I've never had this issue on regular closing (Platinum) but I have seen it when it decides to crash for some reason and even using task manager to end the process will also be ineffective. Although I do use 32 bit plug-ins in 64 it also happened in 32 bit Platinum, more often if anything, so I guessed at an audio issue. More often than not for me opening another audio program like Audacity will clear it, but there have also been times where only a reboot will do it. On more than one occasion I've had the situation where even the shutdown/restart would hang and I've had to force it. I've always just put it down to one of those computer things that you just learn to live with like when windows tells you that it's going to do something that you really don't want it to do and your only option is to agree that its OK.☹️
Just a heads up to anyone tempted by this and unaware that Melodyne 4.2 version is problematic in Sonar/Cakewalk. Ask Celemony to provide a 4.1 installer and then it seems fine. To be fair to them they were very quick to respond in my case. There has been another recent update to 4.2 but AFAIK people who installed that still had the algorithm issue.
You can just direct the midi tracks output to the soft synth question, but as to whether it's quicker than a copy/paste to an instrument track, I'm not sure.
Personally though if the midi is going to end up driving a soft synth I prefer to record it using that soft synth as things like velocity, note length, modulation etc will sound different.
Thanks for replying. I do split the notes up too, I just figured that once spilt, moved and rendered that they would stay where they were. As you say the sound is ok, just the display looks off.
If I live to be 100 it still won't feel right to call them blobs. 😊
A long overdue section IMO. Good to see.
I guess that "Instruments & Effects" could be the new Software section if people choose to use it that way.
I suspect that Hardware and Techniques were dropped because of relatively low traffic, but Techniques was often interesting to read even if you had nothing to add to the discussion and was also generally far more civil and drama free than the main forum. Even though I rarely visited the hardware section I think it's important to have as not all problems are to do with software and where else is anyone supposed to ask those questions?