Hi,
I am having some problems with X2a that I already reported to support and want to see if anyone else is experiencing similar issues. At the bottom will be my systems configuration.
 
The now time marker is randomly disappearing on me and the only way it will come back is if I close and reopen the project. It disappears at random and I cannot recreate it. When I called support they told me it was a known issue they were working on and if I double clicked the border between the track view and the inspector view it should return - but it doesn't. In fact, once the now time marker disappears, hovering the mouse over the border between the track and inspector views no longer displays the double sided arrow. Not completely sure if this is a known issue or not because the second time I called the person wasn't aware of this "fix". This issue is killing me.
 
Another strange issue I am having is when in the PRV. If I move the mouse across the PRV, with aim assist tracking along with the mouse, the display of each of the MIDI notes get corrupted as the aim assist bar passes over them. This does not happen if aim assist is turned off. This issue is more of an annoyance and doesn't interrupt workflow.
 
General and display settings have been validated by support and I have the latest video driver for my card installed which was released last month. System does not have any other display issues that I have run into.
 
Thanks for any comments or assistance,
 
Rick
 
Sonar X2a Producer with many 3rd party VST plugins
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit SP1 with latest updates
Intel i7 2600k 3.4GHz
16GB RAM
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-3
MSI Cyclone R6850 1GB GDDR5 (HD 6850 chipset)
NI Komplete Audio 6 USB Audio Interface
 
 
 
 

Hey Rick,

I've had the disappearing now time marker too but it hasnt happened to me since the X2a update (touch wood!) I guess the fact that support know about it is good news as one would expect a fix is being looked at. As for your prv display issue I havent seen that on any of my projects yet.

Thanks Millzy hopefully this can be sorted out soon I've done just about everything but swap out hardware. I don't know if this would have happened on X2 since I went directly from 8.5.3 to X2a. I opened X2 for a moment to look at it after the install but applied X2a soon after without opening any projects.
 
Glad to hear X2a resolved the disappearing now time marker for you. Fortunately I have other DAW systems I can continue working with - I've learned to be prepared ;)

A bump before this gets sucked into the black hole - any recommendations for resolving the occassionaly gone missing Now Time Marker, and PRV display weirdness? I have a ticket opened with Cakewalk but they haven't been able to provide any solutions. I built this PC for Sonar, and don't see any components that should be that unique or cheap enough to contribute to this. I have all the latest drivers installed for everything, and tried previous drivers. X2a is the only app i have that is experiencing these weird display issues.

Thank you

Sonar X2a Producer with many 3rd party VST plugins
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit SP1 with latest updates
Intel i7 2600k 3.4GHz
16GB RAM
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-3
MSI Cyclone R6850 1GB GDDR5 (HD 6850 chipset)
3xSATA3 (OS, Samples, Projects)
NI Komplete Audio 6 USB Audio Interface

You're not alone with display issues. I have the opposite problem, when I scrub I get hundreds of now time cursors. I'm sure Cakewalk knows about these issues since Sonar does a complete redisplay when you let go of the mouse. That's the easy way to fix display bugs.

There are different ways of moving a cursor around without disturbing what's underneath. Usually you turn it off, move it, turn it back on. Sounds like yours is getting stuck in the off state. And mine aren't being turned off before being moved.

I doubt the problem has anything to do with your graphics card, or you'd be having problems in other programs. Let's look forward to X2b.

This happened to me a couple of days back, Although i was rewiring ableton betax64 and just  a single audio track in from ableton, again i had to close down my project and re-open,like wise I can not duplicae this bug,But just to confirm with you.

This might help http://forum.cakewalk.com/fb.ashx?m=2674399

Not a fix but I find that if you press 'I' twice to close and open the inspector the timeline comes back every time.

When I created this thread I wasn't sure if I should separate the issues (Disappearing Now Time Marker and Display Issues) but decided to keep them together since I think they are related. Others have commented that this could be related to the refresh of the screen and to me that makes some sense.

Hi Paul P - when I disable aim assist, I do not experience any midi note display corruption in the PRV. Does disabling aim assist help you at all? Could you please tell me what video card you are using?

Thanks scook good information to add I hope that it can provide some resolution for others experiencing similar issues

I'll give that a try Shambler! I can't reproduce it but will report on that when/if it happens again.

Thanks for the responses and keeping this on topic.

Rick