Quick Group Output Change for Multiple Simple Instrument Tracks.

Is it 'normal' behaviour to be unable to quickgroup a selection of simple instrument tracks in track view and change all their bus outputs at once?

when I import midi tracks from Sibelius, quickgroup will not work to change their outputs.  Its a bug that got introduced in X1 and remains in X2.  A little surprised only a couple of us complained about it.

No this is a bug. CW has confirmed it. The workaround is save the project and open it up again and it should work. 

Bristol_Jonesey


Ah. I didn't know that John.

Saves me wracking my brains further.

Because the title is not about MIDI projects or opening a MIDI file and using ctrl quick groups to change the output I am not saying that a simple instrument track has this bug. I am saying that MIDI tracks when first imported or opened in a new project will not respond to quick groups and that is the bug. After a save and a reopen of the project they will. I no nothing about simple instrument tracks. I don't use them. 

Bristol_Jonesey


It must be getting late here, I'm misreading what people are posting.

I was trying to make it as clear as I could that I was not talking about simple instrument tracks. By doing that I probably made a confused situation more confused. My contribution is about MIDI files loaded into Sonar only. What sort of track they may occupy is not a part of my post. 

In the past one could select all and change the MIDI out for all MIDI tracks. You can't do that any more and quick groups are supposed to handle this function. The problem is they don't when you first load up a MIDI file without saving and turning the project in a cwp file and reloading it.

I have nothing to say about simple instruments track at all.  

Other observations: 1. mute cannot be quick grouped in Console View for a simple instrument track. 2. PC on/off cannot be quick grouped in Track View for a simple instrument track. 3. Sends cannot be quick grouped for a simple instrument track in both views (the selected track wont even change)

they are really helpful in reducing clutter, but the inability to change audio inputs (say to a l/r mono output from the synth), and lack of interleave button is annoying.

perfectprint


Other observations: 1. mute cannot be quick grouped in Console View for a simple instrument track. 2. PC on/off cannot be quick grouped in Track View for a simple instrument track. 3. Sends cannot be quick grouped for a simple instrument track in both views (the selected track wont even change)

I'm not sure what's going on but they all work as intended here. Is this just one project or all projects?

Off topic here, just curious what "quirks" people are finding in Simple Instrument tracks?  I havent done the 'old way' since Sonar 7.