Slide not available to move MIDI Clip or Group

[Todd Groemling]

The following has happened to me on and off over the years, but too often: Sometimes Cakewalk will not let me choose Slide to move a MIDI clip or a group of MIDI clips.  Slide is grayed out. The only option available is Nudge. Is there a fix? Meanwhile, I'm using the latest version: 28.02.0.0.39

[reginaldStjohn]

You may have to use your investigative abilities to see when and why this happens.  It may be that there there is a clip already at 0 possition so you can't drag it left. You may have the clips locked.  Does bouncing them to a single clip have any effect on the ability to move them? etc.

[sjoens]

Just had this happen this week 1st time ever. Along with a few other TLZ moments*, clips refused to drag left for no reason.

Not happening today so probably some kind of project related glitch.

Since X1 it's been common for track meters to fail regularly.

 

* Meters moving on the wrong tracks. Solo buttons turning off when track is soloed. Most of these are unreproducible at will.

[David Baay]

  On 4/10/2022 at 10:20 PM, reginaldStjohn said:

You may have the clips locked. 

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This is the only think I know of that will cause Slide to be grayed out. Nudge options other than changing nudge settings will also be grayed out. Locking Data Only should not cause this to happen but does.

[David Baay]

  On 4/11/2022 at 2:20 AM, sjoens said:

Just had this happen this week 1st time ever. Along with a few other TLZ moments*, clips refused to drag left for no reason.

Not happening today so probably some kind of project related glitch.

Since X1 it's been common for track meters to fail regularly.

* Meters moving on the wrong tracks. Solo buttons turning off when track is soloed. Most of these are unreproducible at will.

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FWIW, I don't recall ever seeing any of that.

[Todd Groemling]

1) I noticed for the 1st time that Clip Lock, which I never use, is directly above Clip Mute, which I do use a lot, But 2) I just intentionally tried locking a clip and, surprise surprise, I see a huge lock on the clip...But I've never seen a lock on any clip I've created or used. So 3) I'm thinking what's going on is truly a TLZ thing, but, 4) ironically, maybe I'll start locking clips so I don't accidentally move them. Meanwhile, 5) I've found that sometimes I have to copy the clip and paste it into another or brand new project, then bounce it to MIDI, then convert it to a step sequencer clip, then copy and paste it back into the original project file. 6) Other times I've closed out of the file, shut my computer down, then re-opened the project and voila, Slide becomes an option for me. SMH.

[sjoens]

Interesting Clip Mute/Unmute menu doesn't include the key binder K.