Some new "features" I could do without: Freezing & MIDI Selection Issues

Hello Good People,

I've got two more anomalies in X1 which you may have faced yourselves:

1. With the transport module visible in the control bar, freezing soft synths takes an unreasonable amount of time. Hide the Transport module or the entire control bar prior to starting a freeze and a little pop up progress bar comes up for a few seconds and everything's ok!! Don't have a clue why this is happening but have submitted a problem card to Cakewalk.

2. When selecting events in the Piano Roll view, in particular with drum tracks, I often can't simply highlight a few notes without some extra notes I didn't select being included in the selection!! e.g. I'll highlight a number of hi hats notes only to find that a kick, a tom and a snare note within a measure of my choice has also been selected. This is certainly a "feature" I could do without! :) 

Has anyone had similar issues?

  

Hi Beagle,

Thanks for the reply!

The freezing issue only popped up after the patch X1b, but also after I installed Komplete 7 from NI. However, it affects everything even when no Komplete Instrument is loaded up (e.g. with just Dimension Pro!). Without the transport module, anything including the NI stuff works fine, so I'm really at a loss trying to pinpoint the cause!! 


I reloaded x1 just in case, and it's still there!

The Midi copying issue has been there for me since PE 8, so I was hoping that it would have been sorted out by X1b!! The Snap settings don't and probably shouldn't have an effect on this issue. It might be a graphics issue on my machine [....scratches head!!]

I very rarely freeze but did have a slow bounce cured by changing my BounceBufSizeMsec from 0 to 100. (Preferences->Audio->Config file

Regarding the random note selection. I seem to remember a similar post a while ago where it was suggested that the "select controllers along with notes" option may have some bearing on that, but have no idea whether that was the reason or not. I personally don't get the problem but evidently others have.

Hey Beagle, 

Pretty much all of them. It all started when I did a project completely in NI instruments, this afternoon. I can't recall freezing tracks since I upgraded however, so I am unsure what's triggered the fault. However, even if NI triggered it, how does the presence of a unloaded soft synth on the harddrive cause it to act the same way for all other synths?? It's a little nuts!! :)

Hey backwoods!

Thanks for the reply! So I'm not the only one!! Do you have any NI soft synths too? It may be a combinatorial issue.
I've posted a fault to Cakewalk Problem Reporter http://www.cakewalk.com/support/contact/problemreport.aspx
Maybe if enough people find this fault the fix will be in the next QuickFix/Patch release :)

Thanks Uche,

I had a look at that file when i first encountered the problem. I think my settings are what the file says they should be, but I will recheck when I get the chance.  

Somehow where the time/bar locator in the little neon blue screen would once turn off when the bounce is in progress, it now stays. I have never even waited to see if the bounce will ever complete- life's too short. CTRL-ALT-Delete stops Sonar clean at that point. Edit: I should reiterate bounce works fine when the control bar is not showing

I'm going to try and do something I think is beyond me- I'm going to try and compile a proper bug report. It looks like a pretty tedious procedure though- may need a few beers to get motivated...

Thanks for passing along what you have learnt Uche.