I always hated "magnetism" and kept it off.  Snap or get off the pot!

yorolpal


I always hated "magnetism" and kept it off.  Snap or get off the pot!

same here ;)

thegeek


Sorry Crg - didnt quite get you

"grid follows snap settings" is the feature that allows the GRID in piano roll view to show rulers according to your snap settings

It doesnt change any snap settings - only the visual rulers

Magnetic strength feature in snap settings is another thing. Sorry for the confusion but the OP had two unrelated questions and I answered both!

Hope I made sense this time! ;)

Magnetic strength influences input. Snap to grid influences input. When recording or editing.

Yes but you previously quoted me when I was explaining the "grid follows snap settings"

Now about the features you refer to, which part do you object or do not understand from my post?


edit: and actually you are wrong, neither of the features influence input when recording....this is done by "input quantize"
at least up untill Sonar 8.5

Is there any way to get to the Magnetism setting besides through "P" for the Preferences window?  I thought I got to it from the PRV but I can't figure out how I did it.  I'm guessing I imagined it.

Oh see in 8.5 I always had it on high, but I do see now that having it off makes the snap strength its strongest, especially in X1.

The other night I was doing a lot of hand drawing and editing in a MIDI track and everything (attack times and note durations) would snap to the 1/4 or the 1/16 or the measure or whatever and now I can't get it to do that. I was able to turn the snap grid on and off, but now I can't get it to come on at all except in drawing mode and there I can't get it turn off! I should be able to turn snap on and off in smart, move, edit, draw and even erase modes. What am I doing wrong, and how do I fix it?
 
Thanks,
John
 
Also I can never seem to remember how to find the "start a new post" button. Where do I access that?  :- )
 

 
I should have added I'm using SONAR X1 Studio. (Build 185, if that's relevant)
 

Pretty sure that is an old version. You might want to look to patch to X1d, the last version. It will require patching to X1c then X1d.