Scrub Tool

[johnpeeee]

Hi everyone, I wondered if anyone could advise me on a problem I’m having with the scrub tool. I press J and little speaker the icon appears but when I scrub across the waveform I don’t hear anything. Any thoughts?

thanks

John

[Colin Nicholls]

Does the track play when you engage the transport normally?

Muted Clip?

Muted Track?

Muted Bus?

 

[johnpeeee]

Hi, yes he track plays normally. My thoughts were initially the same as yours , was the track muted or other tracks soloed but nope everything was ‘free’.

thanks for replying

[Colin Nicholls]

Um. I don't normally use Scrub, so I tried some tests and I can reliably "White-Screen" Cakewalk just by enabling the audio engine and attempting to scrub some audio. Or MIDI.

Hmm.

[Tez]

@johnpeeee I get the scrub tool to work in the PRV for midi, for an audio track in the track view first drag with the scrub tool in the horizontal ruler, to hear all tracks, then try an individual track, that's how I got it work...

[johnpeeee]

Hi, yeah that’s what I’m doing I’ve never had a problem with it before. I don’t use it that often in fact this may be the first time since I switched from SONAR to Cakewalk by bandlab. I was just surprised that it didn’t work.

Do you think there might be something in preferences? I’ve looked but nothing stands out.

thanks for replying

 

[Tez]

2 hours ago, johnpeeee said:

Do you think there might be something in preferences

Not that I'm aware of, @scook  the font CbB knowledge may know ? Regardless, as far as I can tell for MIDI, the scrub tool only works in the PRV and the Staff View, the audio engine must be on and the now time line follows the mouse's pace as dragged . 

In the track view for an audio clip,  for a single track, the mouse must be in the track lane, the audio engine if off should get switched on at the start of the drag, but if the speed of the drag is greater than the tempo would move the now time line, it will move the now time at the speed of the tempo. If you slip out of the track into a non-audio space whilst still dragging the sound will stop but the now time line still follows the mouse. When the drag stops, the audio engine is switched off.

So, for me  it seems to work as expected... The only thing I can suggest is to have the latest version installed and maybe apply the latest hotfix  for numerous bugs:

That's what I've got installed...

Just for completeness:

https://bandlab.github.io/cakewalk/docs/Cakewalk Reference Guide.pdf#G18.1091347

Edited January 28, 2021 by Tez

[johnpeeee]

Thanks for the reply. I’m all up to date etc. It’s baffling though. I may try a full reinstall.

[Tez]

8 hours ago, johnpeeee said:

I may try a full reinstall

Good luck if you do... Just in case did you try "To bypass the current volume and pan settings when scrubbing, hold down the ALT key. This will force scrubbing to play back at unity gain and centered", just a thought...

[johnpeeee]

I did try that yes. No joy but I went back to the restore point I created before the last update and it worked. Reinstalled the new update and it works. Odd but all seems to be ok again. Thanks for your time. 
 

john

[Tez]

Rabbit holes, Ha... Glad you got out of that one ?

[Wojtek Stecyszyn]

Hi guys.

New question (I don't want to open new topic for this)

in Cakewalk Documentation we read:

However in my case Scrub Tool IS AFFECTED by Mute/Solo of a track. I cant scrub z clip on a muted track, or scrub a track when other is soloed.

How it it in your case?