How in the h*ll do you get a cell to start from the beginning immediately while the transport is running????? I've tried every setting I can think of, and all it wants to do is follow the transport. With or without the follow transport button. This is with audio clips. I'm trying to play a background and then at the appropriate time trigger another sound on top of it. But I can't get the sound to trigger from the beginning.It always starts at some random point in the file if the transport is running. It works perfect if the transport isn't running. But that defeats the purpose. Any Matrix experts out there????

Change the trigger mode to immediate. You can right click on a cell and select the resolution from there if you don't want that globally

Yeah did that. Doesn't work for me.

TBH there are many options in the matrix so it depends what you want. Immediate trigger will play the cell as soon as it is clicked but if you want it to start from the beginning again when you click on it if it's already playing then you need to turn retrigger on.

It's acting as if the "follow transport" button has no bearing on anything. As if it's just always on. Drop an audio file on a track. Open the matrix view add another audio file to the matrix. Play the track and then attempt to play the matrix. No matter what setting I put it on the matrix won't start from the beginning if you have the regular track playing.

Is the "Cell Start" button lit or off?

Not sure which button you're referring to. There is the button with the arrow and the circle that shows the progress. When I click on it, it lights up and shows the progress (which is not starting at the beginning). When I play the regular track if I don't click on it, it stays dark. It's obvious to me that the audio clip in the matrix is following the regular track. If I click on the matrix one second into the regular track, it plays the matrix audio clip one second from it's beginning. And I just read the help file and yes the clip start button is engaged.

the button with the arrow when disabled (grayed out) will restart clips from the beginning.  are you getting midi triggering problems like this??? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlytbD4hT0M

Let me clear some of this confusion(or add to it), if a Clip already resides in the track and you press play it doesn't do any thing but play whats on the track and not the clip in Matrix right i.e it doesn't restart the clip in Matrix.

That is the way it works it will not jump back on the timeline only move forward and play what is on the track and overrides the Matrix. You need to make sure the cell the matrix clip is using is on an empty track.

What you need to do is to start with an empty project load all of your cells and record that performance. Once you've done that you can't go back and change that performance dynamically, you have to start a new project or record over the one you just did or add a new track corresponding to the Matrix cell you are trying to trigger..

It's a one shot performance tool(using the "Record Performance" button in the Matrix), if you want to change anything after a performance you have to start over or do another project once the performance is recorded to the timeline.

You can't mix and match it's either all in the Matrix or the recorded performance plus added tracks later or a new empty track corresponding to the Matrix cell. Once a track is recorded you cannot change it dynamically with out recording over your previous performance.

I hope that help's to explain the Matrix system enough to understand how you can use this tool.

you can have multiple clips going to a single audio track as long as the gain staging is ok.  clips don't even ever have to have been in the track view. you can drag them right into cells via windows explorer or the sonar browser. i add layers with clips quite often.  i also used sonar x1 matrix with midi clips as intros and outros and fills because i was triggering about a dozen different synths.  all the matrix cells played absolutely fine, they did not just play what was on the midi track.  even in the x1 videos about matrix view this is shown to be the norm.  matrix in x2 is quite broken.