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Any idea how I can stop Cakewalk from extending tracks that I have purposely cut to a certain length? I have some MIDI songs that are longer than they should be. I set the Now marker to where I want it to end. I select all tracks, press S to split, then delete the extra ends off the tracks. Certain files, when I then reload them, have one or more of the tracks extended. See screenshots. They should all be ending at the same time, but they are not. I've edited 10 songs. Four worked perfectly, the other 6 show some signs of extension. It's not really an issue on the first 5, but the last one is getting an extra 5 seconds added back on to the track, and no matter what I have tried, I can't seem to get it to go away. I have "split notes" enabled. I've tried saving, and then re-splitting, and re-deleting the extra at the end, yet it keeps coming back.

So it seems it not really a "problem", just an unanticipated result. I gave the file a good listen, and the audio integrity seems to remain intact, ie no misplaced notes, no sounds that behave improperly as far as I can tell.

I am new to Cakewalk. I am using it for two features: removing some measures from the end of my MIDI files, and adding a 10 second fade out. The first file I've tried it on, which is one of my eventually hundreds of MIDI files in my project, I am able to remove the extra measures, I am able to fade the song as desired. Everything appears normal. I go to File -> Save As, and the resulting MIDI file all of the starts of the tracks are misaligned, with some starting as they should at the beginning, while others are delayed up to 4 seconds. See the attached before and after screenshots. Any idea what might be causing this, and how I can correct it? The original file is created with a game music converter, and then edited with several other utilities along the way, before arriving at this point. No offset issues exist until it is edited with Cakewalk. I cut the end of the song by making a selection using the selection tool, then Ctrl-X. The "Split Notes" option is turned on. Saved, everything appears normal. I add the fade by selecting the last 10 seconds, and the go to Insert -> Series Of Controllers -> 11 Expression, start = 127, end = 0. Everything looks normal pre-save. Then I save, and in Cakewalk it still looks normal, but if I close and reopen, the offsets become visible.