Markleford

I know "tilted" or "on tilt" from the poker world, where you're playing with a hot head after a bad beat or frustrating loss and really need to slow it down and think things through. I imagine the term has made its way to other gaming and even beyond.

I took a look at this with fresh eyes, since I've recently "upgraded" from a 12 year old legacy version of this program and am relearning the modern "lay of the land"... I didn't know about this shortcut (in fact, all my old keybindings have changed!) but at the very least make sure: 1) The "Piano Roll" view has your mouse click focus, 2) The Num Lock key is actually engaged (yeah, mine wasn't by default), and 3) the key command is actually Ctrl-Numpad8 or -Numpad2 (don't know if you just mistyped that from memory). So that worked for me, once I figured out those three things: octaves were shifted as expected, no crash. This is from my testing in Version 2021.12 (Build 102, 64 bit). Mind, Bandlab will execute different functionality if the Piano Roll doesn't have focus or Num Lock isn't on, etc. But sure, that will be confusing in the moment, but no combination of keys should outright crash an application! What I wasn't able to test for is which synth/instrument your MIDI track is sending data to, so I can't reproduce your conditions 100% to create a crash. If you could maybe post a stripped down project file that others could load and test, that would be most helpful. After all, the developers are releasing updates every two months or so, and are always looking to fix any crash condition possible. - m

Honestly, I wouldn't either. This was a pretty bad first impression by a community, and that's a determining factor in how much people will get out of a piece of software.

Tell me about said side-effects, and maybe I can fix them. - m