selected midi notes in piano roll dont change appearance or color to show what you've highlighted-they used to in older versions.

[Kurt Barkdull]

I'm using bandlab sonar and selected midi notes in piano roll dont change appearance or color to show what you've highlighted as they used to in older versions. Is their a setting that will work? Thanks in advance.

[Colin Nicholls]

I don't see this in Cakewalk Sonar. The behavior appears to be unchanged from Sonar Platinum, or Cakewalk by Bandlab.
I'm not sure that I've selected any unusual settings here - I'm using the Tungsten theme for what it is worth.

You might need to post a short video or something to demonstrate the issue.

[Canopus]

7 hours ago, Kurt Barkdull said:

I'm using bandlab sonar and selected midi notes in piano roll dont change appearance or color to show what you've highlighted as they used to in older versions. Is their a setting that will work? Thanks in advance.

Then you're probably using your MIDI keyboard as a control surface. This issue has been discussed quite a few times in this forum and the answer turned out to be that if you use your keyboard as a control surface, no keys will be highlighted in the PRV.

The only workaround is if you've got a keyboard with both a USB and a traditional MIDI DIN connection. Then you can use one of those as the In Port to your control surface in Preferences. Of course, you'd also need a traditional MIDI input on your audio interface. That setup works for me.

Edited yesterday at 07:36 AM by Canopus

[David Baay]

8 hours ago, Canopus said:

if you use your keyboard as a control surface, no keys will be highlighted in the PRV.

The OP is saying the note 'blobs' aren't getting highlighted when selected - unrelated to keyboard animation.

15 hours ago, Kurt Barkdull said:

selected midi notes in piano roll dont change appearance or color to show what you've highlighted

Sounds to me like the notes aren't actually getting selected, possibly due to the clip being locked.

[Colin Nicholls]

1 hour ago, David Baay said:

possibly due to the clip being locked.

It makes no difference for me whether the clip is locked (data or position). I can still select the notes with the right-click lasso or swiping in the track view; notes get highlighted (actually turn white) in the PRV. 

So I don't think that is it.

[David Baay]

4 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said:

I can still select the notes with the right-click lasso or swiping in the track view; notes get highlighted (actually turn white) in the PRV. 

Lasso and swiping in the timeline/keyboard also work to highlight in the PRV, but not left-clicking on notes. The Smart tool doesn't register that there's a note under it (no change in pointer) when Clip Data is locked.

[Colin Nicholls]

Yeah I see the Smart tool won't recognize it is hovering over a note when the clip is locked. But the Select tool or any other method of note selection works.

@Kurt Barkdull, what methods are you using to select notes? Could your clips be locked as @David Baay suggests?

[David Baay]

19 minutes ago, Colin Nicholls said:

But the Select tool or any other method of note selection works.

I guess tha makes select by left-click with the Smart tool the exception among all the methods, and maybe clip-locking is not what's going on in the OP's case. It was just the only thing that came to mind.

[sjoens]

You might also need to know which theme OP is using as that may play a factor in this.