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SOLVED: Displaying waveforms in X3
I use Sonar X3 mainly for MIDI, so I only just realized that audio tracks are supposed to display waveforms. Mine never have; they show the preview during recording, but as soon as recording stops, the clip just displays as a solid swath. Any idea how to make it show waveforms? I've tried recomputing pictures; it didn't help. The audio tracks play back fine, so I know the data is there.
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/12 21:00:55
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☄ Helpfulby Awesomer 2017/11/12 21:17:34
Have you updted to X3e? There were bugs in X3 but the e update fixed most.  What do you see if you zoom in or make the track hieght taller?
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/12 21:18:31
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Great suggestion; thanks! I'll update to X3e and see if that works. When I zoom in or embiggen the track, it stays a solid color.
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/12 21:34:09
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Well, that didn't fix it, but I'm glad I applied the patch, in any case!
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/12 21:41:27
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/12 21:51:31
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Another good suggestion, but no dice. While I was at it I checked the maximum picture cache size, and it was 500MB, which seems more than adequate. Mysterious.
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/12 22:20:26
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/12 23:00:29
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That works fine; it draws very nice waveforms for synth tracks when I enable it.
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/12 23:44:06
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Very odd. To bad you can't post a picture until you get around 25 posts. So e mail me a screen shot and I'll look at it and post it for you johnvere@telus.net
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/13 01:51:22
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Much obliged. Email coming your way.
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/13 04:22:54
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OK got it I'll try and post it here but I'm working crippled as I'm away from home using my stupid little XP netbook which doesn't have passwords for half my stuff so I have to hack my Imgur account somehow.
Well track 2 is definatly looking weird as a solid colour which if it's a wave form would play back a white noise or something real bad.. Did you solo the track?
But Track 4 is a mystery as that's a midi track?? I'm not sure that is possible for a midi track to show a solid colour.
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/13 04:31:59
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/13 04:41:37
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/13 13:37:53
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I had no idea that MIDI tracks weren't supposed to be solid. I can switch the display to notes and see the events that way, but for clips this is what it has always shown.
I've used various audio interfaces, but at the moment I use a Yeti mic and a little Behringer USB input. My driver is ASIO4ALL; I'll play with the settings and check out those threads, and then I'll report on the results.
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/13 17:17:57
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☼ Best Answerby Awesomer 2017/11/13 19:19:43
PROBLEM SOLVEDWell there you go, you solved your problem without realizing it. The minute you said your midi always shows as solid unless you change the view a lightbulb turned on. So that's all that was wrong. you somehow changed your view from the default. Just make sure the "DIsplay clip contents" is checked. By default I guess it's always on because until you mentioned this I didn't even know that box existed.. I unchecked it and my track view went all solid like yours. 
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/13 17:22:37
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Here's with the box unchecked. This is X1 but I think all is the same still. I forgot I still had X1 on my netbook. I'm 300 miles away from my DAW. 
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/13 19:20:18
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Fantastic! That's it. Much obliged.
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Re: Displaying waveforms in X3
2017/11/13 21:29:50
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If you have a minute mark this thread solved and it will help others with this problem in the future. Glad it works, and as always, I learned something new about Sonars menu's
I can see you might use that feature when recording live to lower CPU graphic usage. Otherwise I doubt anybody ever turns that off.
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