TK Major

Having been with Cakewalk since the mid-90s, buying all the updates until X1 and 2, but including X3, I have to say that the phrase "UI refresh" strikes dread into my heart. I will certainly buy they're refresh if it is a reasonable price in keeping with established norms, but, again, the phrase strikes dread in my heart. Some of those Gibson updates were extremely frustrating for established users.

I'm extremely disappointed by the decision to drop the Key+ control from the track controls panel. (Not sure what version change did that. At the tail end of the dreadful Gibson era, I found the jump from 8.6 to X3 to be a waste of time and money -- sadly, after I did it -- so, I stuck to 8.6 and then I essentially moved from 8.6 to CWBL.) The Key+ feature made raising/lowering pitch of a MIDI track far quicker and more straightforward than the multi-step transpose function. Sure, if you have a whole bunch of tracks, it makes sense to perform a grouped operation. But if you simply have an already-tracked MIDI track you'd like to experiment and find a good key for, whoever removed the Key+ control made it a BIG PAIN IN THE BACKSIDE.

User 905133! You're the best! Your first suggestion got me over the hump. I figured it was something 'easy' -- but there've been a lot of changes to absorb [I jumped from 8.6 to X3] and I kept stabbing around looking for something. Who'd a thunk a simple right-click would have got me there! ? I'll see if I can document more about the situation and post it here if appropriate. Also, many thanks to Ben for passing this issue along! ADDENDUM: After saving the named workspace after expanding the control bar, the project opened back up as expected/desired. Previously, though, I had noticed that the problem seemed to be one of the 'desktop' area having 'crept up' to cover the bottom of the control bar. (IOW, it appeared the 'desktop' had a higher Z-index level than the control bar in the display stack and was partially obscuring it.)

This appears to be something I did to myself but can't figure out how to fix: I saved a workspace view and when I reopen it, the lower half of the top toolbar/control strip is partially covered now when the work area is docked... No doubt I've done something stupid but...