Sonar 7 Studio here. Same issue. Muting lost when getting rid of unused layers in a track. I lost some muting doing something else in that track too but don't know what it was. I just realized at some later point that some muting was missing.

One thing I'd like to see are LARGER M & S buttons to the left!!!! Those are hard to hit with my mouse when eye fatigue is setting in.

I definitely agree with that. And also if you are slighly off, you end up hitting the divider line instead and the left panel jumps out to there instead of hitting the mutes.

As a work around, I wanted to change the colors of the Solo/mute buttons in the track layers, but I don't think you can. They are that pale yellow and green color, kinda hard to see for me.

Yeah..when you hit the "rebuild layers", that layer on the bottom can sometimes jump ship to the top!.. . Bummer when you have clip envelopes like pan happening, and it gets all confusing then. I'll have to check out the "delete layers". That sounds like the plan.

I do a lot of loop recording. Basically because my guitar playing is about 1/10th of my bass playing and drumming. So I end up with lots of layered takes all the time. I used to have lots of issues all the time like mentioned above.
One tactic I evolved was not to take my self so seriously. Really, what posterity am I saving all these extra track layers for?
I delete everything I am sure is garbage. Then I go back in and color code the remaining tracks. Dark colors for passable, brighter colors for really good. Loud colors like pink and orange for red herrings that are interesting.
One thing thats cool is that as long as you still have a fraction of a layer you can easily stretch to get all the rest of the layer back. Heck I think Sonar save all the audio in the audio folder no matter how you edit.

I do wish they would make selecting colors easier. When I am digging thru dozens of tracks its the only thing that keeps me sane.

<< I do wish they would make selecting colors was easier. >>

yes.

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Fast forward nine months
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Hey guys!

Revived this thread so I don't have to re-explain the issue (check my OP).

Can anyone confirm whether or not this has been fixed in SONAR 8?

If not, I don't think there's enough to compell me to take the upgrade.

Sven

Great question, Sven, I'll give it a try as soon as I can get in front of my DAW. (Unless someone beats me to it.)

It would be so nice if that annoying behavior was gone.......


Thanks for the reminder.

John

ORIGINAL: SvenArne

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Fast forward nine months
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Hey guys!

Revived this thread so I don't have to re-explain the issue (check my OP).

Can anyone confirm that this has been fixed in SONAR 8?

If not, I don't think there's enough to compell me to take the upgrade.

Sven

I really want an answer to this so I'm bumping with nothing else to say than:

Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell!

I use the mute tool for comping all the time, and it doesn't seem to get me in much trouble,
I remember I used 'rebuild layers' several times comping a guitar track last week without causing a problem,
so I had a play with Sonar 8.0.1 to see if I could make it do what you described above.

I was not able to cause any problem by moving clips between layers, or using 'rebuild layers' 'show layers' or 'remove empty layers'

I was able to cause the problem where you loose comp info by deleting a layer, but I noticed that that only occurs when the layer you delete overlaps other layers that have been comped, so it is possible to work around by dragging or slipping the layer you want to delete until it doesn't overlap anything.
Less than ideal I agree, but not unusable...

ORIGINAL: Dave Allison

I use the mute tool for comping all the time, and it doesn't seem to get me in much trouble,
I remember I used 'rebuild layers' several times comping a guitar track last week without causing a problem,
so I had a play with Sonar 8.0.1 to see if I could make it do what you described above.

I was not able to cause any problem by moving clips between layers, or using 'rebuild layers' 'show layers' or 'remove empty layers'

I was able to cause the problem where you loose comp info by deleting a layer, but I noticed that that only occurs when the layer you delete overlaps other layers that have been comped, so it is possible to work around by dragging or slipping the layer you want to delete until it doesn't overlap anything.
Less than ideal I agree, but not unusable...

Thanks for your answer. By your post it sounds like its getting better, but I still recognize behavior that should've been corrected.

Anyone else got some feedback on this?

Sven