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Since I started paying attention to this, I've noticed audio from different instruments fading in and out, but only happens after I touch one of the track or VST controls. It will continue until I stop the playback and start again. As long as I don't touch anything, it plays fine.

I have run into an issue and felt I needed to report it. The issue has only started since I did the EA update and has never happened before (that I remember). The problem is when I adjust a parameter while playing, (so far, track pan & send) an instrument (or sometimes more) will drop out. It will stay out until I restart the song (song position doesn't seem to matter). I don't have to be adjusting the track that drops out, it can be any track. It's ALWAYS my drums (Superior Drummer 2) that drops out and sometimes other instruments as well. As I said, I've never had this to happen before. I usually have several audio tracks as well as VSTi tracks, all with various plugins. Basically a backup band with multiple recorded guitars & vocals. I'm a looong time CW user (since DOS version) and know CW well. Nothing has changed on my system in several months, so it wasn't a Windows update or anything (updates are locked). I'm running: MS Windows 10 Pro ASRock MB w/American Megatrends BIOS AMD FX-6300 3500 Mhz (3cores, 6 Processes) 8 Gig memory (yeah, I need more) MOTU 24i Audio interface (latest drivers)

I run a small home studio and record demos and CDs for local bands and I regularly do drum replacement on my multitrack audio. I usually MIDI map the entire song manually by referencing the drum track(s) and using the "Set measure/beat at now" feature at quarter note intervals giving a good representation of the tempo of the live recording. This allows me to [manually] input the MIDI notes to coincide with the audio drum parts. Yes, I know there are "automated" ways to do this, but I have my own reasons for doing it manually. Occasionally, in inputting the MIDI notes, I find a tempo marking that was marked wrong or missed. That's where my problem starts. I know that after the MIDI has been input, that changing the tempo map can affect the position of the MIDI notes (sometimes leading to disaster as you will see), so I'm cautious of doing this at all. If it happens, I usually "Cut" my MIDI to the clipboard (without copying tempo) and make the tempo changes, then paste the MIDI back in, in which it will now follow the new tempo map. If I don't "remove" the MIDI, this is when the disaster occurs. My recent example: I was mapping a rather long, complex song using the method described above and as I was reaching the end of the song while inputting the final measures of MIDI notes, I noticed a tempo mark that was out of place which would throw the remaining MIDI off beat. Having been working on this song for a few days (MIDI mapping, setting up the drum sounds, inputting MIDI, etc), I was eager to finish as I was on the last 4 or 5 measures or some 100+ measures of complex drum parts. I figured since I hadn't input any MIDI notes PAST the bad tempo mark, that it would be safe to change the tempo mark without cutting the MIDI first. I first deleted all tempo marks from the bad mark until the end (about 4 or 5 measures), then remarked the tempo (per quarter note) to the remainder of the song. I then proceeded to finish the MIDI input out to the end of the song. I then did a playback check to see how it all sounded when I discovered that the last actions had caused the original MIDI notes (before the tempo change) to be copied into several clips (19 clips), in layers from random parts of the song which were all in the wrong locations. All of which were overlapping each other and many clips randomly jumping to later parts/measures as if they were in order (if that makes any sense). I immediately copied the entire MIDI track to another file (for safety) and used the "undo" function to go all the way back to the point before I changed the tempo (I have "undo" set for "unlimited"). Though "most" of the rogue clips disappeared, what remained was about 4 clips (was originally one long clip) which were all in the wrong place and some were missing. Some could be expanded (length dragged) to reveal this missing parts, but again, everything was wrong. In my opinion, the "undo" should have restored it to it's previous state, but actually made it worse. It will now take hours to sort through the remaining clips to place each section where it belongs and delete any repeated sections. This is not a new issue. It has happened many times before and is the very reason I had started "cutting" the MIDI to the clipboard before doing such tempo changes. The issue goes back as far as I can remember (long time Cakewalk user). I'm not sure if this is a bug or some simple setting I need to fix, but I just lost many hours of work in just one tempo change and no, I didn't have "auto save" or "auto backup" turned on (for personal reasons), so my only save is many edits old, but may help me save most of the file. Does anyone have a solution or know the reason this is happening? It has "bugged" me for many years. Thanks, Bill P.

Thanks, this is what I needed to know. 🙂 B.P.

I will try this. I assumed it mirrored the setting in my "Now Time" display in which I have set to M:B:T (measure:beat:ticks), and my methods worked up until Platinum. That's when I noticed the difference. I do admit, I didn't do near as much beat mapping then as I do now. I do a LOT of drum replacement stuff for clients now and have to map the audio drums into MIDI (yes I know about the "Drum Replacement", but it sometimes doesn't work well with fast passages or intricate stick work) I tried your suggestion and it seemed to work, so I assume a "Measure" is divided into the number of "Beats" per "Measure" (4/4, 3/4, 7/8, etc) and "Beat" is divided as "000-999" instead of "Ticks per Beat", correct? Or is something like "7/8" treated differently? Thanks B.P.

Usually, if I'm working to beat map audio, I have snapping turned off since I need to divide audio at sample level.

I use the "Project - Set Measure/Beat at Now" feature to manually MIDI/Tempo map audio files. In the past I got accurate results in note division (i.e. 8th, 16th, etc). I'm pretty sure the problem started before Platinum, but not sure exactly when, but when you set the beat (using "Set Measure/Beat at Now") within an audio file to any division smaller than a quarter note, the resulting value is incorrect. For example, if I place the cursor on the 2nd 8th note beat in an audio clip and set it to 1:01:480, once the operation done, the cursor is at 1:01:460 (as is the time stamp). This is at 4/4 time sigs... it gets worse with others. The smaller the division, the larger the discrepancy from what the value should be. This feature was accurate in older versions of Sonar.