strange behaviour in X1b HELP PLEASE. SOLVED

I don't know what happened..I was working on a project with both midi and audio data, and some strange thing happened to my project.
 
1. the time ruler has disappeared each measure only displays the Big Time view M:B:T ex. 3:03:505
 
2. the project plays-back correctly but it goes by fast and erratic in the clips pane, with 2 Now Time cursors going berzerk.
 
3. the data in the midi clips have flat-lined. and the waveforms in the audio clips are now these sine-wavy oscilloscope looking things.
 
I have never encountered this behaviour, if anyone has some insight, it would be greatly appreciated..
 
aleef

rbowser


You have just crossed over into -- The Twilight Zone!

---sorry, Aleef, I have no idea what the deal is there.  It just sounds like a TZ scenario of some sort.  Bizarro video card behavior?--

RB

You have just crossed over into -- The Twilight Zone!

 
thanx for the response RB i was thinking the intro to the OUTER LIMITS.
 

aleef

I don't know what happened..I was working on a project with both midi and audio data, and some strange thing happened to my project.
 
1. the time ruler has disappeared each measure only displays the Big Time view M:B:T ex. 3:03:505

I get the same thing. I just posted a video of it and sent it to Cakewalk in a bug report. Please do the same if you can. The more people who bring it to their attention the better. Jing is a free video capture program you can install if you don't have anything currently. It also provides access to a free file storage site.

2. the project plays-back correctly but it goes by fast and erratic in the clips pane, with 2 Now Time cursors going berzerk.

Try hitting the 'Pause/Break' button on your QWERTY keyboard. It puts Sonar in to CPU Conservation Mode (iirc) and causes your cursor to act funky like that. I've also had this happen without hitting the Pause/Break key. The only way I resolved it was by rebooting my PC. Even shutting down X1 and re-opening it didn't help.

3. the data in the midi clips have flat-lined. and the waveforms in the audio clips are now these sine-wavy oscilloscope looking things.

Never seen this, but it doesn't surprise me. Sounds like a reboot will get you going again.

Call me paranoid, but I've just had this tool bar disappearing thing start happening to me and I've been seeing a few others mention it recently too, but it's been a while since Build 255 has been released. Does anyone think it could be a virus or malware of some kind causing this? It seems to have just started out of the blue ... ??

Bub

Hey thanx Bub..im going to have to really sit down and figure this out. this issue makes it impossible to do edits. i will be filing a bug report tomorrow, cause this could be a case of user error.  I have been meaning to learn how to upload video and screenshots, trying to explain these issues with just text is old hat..