Today I was trying to enter Guitar-Chord-Charts into a song in Sonar X2a-PE. What happens is that in the Chord-Grid-Feature and the Chord-Properties-Dialog-Box there is all kinds unusual behavior.

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FIRST, the Chord-Grid has the Name of the Chord overlaid on the Grid itself usually in a huge font at a strange angle. Sometimes when you press the 'Play'-Option the broken obscuring overlay disappears.

SECOND, the Chords with 'B' as a root seem to get tangled up with the Chords which have 'Bb' as a root. You try to enter a B-maj7 and wind up with a Bb-maj7. This does not seem to happen in other roots.

THIRD, there seems to be no way to save new Fretboard-Chord-Fingerings although the Manual explains the process to some extent. It is obviously supposed to be functional. When I press 'Save', there is no update of the new Fretboard-Chord-Fingering.[Today this seems to be working]

FOURTH,sometimes the Chord-Charts will Paste at the 1/8 Note time interval and sometimes Chord-Charts will not paste at the 1/8 Note, but only at the 1/4 Note interval. This seems to have nothing at all to do with the Snap-Settings. I have found a workaround for this.

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These are the Bugs I experience; I wonder if others in SonarLand also see this same malfunction. I sadly recognize that probably almost no one uses this feature. What is missing, obviously, is that there is no way to Cut and Paste large sections of Chord-Charts to different sections of different Tracks or to have a palate of recently entered Chords handy.

Folks, let me know if you have any ideas about this and if you have the same experience, that way I will know if it is just my computer and Sonar having a spat or this is a broken feature.

By the way, mostly SonarX2a-PE works well on my platform.

If it matters, my platform:

Toshiba-X775-Quosmio Laptop

SonarX2a-PE

Roland-OctaCapture

Windows 7 HP (64-bit).

I use the chords and staff view all the time,  but not the Geetar Chord thingy.  I'm not sure I can help you,  but what makes things work better for me is to make the Chord Font bigger by right-clicking on "layout".   And enlarge everything with the magnifier.

Also you lasso a chord (F6) and slide it by ticks.  So if you have 960 TPB you cans slide a chord 480 ticks for an eighth note.
I do copy and paste chords often with success.  Make sure the "Chords" tab is pushed  and cords are highlighted,  lasso them (F6) copy and paste.
  
Not sure I'm helping.  Definetly lots of buggy things. 
 
The bakers have not spent much time here the last decade or so.      

Thank you Jimbo88, I did not know that it was possible to lasso just the Chord Symbol Charts then do Copy/Paste maneuvers. This speeds things up hugely.

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What I was hoping someone would do for me is just to try using the Chord-Properties-Dialog-Box.

To do this go to Staff-View (Naturally this has to be a MIDI-Track) and click the 'Chords' Button. Then, with the Smart-Tool, just click anywhere above the Staff, in the Highlighted Area (Non-Grey). A tiny 'C' will be placed there. This is NOT a Chord-Symbol, but just a Chord-Name. You must next double-click that 'C' and the Chord-Properties-Dialog-Box will appear. If you have already been typing in Chord-Symbols, Sonar will instead enter the previously pasted, altered or double-clicked Chord-Symbol, you will NOT see the 'C'. If this happens, then just double-click the newly appeared Chord-Symbol.

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I would just like to know if the distorted font in the Chord-Properties-Dialog-Box is just my computer messing with Sonar or it is what others see too.

cswami : "FIRST, the Chord-Grid has the Name of the Chord overlaid on the Grid itself usually in a huge font at a strange angle."

Yup, does it here as well. A mess.

"Sometimes when you press the 'Play'-Option the broken obscuring overlay disappears."

I couldn't get that to happen.

"SECOND, the Chords with 'B' as a root seem to get tangled up with the Chords which have 'Bb' as a root. You try to enter a B-maj7 and wind up with a Bb-maj7. This does not seem to happen in other roots."

The B chords seem to behave properly here. Selecting Bmaj7 gave me a Bmaj7. I didn't try many.

Thanks PaulP, I have continued using the Staff-View Chord-Symbols. They are glitchy but nonetheless worth it.

Thank you for your time.

Thanks - for posting this.  I have the same problem (messed up chord box)  What a mess - hopefully a fix soon?  How can they not spot this?
 
Win7 x64
Sonar X2a