Why is X2 selecting clips I am nowhere NEAR selecting?

It's doing it again. I select a clip in a completely different track to mute/unmute/tweak/etc and it randomly selects clips all over the place thus applying the function I want to perform on the original clip to ALL of them. This is driving me crazy. Is anyone else experiencing this?

Well I just kind of figured out a way to fix it but it makes absolutely no sense to me why it was causing this problem in the first place. In the right click menu I tried "Isolate Clips In Lane" and it kept it from selecting the other bit I didn't want to screw with. But how this started was I was doing something in my guitar tracks (muting a section of a lane) and it muted a section of my MIDI drums. Then when I tried to unmute the MIDI clips it selected unmuted clips so when I unmuted the clips that got randomly muted the ones that WEREN'T muted ended up muted and vice versa. What the heck is going on here?

Anyway... there is obviously something I am missing but that is just screwed up. I tried all sorts of stuff and just happened to hit that isolate clips option on a whim. Does this make any sense? Cheers.

And to explain a little further while I listen to the whole track to make sure everything is still there... I was working on my rhythm guitar track. I was comping the takes, basically I wanted to mute a section of one take and for some reason it muted my BFD tracks for a section that was in the general area of what I had just muted but it didn't line up to the actual section I just muted. I hadn't even touched the BFD track for ages so it shouldn't have been selected in any way. It's just weird. This was happening as I worked on the BFD track originally too. Random sections were getting selected as I worked with it so as I was trying to delete unwanted takes it would take out other parts with it. Anyway... everything seems okay but I'd like to understand what might be going on here so I can be aware of it in the future.

I should mention I still haven't installed the Quick Fix yet so if it's related to that it might be my own sloth to blame. Cheers.

Also, there's a feature that automatically groups clips.  It may be causing the issue.  Check in PREFERENCES > PROJECT > RECORD and uncheck "Group Clips Across Tracks." That may keep this from happening in the future.

I just looked and the Group Clips Across Tracks option was not checked so I don't think it's that. :-/

I just see "Record X"

x being the number of the clip. No numbers in little boxes like in your pic. I just did another function and it worked so hopefully I can move forward. Noticing some other unrelated weirdness. I guess now that I'm heading into the mixing phase I'm gonna start seeing the little quirks. I'm sure most of which will be attributable to user error but this selection thing was certainly a weird one. Cheers.  

Hi Beebster,

 I can confirm your issue. I noticed the same behavior here as well. Clips seem to get selected when I don't even touch them. It only happens when working in lanes as far as I observed it. And only the mute/unmute function in my case...so far. Can't get my head around this. 
...I'm not so sure if this is a user error.

regards,
Daniel
 

@Noisy Neighbor. Thanks for posting. I am indeed working with lanes. Okay... maybe I'm not going crazy. Oof. I was hoping to have all my slip edits and fades done by now. If this a bug it's a pretty annoying one. If it's some weird default setting it's very strange and confusing. Cheers.

I have installed the quick fix, but there was significant assurance that the quick fix could only impact a small handful of things and that it was largely safe.

Let's get specific...
I have seen
- pro channel outputs roll up and down (I presume related to me using scroll wheel to scroll in trackview)
- EQ items in the Vocal FX thing disabled (bands disabled) - I'm meaning the vocal fx with the exander compressor, de-Ser, delay, stereo widener, eq

I've seen faders move, but I use fader automation so that's less of an issue.

I have thought I was editing one track while modifying FX on another track by accident.

Win 8 x64, Sonar Pro X64

Yeah, that certainly sounds like a selection issue. I'm just gonna toss another tidbit out there that I'm using a Kensington trackball that requires drivers. Mayhaps has something to do with the drivers?

Anyway... I'm just gonna rethink this project and not try to be too fancy with my comping. I just had some nicer sections of specific takes I was trying to use but if this is gonna be happening I'm gonna just stay with the full takes and hope for the best. If anyone else is having this issue let's get this reported for the first patch because if it is a bug it has got to go. If it is some weird workflow "enhancement" that's eluding us it would be good to have it in the forums collective brain trust for others encountering it. Cheers.

For me, it might be the identical topic as the scroll wheel disable. I'm not sure there has been any issue that wasn't related to the scroll wheel for me, except thinking I was modifying one track when I was modifying another (this was user error). So... :-) I'm really pretty happy.

One small thing... Sometimes the little bouncing line on the Sonitus compressor doesn't bounce on the line and it makes me wonder if it's working. I get very confused when the user interface stops performing as I expect. I abandoned attempts to use side chain compressors twice in my current project ( but again... probably user error ). I could get the thing to bounce when in the FX bin and not using side chain, but when in the Pro Channel in the FX Chain it didn't work as I expected it to.

Oh ok! That's cool. Never knew that one.

I've just been saving the Pro Channels.

I record the whole night then bounce each track.

I save evolutions of the pro channel settings for each track and bus.

Then I can always restore. to that track as I mixed it.

Anyway, I think I'm too kerflustered to continue on with this project tonight and I know it's the weekend so most folks aren't around but if anyone else is having selection issues or has some insight please post. This is a real show stopper. Cheers.