I've got one song and one song only, that doesn't stop at the last event. The cursor keeps going forever - just curious, what does Sonar understand to be the end?
 
Thanks - rev

http://forum.cakewalk.com...-playing-m1978784.aspx

Interesting thread but no solution. I don't have data beyond the end, I don't have empty MIDI clips beyond the end, FX tails wouldn't last forever and a Global setting should apply to all songs.
 
On Stop it does return to the original cursor position so it's not a big deal. Maybe invisible data is still flowing - like a CC that's unassigned but still qualifies as data received or maybe Sonar fails to see note-off for the last MIDI note?

I've also found that having ANY midi clip MUTED, will prevent 8.5.3 from stopping.
 
Do you perhaps have any muted clips?

That's normal for all my songs that I create. What I usually do is just create loop points in the timeline to keep it from going on forever.

Ah Ha!
 
Yes, there is always at least one muted MIDI clip in any of my songs so I'll check that - but why is only one song misbehaving? It seems to imply more than one condition, a muted MIDI clip WITH something else.
 
I can see that a muted MIDI (not an Archived clip) with data would prevent Stop at End, because the data is still being processed but it shouldn't be an issue if the clip has no data past the end. Curious.

I find that Sonar keeps going even on projects without MIDI. A lot of my projects are audio only with no MIDI tracks but Sonar will keep playing after all of the audio tracks have stopped. 

Baffling. A Global setting should be just that - and a bug with a Global setting should be consistent too...

If you have audio tracks only and Sonar keeps going, then there is something there. Get to the end point you want, highlight all the tracks and to the end of wherever it is by the From Now Thru End - and Delete everything using Edit and hole left by whatever it is.
I bet the cursor will not keep going after that when saving and playing the song again.
I bet it even works for Midi tracks also.
No, there is something there, something did not get deleted.
 
 
 

In X series go to Track View - Options - Stop at Project End. There must be a similar setting in previous versions.
 
From link above:
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/1978814
 
Steve