record automation after ACT learn

There's a minor bug related to soft-synths and the write enable button (but is unconfirmed by CW) in which the soft-synth write enable shows red when you click write enable on the midi track, but automation is not recorded.
 
I think you will find if you open the soft synth, disable write enable and re-enable it (W in top right hand corner on the Soft-Synth) that the automation will now write.

gswitz
There's a minor bug related to soft-synths and the write enable button (but is unconfirmed by CW) in which the soft-synth write enable shows red when you click write enable on the midi track, but automation is not recorded.
 
I think you will find if you open the soft synth, disable write enable and re-enable it (W in top right hand corner on the Soft-Synth) that the automation will now write.

Could not reproduce this in X3D, I'm guessing it is fixed.

fcarosone
I had enabled W in the channel strip, they are not linked.

I believe regular FX ARE linked by default. By this I mean that if you add a VST to an Audio track and write enable the audio track it will write enable the VST as well.
 
Midi/Soft-Synths are different. If you Write Enable a Midi track it DOES NOT Write Enable the Soft-Synth that the Midi Track outputs to. This behavior is the same for Simple Instrument Tracks. You have to explicitly Enable Write on the Soft-Synth.
 
I believe that the goofy behavior I describe with TH2 may be related to the fact that you CAN specify TH2 to work as a Soft-Synth and set the midi output from a midi track to be input into TH2 so that you can automate TH2 that way. The problem is that the W for write enable gets changed to red on the TH2 in some cases where write is NOT actually enabled. That's really the bug.
 
So Sonar marks the W Red because it's a VST plug, but then doesn't actually write enable TH2. This makes TH2 a special case, a bit like dropping a Soft-Synth into the FX bin of an audio track and using the Synth as an effect on the track. So, perhaps if you drop Pentagon onto an Audio Track to use it as a Vocoder, you would get the same behavior.
 
Also, it may have to be on a cold start. And I was using the full version of TH2, not the Sonar Version.
 
This is not the same for other FX. For example, if you add a regular VST to an audio track and write enable the audio track, it will create the related envelope when you twiddle a pot.
 
 
 
 

Not sure, Alex.
 
If you watch the end of this video you can see it happening when I demonstrate the use of the Wah pedal. You can see that both the track and TH2 have the red Write Enable marked. You can see the smart control moving with the A for write automation lighted blue. You can see the track in the background where no automation is being written.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1RvsICh0Y
The video itself is what put me on to it because I went to check the automation lane and it wasn't there.
 
I've seen it happen both using ACT to control the parameter and skipping ACT and twiddling the nob with the mouse. Again, I got it to happen earlier today in X3d.
 
I don't know if there's some secret clicking required that only I do and you don't. Maybe. Whatever it is, the issue shows up for me. I was also able to walk the person at Cakewalk support through the issue and he confirmed it was a problem for him too.
 
Now, this problem counts below the 64 bit engine as totally inconsequential. There's an easy work around, and anyone debugging it would resolve it in a second by unchecking and re-checking the W. It's really not worth more time imho.
 
Merry Christmas, Alex. Presents are wrapped and under the tree and I'm off to bed.
 
Peace to the world!