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This is a new issue for me. I was changing tempo with the slider (which could be bigger, but I so rarely use it) anyway... DP would not respond to any commands. I was playing back a simple piano part at the time (via MachFive). Neither the trackpad (MT2) nor the wired QWERTY Apple kbd had any effect in terms of stopping the sequence. I could still click in the Tempo Slider window and enter data, but that was it! I had to force quit to end playback.

Wow... strange. I think maybe ONCE I may have had that happen but could never reproduce it.

I think it's related to leaving a data entry window before confirming the data, which is what i think happened here. I was in another window after relaunching and did the same thing. The response (or lack thereof) from DP resumed after I went back into the window (conductor track in this instance) but this time it allowed me to re-enter the window and confirm the entry. I'm on the fence as to whether or not I should bother reporting it to MOTU as possible bug. It's not exactly user error, but once you leave a window and click elsewhere w/o confirming an entry, I would expect a warning dialogue box to ask for a confirmation. That's not happening, at least not consistently throughout the application.

Was there a value in the tempo field? I've lost control of DP (although never while playing) when I can't get that field's tempo data entered. Occasionally I have a hard time entering tempo data while in slider-mode. I'll select the field, type in a number, but can't get Return or Enter or anything to allow me to enter the number. They just clear the field and I can't do anything else in DP. If I had been in Play when this happened I wouldn't have been able to stop.

It happens so rarely I haven't been able figure out what I did each time to fix it. I just keep clicking, typing tempo data and Entering and some combo therein enters the data and I move on....

Sounds like what I experienced. I wonder if MOTU still monitors this site or if that was MacgicD's domain?

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:I think it's related to leaving a data entry window before confirming the data, which is what i think happened here.

That has happened to me. I think it was the Change Tempo window and it somehow got hidden behind a floating plugin window, so I didn't know it was still open. - or somethin

Phil

So I'm NOT crazy... well...

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:So I'm NOT crazy... well...

You really want to toss a softball like that?

mikehalloran wrote:

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:So I'm NOT crazy... well...

You really want to toss a softball like that?

Sure. I gotta big glove... (not to brag or anything)

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Sounds like what I experienced. I wonder if MOTU still monitors this site or if that was MacgicD's domain?

I was wondering that myself. Also, whether any other key personnel at MOTU are also moving on.

dix wrote:

MIDI Life Crisis wrote:Sounds like what I experienced. I wonder if MOTU still monitors this site or if that was MacgicD's domain?

I was wondering that myself. Also, whether any other key personnel at MOTU are also moving on.

There are a couple of other MOTU folks that check in here, but their names elude me at the moment. I think you are far more likely to find them on some site that has something to do with blue lowercase letters, or thumbs, or something like that.

Hmmm... Thumb sites. I wonder what URLs are still available.

Hey MLC...

You may or may not be crazy.
I have experienced the same problem on various occasions.
For me, I think it was when tapping tempo on the assigned tap tempo key.
Suddenly there is no way to get out.
All key taps result in a bonk sound.
Major bummer.

Beyond that, I gotta say that I am so grateful for you and your kind knowledge offered here.
MLC Posts: 24210....
Twenty four thousand posts....
What the heck?
Holy Ships!
Amazing!
Thanks!

For us, it is always the dreaded hidden window thing too. Never even know it is there.

waterstrum wrote:
You may or may not be crazy.

MLC Posts: 24210....
Twenty four thousand posts....

You just answered your own question. Lol