Slide not working as expected for midi events - X3

Guitarmech111
I do a CTRL-A to select all tracks from beginning of project to end

 
You won't be able to slide anything earlier if your selection starts at 1:01:000. You need to set the start of the selection (i.e. From) to the start of the first clip. Lassoing clips with right-click+drag is often the easiest way to do this.

Should not be a problem, then, but Ctrl+A would have selected from 1:01:000. Check the highlight in the timeline.

Hmmm... all I can tell you is that there isn't any problem with sliding MIDI clips in general that I'm aware of. Either the position is locked or something else project-specific is preventing the slide.

here is what happened.
 
When I selected the midi clip all by itself, the selection start was 01:03:000 and I double clicked the clip to bring up the PRV. When I double clicked it, the time selection went from 1:01:000 instead of 1:03:00 where the clip actually started and was selected from.
 
I changed the selection time to 01:03:000 and the midi events shifted the desired amount. My click behavior for double click is supposed to pull up the PRV for midi clips, but does a select all as well. I did not expect that and don't think that the double click should cause the timeline selection to change. It did not do that in 8.5, X1 or X2. But saying that, the clip selection span in the timeline was not persistent once the midi clip was double clicked. 
 
Basically, midi double click and timeline selection is all fubar'd in the X series.

I think this may be an issue with older projects(WRK) being imported into X3. I created a new project and inserted a midi track with a few events. When clicking the midi clip, the timeline selected the timeline for the clip. When double clicking that clip, the timeline selection beginning changes to 1:01:000.
 
Gonna shoot Tech support a copy for their use to try a replicate.

brundlefly
It was a common complaint in X1 that double-clicking to open the PRV would leave all the events selected, but it didn't select anything before the start of the clip. That issue was addressed in X2 or X2a, leaving nothing selected after double-clicking a clip and that behavior persists in X3 for me.
 

 
I actually liked the behavior in X1 because if I want to deselect the events I just need to click the blank area inside the notes pane, but in X3 if I want to select all events in the clip I need to hide the MultiDock and single-click the clip and then show the MultiDock again, or lasso-select all the events.

This seems to be an issue of importing older projects into X3. I haven't checked X1 or X2 with all of these WRK files.

I am getting pushback from support with workarounds. I don't want a workaround, I would like to have a defect created since importing these files causes SONAR not to work as advertised. I would rather have this fixed.
 
 

The Now time and selection boundaries are independent. The PRV opens with the previous selected clip roughly centered in the view. The Now time will stay wherever it is. Nothing should be selected at that point, and whenever everything is de-selected, the From and Thru time default to wherever the Now time is. You can't re-enable a previous selection without defining a new From and Thru time, so I don't see that this is a problem...?

Alt+3 opens the PRV at the Now time, independent of any selection, while double-clicking is asking SONAR to show a specific selection in the PRV. This gives you two options, depending on what your goal is (e.g. view/edit an existing clip or add new events at the Now time).