Colin Nicholls

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That's the clip menu icon. All clips have them, it's not random.

Sorry! I missed your post earlier. Either way, we know it is working as designed and, although confusing, isn't an easy "fix". I, too, am looking forward to the colorization update to see if there is a way to mitigate this.

The original bitmap-based themes in CbB and original SONAR made this issue a lot less of a problem. Most people never even noticed it. Now that the vector-based theming uses a more visually distinct technique to signify "lit" and "dimly-lit", it is more annoying.

It don't work It works for me if i use the right computer!

"Any color you like... so long as its white" Yeah try selecting a blue color for the track, and you'll see the selected notes turn white (instead of blue)

Huh. I just tried this with one channel on my Presonus Quantum 2626 and I think I'm seeing the same thing. If I record a constant tone pegged at -27 db on the input meter; on playback via Output 1 I am seeing -21 db on the output meter. That's 6 db louder. Is this a case of mono tracks getting autopanned center and panning laws applying? Or something? ...yeah could be. If I pan track 1 to be 100% left (instead of the default center) then playback is now -27db, matching input. My panning laws are set to "0db center, sin/cos taper constant power" Ok, not sure what is going on. How have you panned your tracks?

It's clear to me you've routed each track to the corresponding hardware output of the interface- I am not sure why folks are getting hung up on that. Your levels should not be doubled up - there is some kind of loopback taking effect here, perhaps? almost certainly specific to your Audio IO hardware/driver. I agree that you should disable the record arm during playback just to restore things to a more normal, expected state. This is an example of a valid use-case - essentially treating Sonar as a tape recorder, N tracks in and N tracks out via the hardware. We'll get to the bottom of this!

Closure! Thank goodness

Yeah I see the Smart tool won't recognize it is hovering over a note when the clip is locked. But the Select tool or any other method of note selection works. @Kurt Barkdull, what methods are you using to select notes? Could your clips be locked as @David Baay suggests?

It makes no difference for me whether the clip is locked (data or position). I can still select the notes with the right-click lasso or swiping in the track view; notes get highlighted (actually turn white) in the PRV. So I don't think that is it.

I don't see this in Cakewalk Sonar. The behavior appears to be unchanged from Sonar Platinum, or Cakewalk by Bandlab. I'm not sure that I've selected any unusual settings here - I'm using the Tungsten theme for what it is worth. You might need to post a short video or something to demonstrate the issue.

Click the "ByPass all FX" button in the Mix Module and see if the problem goes away If it does, great! At this point, with FX disabled, I would start varying the ASIO buffer size from absurdly small to wastefully large, so that you build intuition for what a variations in ASIO buffer size should feel like: delays in start/stop, latency on virtual instrument (key press -> sound); clicks, pops, all the way to complete dropout. Okay, now you can re-enable FX and tune the ASIO buffer - if you're not seeing ANY changes (good or bad) as you vary the buffer size, then the problem might not be related to the buffer at all.

That window is the un-maximized ("restored") Piano Roll View window. The top-left corner (icon) should be the regular Windows standard "window control menu", that Microsoft have made such a hash of in recent Windows OS releases. If the Window is active, then Alt-"minus" should display the window control menu , or clicking on the window icon in the top left corner should also display the menu. Looks like Alt-Space and Alt-Minus are not available. One of my pet peeves is windows application developers using MDI windows, but breaking keyboard shortcut conventions. That ship has sailed, to our detriment, as you are discovering.

Hi Kurt. I believe your Piano Roll view is in the following state: It is undocked, disabled floating, and maximized. Click on this window control button to restore:. Then decide whether to "enable floating" or "dock in Multidoc" using the window control menu: Then you can follow the instructions suggested by others in this thread.