Rebuild Layers: The Weirdest Bug Ever

I had a strange thing come up today.  Was working on two vocal tracks when all of a sudden one of them stopped playing.  No mute, no clip mute, and it was routed to the same buss as everything else and everything else was playing.  I tried routing to other outputs, no love.  I tried solo, nothing.  Mute/unmute, nothing.  I was able to play the clips outside of Sonar so the audio was definitely in place.  When I tried to bounce the clips to a new clip, the end result was total silence.

Finally, I copied the clips to a new track with Ctrl-Shift drag and the clips played fine on the new track.

I have since found out that doing a Track | Layers | Rebuild Layers makes that track play again.  What does layers have to do with muting the entire track?  Anyone else seen this one?  I had been doing a lot of clip muting (during comping) on another track just before this one went DOA, and the last thing I remember doing before the track went silent was that I changed the track name.  Not sure it's related.  But the fact the Rebuild Layers made the track start playing again really makes me wonder...?

kgarello


I have found layers to be extremely buggy since moving to 8.5x
 
I have rebuilt layers then had them magically reappear (there is something subliminal in that word).  It was very troublesome one night while trying to edit multiple drum takes - Each time I tried to slide a group of clips over the timeline, the layers would pop back up. 
 
 I basically gave up because the customer was standing over my shoulder.  I haven't attempted it since moving to win7x64 so I don't know if it was an install problem.
 
 
 
 

There are definitely some layer bugs.  I stumble into them often.   However, when you mentioned sliding some clips over, that is one that I've hit TOO many times.   Another interesting one is when you click on the track # in the track header and select the entire track, then do something like quantize it - all of a sudden some layers you thought were gone, or had slip edited - well, say hello dolly 
 
Some of these bugs have been around a long time, btw.  They're not new to me, at least.
 
And, rebuilding layers doesn't always rebuild.
 

 

Thanks for confirming that I'm not alone with this issue. I've reported it as a bug and we'll see what happens from here.

BlindDog


CW support speaks:

"Thank you for your report. This is most likely a system-specific or configuration issue and not a defect with your Cakewalk program."

So they're telling me that issue with Rebuild Layers really isn't happening? what the...?  Did they even open the sample I sent?

That is weird - because this bug is EASILY reproduced on any system!
 
 

I was recording some midi stuff over the weekend. When I tried deleting notes in the piano roll view, they kept reappearing. Back in track view, set to show layers, I found up to 6 layers all with the same notes.

Very weird.

I notice some irregularities with midi lately more so then before. Gets really annoying..

 
Just curious - what irregularities do you speak of?
 
 

Ba _Midi Thanks again for the tip about Alt hold while in media Browser, to get the loops to play in time.. and Yes  Sonar 9 needs a toggle switch for it, My finger was getting a cramp today.  I really thought loop explore had a built in feature, Maybe it was the loops I was using possably Elasticish loops of some sort .

djjhart@aol.com


Ba _Midi Thanks again for the tip about Alt hold while in media Browser, to get the loops to play in time.. and Yes  Sonar 9 needs a toggle switch for it, My finger was getting a cramp today.  I really thought loop explore had a built in feature, Maybe it was the loops I was using possably Elasticish loops of some sort .

You're very welcome.