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I am working with a project that has 18 song clips I recorded in DP that I'm mixing to press to video.

When I'm switching chunks to move to a new song, the Mixing board will move to the new song and also sometimes whatever window is open (Tracks Overview or Sequence window). When I press play, it'll play back the new chunk but the cursor won't move as it thinks it's still in the old chunk.

I have to open the new chunk in the Tracks Overview window, then go into the Sequence window, select another chunk and then go BACK and select again the chunk I want to work with ... only then will the whole session switch over to the new chunk.

Anyone else have this issue? Know any workarounds?

Yes, this sometimes happens for me but I can't reliably reproduce it so I haven't been able to report it to MOTU.

**Leigh

I remember this being an issue ever since I started using CHUNKS in DP (6)?

Anyone have a suggestion on what to do to resolve?

leigh wrote:Yes, this sometimes happens for me but I can't reliably reproduce it so I haven't been able to report it to MOTU.

**Leigh

Same irregular behavior here. I use Window Sets so I just hit the key for the WS I'm currently using or switch to another WS then back which sets me straight. I use Consolidated Windows with mixer and quick scribe windows popped out on second screen.

I always use a popped out Mixer window.

Even when I switch chunks, and the open Tracks Window switches to the new chunk, when i switch to the SEQUENCE window, It'll still be in the old chunk. Switching back and forth to subsequent windows doesn't switch to the new chunk. I have to manually go back to the old chunk then back to the new chunk.

I had that problem in version 6.x. I dealt with it the best I could, and for some reason in time it stopped doing that. I haven't seen that behavior now in several years.

There are some mysterious things about DP that I have never understood, and they involve how it can have widely divergent behaviors on different setups. For example, branching undo does not work for me. It keeps a linear record of undos, but no branches, no matter what I do. (trust me, it's not user error) Everyone I talk to says theirs is branching just fine. Apparently I'm the only one. Why? I have no idea. And others report specific behaviors that either I've never had, or that I had years ago but no more.

Strange.

Shoosh

It's not a HUGE deal ... but just a little annoyance.

I'd just like to have a clean and smooth running DP since I've had so many computer issues in the past to make me buy a new (used) Mac Pro ...

+1. I had enough of it to call MOTU tech support, but (lucky me) I got the guy with the amazingly unhelpful attitude who likes to waste the first five minutes of the phone call arguing that the problem doesn't exist. So, I deal with it by taking a quick detour through a different screen set. It pays to go through the list of Commands and get some nice shortcuts going.

I can almost universally make that happen in DP7 by switching chunks and immediately changing windows.

I know this will be a dumb question, but you're using the Consolidated Window? I know that the Tracks Overview won't switch to the new chunk unless it's in the CW.

This hadn't happened in my few weeks with 8.06, now 8.07 was doing this constantly last night. I could close and reopen DP and get control back. Once it started, there was no stopping it any time I changed sequences.

There's a preference for this, something like edit windows follow Play Enabled Chunk. (I'm not in front of DP at the moment) do you have that checked?

I may be talking about a different problem, or simply related. The only thing I do that confuses the windows is when changing the sequence. I'm not switching anything from the chunks window.

EMRR wrote:I may be talking about a different problem, or simply related. The only thing I do that confuses the windows is when changing the sequence. I'm not switching anything from the chunks window.

Sequences = Chunks

It's apples and apples.

Of course, Chunks can be other things like Songs or V-Racks, but when you talk about switching Sequences, you're talking about switching a Chunk.

Shooshie

Yes, but is the behavior identical for all paths? That's what I'm considering. I only use the one path, and I don't chain chunks together.