Odd behaviour in Cubase SX2?

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Hi guys,

I'm getting this very strange behaviour in Cubase SX2, and wanted to see if someone could tell me why it's doing this.

Ok, in Cubase SX2, in your main sequencer window. Let's say you have drawn in a block in one of your channels (for example 4 bars long). Let's say that you have midi notes in the first 2 bars only, and the second two bars is empty.

When I go to RESIZE that block (by getting the mouse and grabbing the 'right' side of the block, and shortening it to 2 bars only), the midi notes in the block (in the first two bars) actually MOVE TO THE LEFT relative to where my mouse is. So when i move it to two bars long, the midi notes have DISAPPEARED to the left of the block.

This is strange, because the way it USED to work (and the way it works on other setups) is that the midi notes would STAY WHERE THEY ARE, and the block simply gets resized around them.

It's difficult to explain, I can show screen shots if that will help.

I'm sure it's only a simple setting that needs to be changed, but I don't know what it is.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

Cheers,
EoN

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Hi EoN,
I get ya man...
Strange though eh, I know this isn't SX's default behaviour 'coz it doesn't do this for me?
Maybe you have an odd switch activated or something set non-default in the Preferences/MIDI dialogue?

Maybe it's a bug? What build version of SX2 are you running?
Could be as simple as needing an update?
Check it out...
:)

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The Arrow Tool in the Project window toolbar has three modes, accessible via the small arrow at the bottom-right of its icon..
1) Normal Sizing
2) Sizing Moves Contents ( which is what I think you have it set to at the moment)
3) Sizing Applies Time Stretch (works on both MIDI and Audio)
I did get a life,once...but it was faulty, so I sent it back.

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What Vic said...

And btw, switching through the different arrow modes can also be accomplished by pressing "1" multiple times (at default keycommand setting).
Permanently happened to me accidentally because I am so used to switch Logics screensets with keys 1-9. Had to change that keycommand.
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Those who can do maths and those who can't.

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Ahh! Works a charm :) You guys are legends. THANK YOU! Very much appreciated.

I regularly use the '1' key to select the arrow (8 for pencil etc). So I must have toggled it one too many times.

Thanks again guys :) Champions!

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Hey - speaking of strange behaviour: does anyone notice that the cursor stops snapping to grid (Track View, Key Editor) once you zoom in a certain amount? I have to zoom back out to get it to snap to 16ths again, say. Or is it just me?

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