I cannot account for why you now have to drag to Explorer and why what used to work doesn't, but I can verify that I regularly hear noise at the beginning of the drum track when I drag 'n drop into SONAR.

The noise occurs at the beginning of what would be the two-bar count-in.

I just slide the handle of the beginning of the drum track one measure and this removes the problem. Alternatively, I mix everything down to stereo and edit out the beginning.


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