Step Sequencer weirdness and me ... again!

[Cobus Prinsloo]

Hi, I use the SS a lot for my drum tracks, but every now and then it behaves weirdly and unpredictably. 

In my current project, I have a simple SS clip with only a kick and tambourine, but no matter what velocity changes I made to the Kick, it remained the same loudness. I even muted it (screenshot 1), and miraculously, it still plays audibly! (I made 100% sure there was no other hidden track with a kick in it). 

For further testing, I copied this clip to one of my templates (Screenshot 2, track 17), which already has two drum tracks (tracks 15, 16) that contain SS clips.

NOW it is getting even weirder: when I double-click the newly pasted SS clip (tr 17) for editing, it displays the content of the Main Percussion track (tr 16). And when I close the SS editor, then suddenly the new test clip (17) has the same properties as the clip in track 16 (screenshot 3)! 

Can anyone guess why this would be happening? The drums used are from one of the old Cakewalk TTS-1's drum tracks. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Cobus Prinsloo
To make case clearer

[Wookiee]

@Cobus Prinsloo where are you making the velocity edits? Each SS lane can be expanded to reveal additional controls. 

[reginaldStjohn]

You may have made a linked clip when you copied it.

 

https://legacy.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Arranging.33.html

[Cobus Prinsloo]

On 6/1/2025 at 4:55 AM, reginaldStjohn said:

You may have made a linked clip when you copied it.

I see what you mean. The fact that both clips have the same instance ID [2] led Sonar to believe that both are the same. So, I checked "Unlink Step Sequencer Clips" before copying it, and that solved this issue, thanks! In this new template, the clip velocities behave normally again.

But, it still doesn't explain why the kick still plays back even while being muted in the original project.