David Baay

Hmmm... yeah, if it's based on the original Lennon tracks, that will definitely not be following a click. P.M. me a link to a shared upload and I can get you started at least with a rough alignment. If it includes a synced click track, it should be quick.

Yes, if they're going out of sync, it's the audio tempo that's out of sync (or varying) against the project tempo. You can confirm this for yourself by enabling the Playback metronome and hearing that the MIDI click stays in sync with it. I'd be happy to take a look at it if the track(s) are freely available somewhere or you can share a zipped copy of the project folder.

It seems some posters here have encountered the problem and understand it, but I don't see a tempo change in the region being edited, and it's not clear to me what action was taken between the first and second screenshot. I'd like to understand fully so I can reproduce it and submit a bug-demo project to the Bakers.

Same question as for MrNoName above: What screen resolution, physical size and Windows scaling? The Bakers will need to know. I'm not seeing that on either my scaled laptop or unscaled desktop monitors, but I have intermittently seen Preferences displayed with oddly bold fonts in the past.

What screen resolution, physical size and Windows scaling? For me everything is noticeably sharper on both a 16" 3072 x 1920 laptop at 160%, and 24" 1920 x 1200 desktop monitors at 100%. The only thing I notice is that the font used in dialog boxes is so fine it almost looks grayed out on the laptop, but it's fine on the desktop monitors.

Segemented meter option is still available in Preferences > Customization > Audio Meters.

It's possible the project tempo needs to be tweaked to match the actual audio tempo. A quick way to do this is to count out 8 measures, Tab/Shift+Tab to the transient that should be at 9:01:000, and if it's not exactly there at 76bpm, hit Shift+M to open the Set Measure/Beat dialog, enter Measure 9, Beat 1 (probably already guessed by CbB), and OK. CbB will modify the initial tempo as necessary to align the timline with the audio at that point. If it's a fixed tempo it should be pretty well aligned through the end of the song. If it still drifts a bit, you can get more accuracy by undoing the original Set, and doing one further out like 33:01 and also manually putting the Now time exactly on the transient with snap disabled rather then depending on CbB's transient detection to get it right on the money. If the tempo still drifts at that point, then it wasn't recorded to a click, and you'll have to Set more points to line it up every 4-8 measures or more.

Interesting. Just saw this and downloaded the project just to see what was going on. I noted the Enable Stretch option was checked (with stretch still at 100%) in Audisnap properties which it should not have been by default. I didn't find that it caused the problem shown in your video even before I disabled it, but I did find the audio weirdly distorted like it had been previously stretched even after I reset all markers. Glad to hear you got it sorted in any case.

You can just drag and drop it into a MIDI or Instrument track from wherever you downloaded it, and it should be immediately ready to roll out copies. It will appear short of 4 beats because the notes are only 1/32 long and it ends on the last one, but once drag past the the end of the first bar, you'll see the beveled corners where it starts to repeat. Also, since you said you didn't want anything too distinct, I set the velocity at 72, but that's easily changed any number of ways, including non-destructively by just putting a Vel+ offset on the track.

Hmmm... unless something has been broken in a recent release, that's pretty weird, and I can't really imagine what could cause that. Can you zip up a project with a small snippet to share? I'll have a quick look here in the mean time. EDIT: Seems all good here, alternately stretching/compressing phrases in a two-hour-long interview. I'm wondering whether you're actually hearing a compressed segment play at the same slower speed as a preceding stretched segment where you started playback or are you being 'fooled' by the fact that the M:B:T timeline is the fixed visual time reference and at a given timeline tempo the Now Cursor will always travel at constant speed regardless of the 'tempo' of the audio...?

I'm not fully understanding your process. Are you matching the tempo track to what you're doing in Audiosnap? If you're just moving transient markers around manually, the total playback time of the clip will not change, and making one section slower by stretching a range of transients will necessarily make the next section start sooner and/or play faster, depending on what's selected, and whether you're using proportional stretching. But where you start playback would not matter in that case so I think I'm missing something about how you're working. If I'm understanding the goal, my approach would be to match the timeline to the audio using Set Measure/Beat At Now, and then enable Autostretch on the audio clip and flatten or moderate the tempo variability using the Tempo Offset by Percent feature.

If the clip was created in Step Sequencer, it's already a Groove Clip, and there is no need to right-click for anything. Just hovering over the edge of the clip will display the slip-edit cursor as Glenn's screenshot shows and left-click will grab the edge to roll it out. I know you want to figure this out for yourself, and I'm all for 'teaching a man to fish', but did you try the Groove Clip I shared?

I like to use the Groove Clip section of the Clip Inspector to set Beats in Clip. Loop Construction is for audio, and I think you're wanting MIDI. Here you go: 4-Beat Closed-Hat Click.mid

^^^ This. When was the last time you rebooted? In the past I've had issues with "zombie" logins to Bandlab that don't work for authentication and persist even after logging out and closing all browser sessions.

Options > Click Behavior > Transport Seeking Stops Playback

When you say 'export', you mean the same as transmit/send, right? I use external MIDI hardware all the time, and have not encountered any issues with regular note and controller data. And I happened to be using MIDI Sync just recently as well without a problem. Start/Stop/Position working indicates the basic port assignments, connections and drivers are all okay. The most likely issue then would be that the transmit/receive channels are not matching.

Sounds like CPU Conservation Mode, toggled on/off by the Pause key, reducing UI updates to one/second. Will affect meters as well as the Now Cursor.

There was a long discussion of issues related to punching in to a Melodyned track a while back. It wasn't clear how much of this was due to CW's implementation vs. inherent limitations of ARA:

I can't repro either if those issues on either my desktop DAW with PCIe MOTU interface or my laptop with a USB Roland interface. But I have noticed that the Win10 spinner (hourglass in Win11) persists for a long time when the Start Screen is opened though it doesn't seem to interfere with launching anything.

FWIW, there is a workaround to use the left and right sides of the External Insert to process two mono signal independently though you'll still have to give up two I/O channels to the one EI instance: 1. Set the Outputs of two mono source tracks to a new Aux track named generically 'EI Host' and pan them hard left and right. 2. Add the External Insert to the FX Bin on 'EI Host' and assign I/O pairs to it as usual. 3. Output the 'EI Host' track to a new Patch Point. 4. Create two 'EI Return (L)' and 'EI Return (R)' tracks and set their Inputs to the left and right sides of the new Patch Point (renaming it "EI Return" in the process for clarity). 5. Leave the Interleave of the two Return tracks set to stereo. You can now route the two I/O channels through indpendent mono FX. The 'Return' tracks will echo and record the processed signals independently and muting/soloing/panning will work as usual. The one anomaly you might notice is that the Confidence Recording preview will show the two return signals merged to a mono waveform while recording, but when you stop recording, you'll see the correct mono waveform in each track. Also, I found the input assignments of the Return tracks changed to Stereo when I saved this setup as a Track Template which is unfortunate. @msmcleod Did say he would look into addressing this limitation at some point, but that it wasn't trivial.

The Project Preview file is created by default on the first Export of the project from the new Sonar (see the checkbox at the lower left of the Mix and Render section). After that, you can choose to enable/disable the option to replace the preview file or not on subsequent exports. The rendering of the preview file should follow the Source Category and other settings in the Export dialog so that it matches the level of the 'external' export file. I suppose it's possible that routing of the playback from the Start Screen could alter the playback level, but I haven't noticed a difference in any of my projects; the Preview always plays at exactly the same level as the live project. You can find the preview files in the Audio folder of the project; they have long UIDs for names. If you save alternate versions of projects to the same project folder (as I often do) there will be a preview file for each and it won't be easy to tell which file is associated with which .CWP except maybe by its date or by changing the file extension and seeing which project loses its preview capability in the Start Screen.

@Kevin Walsh what are you specifically referring to when you say UI lags behind? Also can you share some info about your displays and windows settings for display resolution and scaling? Yeah, this is not the norm. Sonar is currently no different from CbB in which the Now Cursor animation has always been a bit jittery with 'ghosting' at higher zoom levels, but not "lagging".

Where possible, I always recommend clicking the virtual keyboard in the synth UI to generate audio output. This also verifies the synth output is correctly assigned to input of the Instrument/Synth track.

Track 4 is an Instrument track (combined MIDI and Audio) for SI- Electirc Piano. All you need to do is Shift+Drag (shift to constrain the time when dragging vertically) the MIDI to the Instrument track, and get rid of the separate MIDI tracks. If you click the button at the lower left of the instrument track to Show Lanes, you can add a lane and keep the two MIDI clips separate in that one Instrument track. It should actually work the way it is but, technically, the synth associated with an instrument track is intended to receive MIDI only from that Instrument track.

I found the cause in my case: having a Disconnected synth associated with an Instrument track above the one from which I was saving a template. I haven't tested all the possible permutations of where the Disconnected synth is in the Synth Rack, but I suspect that having any disconnected synth above the one for which you're saving a template will cause a problem. In my case, the synth was manually Disconnected, but I'm guessing that freezing an Instrument/Synth track would have the same effect because it disconnects the synth. Reported to the Bakers.