooses the next unused track #).

Not quite sure what the issue is...... it all works fine here (both audio+midi and simple instrument track).

Well, it's the steps in #3 that I followed. Maybe I don't understand the Expected and Actual sections?
When there are 2 tracks, you can choose where you want the new (cloned) track to appear, either before the first track, before the second track or after the second track, no? And I can do all of these fine. 

I see what you mean, looking into it.

Ok, now I see what you mean. It's more apparent when you have, say, three simple instrument tracks and give their track strips different colors. If you select Clone Track on the first track and enter "4" in the Starting Track field, it ends up inserting the new track between the second and the third tracks.

Ths subject of issues with cloning simple instrument tracks has come up before. There was a pretty hot thread on it last summer:
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Why-are-mix-controls-on-cloned-instrument-tracks-linked-m2856182.aspx
 
My conclusion was that the concept of cloning (i.e. two or more tracks of the same type having exactly the same settings throughout but operating independently) is incompatible with the concept of simple instrument tracks (one MIDI track + one audio track + one soft synth all tied together), and should just be disallowed.
 
When you clone a Simple Instrument track, basically, the MIDI track gets cloned, but it has the controls (and the icon) of the Simple Instrument track from which is was cloned. So you end up with two tracks that have independent MIDI controls, but whose audio widgets control the same set of audio track parameters. Not only does this create confusion, there are some technical problems with the result (e.g. MIDI input echo on the clone can get get locked in the enabled state), and if you split the original, you can't make it back into an Instrument track without first redirecting the output of the MIDI clone.
 
I could be wrong, but I don't think anything has changed in the interim.

Confirmed by Cakewalk...