Snap To Grid will there be a fix? or is it not broken?

Ok last night I must of cursed every word in the book, I guess since being a Sonar user from Version 2.2  I must  no nothing, and what happen last night I couldn't figure it out, over an hr working on it..  I have" snap set to " when you right click, set to measure, in fact I tried every possible feature ,  I could not get my clips to snap at all.. I restarted and it worked, Im sorry there's something seriously wrong with Snap to grid. I hope CW can confirm that a patch is in the works, I absoultley love X1 but with out the ability of snap working I can not arrange my clips. I never Had this problem..  Why would it work from 1 second and then dead in the water the next . and then unable to get it work at all until a restart.
 This isn't a whine or a complaint this is a cry for help. I cant make music in a proficient way with out snap working correct.  Am I the only one struggling with this ? Is it really this hard ? Please tell me there's a fix in the works or not I dont want to waste my time with X1 and learn the ins and outs if snap to grid don't work for me. I would be better off learning Abelton better at this time if cake can't confirm a fix for Snap to grid in the future, PLEASE HELP , I feel like I never recorded before and I'm a newbee here.
 Note Im not trying to stir up anything negative posts here , I really just want to know what the hell am I doing wrong. YES it works after a restart

Yes its being foxed ion X1b

Thanks Larry I been reading all I can about snap, In fact I call support up , got the basics down on how they said it should work, Thought it was working fine for a bit , besides the switching of the resolutions and then last night with it active , it would not snap at all, WPITA

Mike Thanks for the reply, I sure Hope they sort it out soon!!!!

I just ran into the Snap issue today for the first time and I've been using X1 since it came out.  There is nothing I can do.  I've got my snap setting magnetism set to the highest level.. Snap doesn't work anywehre for me.  Clips, midi notes, etc.  It is dead.  I tried rebooting and still doesn't work.  I'm going to try re-installing now.

guitartrek


I just ran into the Snap issue today for the first time and I've been using X1 since it came out.  There is nothing I can do.  I've got my snap setting magnetism set to the highest level.. Snap doesn't work anywehre for me.  Clips, midi notes, etc.  It is dead.  I tried rebooting and still doesn't work.  I'm going to try re-installing now.

That sucks. It just up and quit working?

When I first started using X1, I was befuddled with the snap as well.
I didn't seem to be able to get it to work.
Then after messing with the preferences/magnetic strength, screen resolution, grid, etc. it now works perfectly and I can't get it to "not" work.
I really don't know what I did or changed so there may indeed be a bug, but at this point it works for me.
I also have not had any "lasso" type problems.
Strange indeed.

Geno, what happens when you toggle the magnetic strength on/off or leave off?

guitartrek


I just ran into the Snap issue today for the first time and I've been using X1 since it came out.  There is nothing I can do.  I've got my snap setting magnetism set to the highest level.. Snap doesn't work anywehre for me.  Clips, midi notes, etc.  It is dead.  I tried rebooting and still doesn't work.  I'm going to try re-installing now.

By the way, you do realize that the "highest level" of magnetism is Off--?  A few weeks ago someone was patiently arguing for the logic of how this is laid out, but it still doesn't make sense to me.  As soon as you choose a level of magnetism, you're choosing a less-than-100% snap strength.  With it off, you have absolute full magnetic snap - which is what we all need when arranging clips.

It can't be determined from these posts what's going on with Snap seeming to suddenly disappear, but I don't think it's a behavior that many of us are finding.  Snap is working for me, though I remember when I first installed X1, the defaults didn't seem to be working the way I expected in the PRV.

Randy B.

rbowser

guitartrek


I just ran into the Snap issue today for the first time and I've been using X1 since it came out.  There is nothing I can do.  I've got my snap setting magnetism set to the highest level.. Snap doesn't work anywehre for me.  Clips, midi notes, etc.  It is dead.  I tried rebooting and still doesn't work.  I'm going to try re-installing now.

By the way, you do realize that the "highest level" of magnetism is Off--?  A few weeks ago someone was patiently arguing for the logic of how this is laid out, but it still doesn't make sense to me.  As soon as you choose a level of magnetism, you're choosing a less-than-100% snap strength.  With it off, you have absolute full magnetic snap - which is what we all need when arranging clips.

It can't be determined from these posts what's going on with Snap seeming to suddenly disappear, but I don't think it's a behavior that many of us are finding.  Snap is working for me, though I remember when I first installed X1, the defaults didn't seem to be working the way I expected in the PRV.

Randy B.

Randy - It's funny because I opened the problem project (the one where snap doesn't work) and the snap magnet setting was set to "off".  (it was not "off" before though).  I changed to 100% still doesn't work.  Closed without saving and re-opened, snap magnet is now at 100%.  I checked a couple other strenths to no avail.  There is definitely something wrong now with this one project. 
 
I don't know Randy.  I'be been working with a little over a dozen projects over the last few weeks - this is the first time I ran into this issue. 

guitartrek



I'd been working with a little over a dozen projects over the last few weeks - this is the first time I ran into this issue. 

Isn't it a drag when something totally inconsistent like this comes up?  Argh!

"... I went and looked up counter intuitive in the dictionary and there was a picture of X1's magnetism dialog box..."

hehe--We have the same dictionary, HumbleNoise 

R

guitartrek

Randy - It's funny because I opened the problem project (the one where snap doesn't work) and the snap magnet setting was set to "off".  (it was not "off" before though).  I changed to 100% still doesn't work.  Closed without saving and re-opened, snap magnet is now at 100%.  

There is no "100%" in the snap preferences, right?
Off, Low, Medium, High.
I find turning it "off" makes it easier to be sure it's working.

I just made an interesting discovery.  Snap wasn't working for me just minutes ago until I changed "move to" to "move by", and now it works like a charm.  That's the first time I ever had to change that setting to make Snap work, but I wonder if it will do the same for others.  Maybe everyone else was using it all along, hard to say.  Anyway, it fixed my problem this time, but who knows about the next time?
All the best,
Lynn

HumbleNoise


The problem (or benefit) with 'move by' is that if your not lined up with a definitive time or beat when you 'move by' you'll simply move that misaligned clip to a new misaligned spot 'by' the amount spec'd in the snap setting. 'Move to' moves your clip to the nearest division 1/4 18/ etc. no matter where you start moving from. (If you already knew that sorry for being redundant)

EDIT and for the above reason my default is set to 'move to' YMMV.

I get what you're saying.  That is why I've never changed that feature until now.  I was trying to "move to" with and without the magnet on, and at various settings, with no success.  Only after changing this setting did the Snap to Grid work.  Of course, I would never move anything that was misaligned in the first place.  I normally use "measure" as my STG setting in order to keep the timing of whatever I'm moving in place relative to where they were positioned on the timeline or within the clip.  I've never had this much difficulty in the past.  I'm hoping that CW rethinks their philosophy about Snap to Grid.

Geno,
In the non working project, you don't have the absolute, or snap to midi landmarks, etc. highlighted as well do you?
Just a thought.

guitartrek, Can you go back to 8.53 and change a setting there that might carry over to X1?