Hi all
Well, I discovered (by accident), that some of my drum parts that had been copied and pasted ended up in T2. So I dragged and dropped the parts from T2 into T1, allowing the data to be merged. It plays back fine, but I'm unable to lasso all of the midi notes in PRV. Have not been able to figure out how to lasso all of them, even when T1 and T2 are active. I'm sure it's something simple, but I've searched the manual and the forum without much luck.
 
Thanks,
Valenti

That doesn't sound normal to me, so I suggest creating a new lane (T3) and move all clips from T1 to T3 and see if you can lasso all notes (if it works, then just delete T1&T2). If it still doesn't work, I'd create a new MIDI track and move the clips there and run the same test. Take Lanes' behavior in MIDI is weird so I'm not surprised to see this type of issue.  

Are you running X3D?

bounce to clips. then lasso

Yep, that's the best way if he doesn't need to have the clips separated (I normally have clips separated because I use lots of linked clips).

Valenti56
So I dragged and dropped the parts from T2 into T1, allowing the data to be merged.

That shouldn't have been possible in X3. You can no long have clips layered in the same lane. Even if you have drag and drop mode set to Blend, SONAR will eliminate any clip overlap by slip-editing the existing clip out of the way of the one you drop. If the clip you drop is the same size or longer, the existing clip may get slip-edited into oblivion, only recoverable by undo (I've reported this as highly unintuitive and undesirable behavior).
 
So until you account for that, the rest of the scenario doesn't make much sense.
 
Or maybe I'm misunderstanding, and the clips were not in the same time range...?
 
 
 
 

Hi all
Interestingly, the problem fixed itself. I closed Sonar, re-launched, highlighted the tracks, and it worked just fine. Probably should have followed the first rule of Windows computing ("If something is acting strange, close and reboot.")
 
Appreciate all the info however. FWIW, I'm going to pay more attention to where copied and pasted notes and clips are going. I can see where track lanes have some advantages, but also some inherent complexities.
 
Valenti