Midi Keyboard solo changing key randomly (solved)

[John Ritter]

Well, I'm baffled by this one but it keeps happening.  I have a song with only 6 tracks.  The keyboard solo track is a V-Station sound.  And it's happened 10 times at least where I'm working on the track and the solo detunes itself a step or two.  One minute it's fine, then all the sudden the track is in the wrong key.  Restarting Cakewalk ALWAYS fixes it for a time then it happens again.  Any idea what would cause this?

Edited December 10, 2021 by John Ritter

[Byron Dickens]

Is there a pitch bend in there somewhere?

Edited December 8, 2021 by bdickens

[John Ritter]

omg, there might just possibly be.  So it's possible where I press play is where a pitch bend took place?  That makes sense.  I'll explore and get back to you.

[John Vere]

There’s even been people with this issue and further investigation found that their controller was transmitting pitch bend because the pitch bend wheel or joystick was sticking.
If the track your playing is in focus it can be effected by this. 

[RBH]

You can set " zero controllers on stop " in  PROJECT / MIDI preferences. This would eliminate having to re-start the program to zero out the pitch bend issue. Also you can select the track in the Piano roll view and select wheel data and just  right click drag  to the left to select the data and delete it.

[John Ritter]

On 12/9/2021 at 7:51 AM, RBH said:

You can set " zero controllers on stop " in  PROJECT / MIDI preferences. This would eliminate having to re-start the program to zero out the pitch bend issue. Also you can select the track in the Piano roll view and select wheel data and just  right click drag  to the left to select the data and delete it.

Thanks RBH and everyone else.  I think that's definitely needed.  This track seems to be doing the same thing with both pitch bend and the mod wheel applying when I don't want them to.