Song Won't Stop

How about "Stop at Project End" in Global Options?

I just discovered something. I archived one of the soft synth tracks (Dimension LE) and now the song stops where it is supposed to. I suspected that track because the sample has a lot of echo/delay in it which rings past the end of the song. Now gotta dig into that synth and see what the problem is. Any suggestions on that?

Hey, glad I could help :) Next time though, try to figure this out for yourself ok? I'm a busy man!

Edit: Seriously though, I'm surprised by your solution a little. Theoretically, if Dimension LE was causing the problem because it had some wave that went on long past where you thought, that should have shown up in the frozen track, no? But if it worked, it worked. Maybe it's a bug or something...

Projects not stopping at the end are a common problem, unfortunately.

Personally I'm convinced that the problem stems from having muted clips/tracks, as I find the same project will behave properly if nothing is muted. I passed this discovery on to Cakewalk ages ago, but they didn't respond. We'll have to hope they fix it in the next release...

How can they "fix it"?

They can fix it by implementing start-of-song and end-of-song markers that let you specify where the beginning and ending of the song is.

They would default to 00:00:00 and the last event, but be movable. The SOS marker would allow you to eliminate count-ins and silence at the beginning, either during playback or export. The EOS marker would eliminate run-on projects and allow you to specify an end point even if there were more events after it.

I mentioned the idea on the forum once before, and Bob Damiano replied that it was a good idea.

Hopefully, Bob's still in a position to sneak in those little enhancements that make SONAR special.

Hopefully, the concept of incremental usability improvements still fits in with the Roland corporate culture. They're Japanese, so I'm hopeful.

Version 8 will indicate the future of SONAR, I think.

1. Hit Ctrl-A, then unselect all.
2. Select all midi tracks by selecting the first one, then hold Ctrl and select all other midi tracks exactly over the track number so that they all turn black (selected).
3. Right-click in a non-clipped area in one of the midi tracks in the right pane.
4. Select Bounce to Clip(s) from the drop-down menu.

I've had Cakewalk ever since version 1.0 by Greg Hendershott (?sp), and every so often a project just doesn't stop at the end of the project. But I discovered that this procedure has always worked for me. Seems to be a anomoly from entering the midi data and something somewhere sticks and stays on, even though it doesn't show in viewed data.

I found a new project was doing this today and when played from near the end where there was no midi data playing, only audio, the project would not stop at the end. But if I played the project ending and included playing from where the last midi events played, then the project would end at the end of the project. So I selected all the midi in the project, then bounced to clip(s) and now, when starting from almost the end of the song, where the midi has finished, but still audio playout, the project finally stops at the end of the project. Wierd, but I've had to use this procedure a few times over the years.

Hope it works on your projects too.