Yes, when this first happened to me, I was working from a 32-gig SanDisk Ultra SD card (80 MB/s). Naturally, my first instinct was to blame the card, so I installed a 250-gig Samsung 860 Evo SSD. The gratuitous saving issue happens on both storage devices.
The only possible explanation I can come up with there is, perhaps it depends on which parameters have been changed…?
I started this project on 2.4 (upon purchase of my MPC) and I’m now on 2.5. This behaviour has persisted through both operating systems, despite the fact that I have saved the project anew, with fresh samples, to a different location, under a different name, etc.
The fact that you are also working from an external drive, and haven’t been able to consistently reproduce the issue, blows a theory I’ve been crafting that maybe the problem simply doesn’t occur for people using the MPC’s proprietary drive. Anyway…
I don’t know, lads, I’ve been involved in the development of a lot of new tech over the years, hunted down a thousand bugs in that time, but I’m at a loss here. All I know is, it’s very predictable behaviour on my MPC. I can reproduce the issue faithfully. That said, admittedly there are a lot of variables to consider here.
At any rate, I appreciate you guys taking this to task with me!
Cheers!