Split clip - bizarre behaviour, anyone else see this before

I'm seeing some very strange behaviour when trying to split a clip. Never seen it before but it is consistent at the moment. I think I've checked all the obvious but suggestions please.........

I have a cymbal track that originally had one long clip as a result of a mixdown & export in a different project. I have just recorded some fresh cymbals into a single clip in a new layer in the same track. One of them is slightly off on timing so I thought I'd split the clip and move the offending cymbal hit. Simple right? Er..... no........

For some reason when I try and split the clip the split is happening 5 1/2 beats before it should. I have my snap to set to 1/8. I have the now time in the right place and so far tried Alt+click, Keypress 'S' & Right context menu "Split..." command. The right click - context method does nothing. Both other methods same result.

Every other track is showing the exact same behaviour, no matter where I try to split the clip, any clip on any track, it splits at exactly the same position. This happens whether snap is active or not.

On further investigation the bass track has what looks like a split in its clip at the very point that the split happens. I say looks because it isn't a split, it is one single clip, but also at this point in the bass track there is a symbol at the bottom of the clip, just to the right of the "phantom split" that looks like a magnifying glass at an angle. It looks like it might be an audiosnap symbol. I haven't knowingly used audiosnap on the bass track but I have disabled it any way via the inspector. There are no transients at that point either, I've zoomed in and it actually falls between a couple of transients.

I have a feeling I may have inadvertently activated something or inserted something but I have no idea what. I've never seen anything like this before.

Anyone any ideas at all? Thanks in advance as always.

It's a big stretch, but if your magnetic snap is at weakest value, maybe?

Also, look in event list - all tracks. HTH - Shep

Could this be some sort of "offset" thingy??

See Enhanced Editing on page 382 of the Reference Guide. It's enabled/disabled by hitting 0 on your numeric keypad (EDIT: when Numlock is on).

Ah thanks for that brundlefly & garrigus. Just goes to show even after all these years of Sonar use, I've still got stuff left to learn.

My keyboard works like that even with num lock off but as I said I use a combined trackpad/numeric pad so perhaps that's why. Num lock here only affects the qwerty keys that double as numbers.

The snapping was the thing that confused me, I'd got into the mode unknowingly and then couldn't work out why everything was suddenly snapping to one point. Oh well, back to mixing...........

Thanks again.........

Perhaps it might come in handy if it is exposed in the Mackie Control Surface preference file.