I can't unselect some audio

[Walbertus]

I was just doing some routine audio clip editing in the sequence editor and somehow it selected an entire track that I cannot escape from. The clip has a kind of lightened look and the cursor is now a lasso. It no longer responds to any key commands I can think of. What did I do? I don't want to lose the edits I was making before this happened.

[HCMarkus]

You may have to Force Quit, but you may also be able to Save before you do so.

If Force Quit say DP is "not responding", and DP has been sitting for awhile without anything changing, you may have no other option.

[Walbertus]

Thanks for your suggestion. It was odd, It was only that track that was frozen. All other tracks work normally. But this one track was somehow locked I couldn't select it or do anything with it. And the track lock was not on either.
I was able to recover the most recent autosave before it happened so I didn't lose much work.
I was just checking to see if anyone knew if there was some kind of command that I accidentally did to cause it. I searched the manual without luck.

[mikehalloran]

I have seen this—in fact, have caused this. I sure wish to hell I knew how. I work with one good hand and place the other on necessary key modifiers as needed. Sometimes, one hand or the other will slip and hit the wrong key causing this behavior. It doesn't show up in the Undo lists, unfortunately. Force-Quit and open the last Auto Save is the only remedy I know, too. Last time was about six weeks ago for me.

The good news is that, because something does cause this behavior, it's unlikely to reoccur. I wish I could say the same for myself.

[Walbertus]

I have seen this—in fact, have caused this. I sure wish to hell I knew how. I work with one good hand and place the other on necessary key modifiers as needed. Sometimes, one hand or the other will slip and hit the wrong key causing this behavior. It doesn't show up in the Undo lists, unfortunately. Force-Quit and open the last Auto Save is the only remedy I know, too. Last time was about six weeks ago for me.

The good news is that, because something does cause this behavior, it's unlikely to reoccur. I wish I could say the same for myself.

Yes, it happened just as you described. Good to know it's not just me.

[Irimi Nage]

I’ve had this, also with MIDI notes.

Something similar happens with the clip indicators in the audio input meters. The clip lights won’t turn off until DP is restarted. Been at least 10 years or more with that one!

Every once in a while I’ll get another, the floating text readout of say a plugin knob will remain on the screen after the click is released, even after the plugin window is closed. Restarting DP is the way out of that one as well.