stevec
I think the real moral of the story here is that we should think twice about cloning.
 
 
 
 
I'll get my coat on the way out....   
 

This made me literally laugh out loud. 
 
Well played, sir. Well played.
 
Dean

stevec
I think the real moral of the story here is that we should think twice about cloning.
 
 
 
 
I'll get my coat on the way out....   
 

 
Just look what happened to Dolly..

In response to this thread, I took TWENTY SECONDS to look it up in the manual, where it stated its intended behaviour.
 
Well I must have been having an off day yesterday because I was scouring the manual for Simple Instrument Tracks, Instrument Tracks, Clone, Clone tracks etc and even did some google searches with those terms and couldn't find anything relating to this. Granted I should have just referenced the page number you posted but for some reason I was on my own mission and didn't. As I said I do remember that entry and if I'm not mistaken it is part of the getting started tuts (again I still haven't looked because I already understand the "issue" now). Still it did not come up in all my scouring of indexes and the like so probably not quite as accessible for most.
 
Just saying it isn't really that surprising that this could elude some of us and really it seemed like an entirely different problem to begin with. I was approaching it from the angle that somehow the Linked Clips option had been set or a Control Group or whatever else was gumming up the works and was mistaken.
 
Seems we've all learned something here. Ain't nothin' wrong with that.
 
Cheers.

Beepster
In response to this thread, I took TWENTY SECONDS to look it up in the manual, where it stated its intended behaviour.
 
Well I must have been having an off day yesterday because I was scouring the manual for Simple Instrument Tracks, Instrument Tracks, Clone, Clone tracks etc and even did some google searches with those terms and couldn't find anything relating to this. Granted I should have just referenced the page number you posted but for some reason I was on my own mission and didn't. As I said I do remember that entry and if I'm not mistaken it is part of the getting started tuts (again I still haven't looked because I already understand the "issue" now). Still it did not come up in all my scouring of indexes and the like so probably not quite as accessible for most.
 
Just saying it isn't really that surprising that this could elude some of us and really it seemed like an entirely different problem to begin with. I was approaching it from the angle that somehow the Linked Clips option had been set or a Control Group or whatever else was gumming up the works and was mistaken.
 
Seems we've all learned something here. Ain't nothin' wrong with that.
 
Cheers.

I just skimmed through the table of contents at the beginning until I saw "Copy Tracks".
 
 I often find the Contents can often give one a broader search than the Index.
 
 
It's in the chapter called "Arranging and editing", just after the tutorials.

Razorwit

stevec
I think the real moral of the story here is that we should think twice about cloning.
 
 
 
I'll get my coat on the way out....   
 

This made me literally laugh out loud. 
 
Well played, sir. Well played.
 
Dean

Glad I could help.   
 
BTW, jb101...     Dolly says hi.   Dolly says hi.
 

I guess the lesson I've learned is "consult the manual instead of the online documentation, because that's likely to be incomplete (except when the manual is incomplete, in which case consult the online help)."

I know what you're saying, Sharke, it's frustrating.

I frequently find myself consulting the Reference Guide and Scott's book. I have the PDF on my computer, my kindle and now my iPad (I downloaded it to my iPad yesterday to look this thread's issue up). In quiet moments (infrequent) I flick through it.

There are mistakes in it, but not as many as I have seen reported by some.

Of course, one of the best resources I've found is this forum. I learn stuff on here daily.

So why would you want a fully linked clone anyway? And has anyone figured out a fast way to make an independent copy of an SIT?

I've had this experience as well, and wasn't sure why the controls were linked.  The workaround I have used it to insert another instance of the soft synth as a SIT, then shift-ctrl drag the midi clip to the new track to create a copy.  This way the 2 instances are independent.  You can also ctrl-drag anything in the effect bin as well to copy them.

Are the original and clone sharing the same MIDI channel?  If so, maybe having different MIDI channels would unlink them.