So, I select 16 bars, all tracks. Do cut special, delete hole.  Hole is not deleted. Same thing with delete special.  Tried the same thing in X2.  Works perfectly. Ideas?

Clint Swank
So, I select 16 bars, all tracks. Do cut special, delete hole.  Hole is not deleted. Same thing with delete special.  Tried the same thing in X2.  Works perfectly. Ideas?

Yeah, I can confirm.  I recall this happening in an earlier version.  It turned out that you had to have the cursor in the right place for the delete hole function to work.  Click on the time line so that the Now Time is prior to the selection for cut.  Now try the cut special and it should work.
 
Kind regards,
 
Living Room Rocker

 
Not working here either.
 
Neither is your method Living Room Rocker, sad to say. Wherever I put the Now Time, the selection disappears but the hole remains.
 
 
 
 

Tried.  Failed.  Same thing does not seem to happen in all projects.  I did this in the Cakewalk mixing demo and it worked normally.  Also tried in another project and it worked on audio but not Midi.  Strange.

I seem to remember there has to be something in the selected area to give you the cut option??

It seems to be working here.  Only tried on one project, and it worked as expected.

Called tech support.  Seems to be a problem with Midi tracks only.  Not fixed yet, definitely an issue.
 

confirmed...same issue.  Seems to have something to do with midi clips and notes hanging over the cut area.
 
So I "Cut" without deleting the whole then "Slide" things over.  This is not causing me trouble now, but when I get my next scoring gig and there are lots of changes......just sayin'
 
 
  

Sonar has always had issues with 'orphaned' or 'over-hanging' notes.  It never asks you what you want to do about them and often gets itself into a pickle over them.

OK.  I tried a bunch of things, and stuff got even more screwed up.  There's a serious problem with all cut and paste functions with midi tracks.  Disappearing clips.  Clips cut but not pasted.
All kinds of weird.  So I opened the same tracks in X2.  Completely normal.  Fix please.