Today's glitches/annoyances

1. Carefully made a 9 bar selection, snapped to the grid, so that I could cut and paste some audio clips that were aligned correctly but not starting on measure boundaries. eg. Audio clip starts at 8:03:050, so I selected started from 8:01:000. Pasted it elsewhere, and saw that Sonar 'helpfully' changes the size of the selection to starts at the start of the earliest clip, meaning it pastes in at an unexpected position that is no longer aligned relative to measures. Thanks! I had to artificially extend the clips to measure boundaries, cut/paste them, then trim them again.
 
2. Stretched audio (via ctrl-slip-edit) occasionally plays back with major glitches - i.e. peaks of +9.0dB, even +99dB once! Bounce-to-clip solves the problem, but something was obviously broken.
 
3. The first time I hit Play after switching from one open project to another, I often get a high pitched squeal instead of my audio. Occasionally I get no audio at all. Stopping and restarting transport fixes that.
 
4. Snap-offsets getting messed up when I do anything involving time-stretching clips where the underlying audio appears in more than one clip... that wastes my time and requires a bounce, too.
 
All these problems have workarounds, but it's tiring to run into these issues when I'm trying to be creative!

I may be the only one but the snap stuff is probably the most clunky part of the interface to me. I spend a lot of time enabling and disabling snap, bypassing snap temporarily and especially switching between snap by and snap to. For some reason whenever I use Logic (everyone around me uses it), even though I feel a little handicapped because I don't know the interface as well as I do Sonar's, everything always seems to snap exactly where I'd expect it to without me ever even considering snap settings. I really hope there can be an overhaul of the current implementation.

I think the smart grid being on by default throws users when first confronted by it.
I generally know the beat of the song and just set the global and PRV grids accordingly,
thus pre-empting any problems. Sonar 8.5 had no Smart grid.

I generally turn Smart grid off - it's wrong as often as it's right, it seems to me.
 
But, hey, I'm highjacking this thread on an unproductive rant, so over and out.

I agree there, SmartGrid doesn't usually do what I expect while Logic's does. I end up doing it manually which takes a lot of time.

As to Snap/Smart Grid...because I need to alternate constantly between snap/no snap when doing editing, tweaking timings, loop libraries, etc., my to Snap Happiness is keyboard shortcuts. "N" (snap on/off) is right up there with "D" as keyboard keys mostly likely to wear out. However, I also created a keybinding for Smart Grid on/off (alt-shift-N), and disabled Snap to Zero Audio Crossings. Between those and keybindings for my most-used snap values, things are wicked fast here in snap land.