A couple of small things that I would really like Cubase to fix:
Save things like the most recently opened files when a change occurs, not on exit. Currently, when Cubase crashes, the last files you opened are not in the MRU list.
Let’s say you edit a midi note and accidentally extend it over the end of the clip. You get a dialog that gives you the options “extend the clip” or “move anyways”. Please add an option “do nothing” - let me abandon whatever I did because the result is not what I had in mind
When you open a project with a newer backup, similar thing. You get the option to either load the original or the backup. Please add an option to cancel and do nothing. In many cases when this happens to me it is an indicator that I am loading the wrong file to begin with. Currently it means I have to load the project then close it, which may take forever. Also, while a project is loading there is the “abort” button but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything. When I press it, Cubase will still load the project
if I were you I’d split this thread into multiple feature requests and give them proper titles each. This way it’s much easier to identify what you are after and people can focus on one topic.
Replying to your three points:
I’d suggest to change the auto back up interval
Separate feature request?
There are existing threads on this topic around here. Feel free to join the discussion and leave a vote for the feature request
+1 on midi range extending to “do nothing”. You might not realize why your note just disappeared though. Or maybe it could appear out of bounds and just be a red color and muted.
+1 on the “do nothing” backup. Just load cubase already. It crashed, but if I care to do something about it I will. Don’t need the safe-mode hand holding every time.
Save when a change occurs? Why are some guys so afraid of losing data? Do you not think that you can recreate the fifteen minutes (or less) of work if you lost it? Why make your computer be forced to write to the disk an extra thousands and thousands of times in an hour to accomodate some fear that shouldn’t exist anyway? Instead of just accepting that loss sometimes happens.
I’m not talking about changes to auto-save of the Cubase project data. I am talking about saving the MRU (most recently used) files list and perhaps other preferences whenever a change is made to these settings, as opposed to saving them when Cubase exits (which means that the changes, such as the latest version of the file opened are lost when Cubase crashes before). Of course, I can re-discover what my latest file is by searching my hard drive, but then again, why should I? I can’t see any real downside for Cubase to save such data when the change occurs, given that this data is tiny and doesn’t accumulate.
Because my time is infinitely more valuable than computer time. They are machines we invented to serve our needs, and if that means a bunch of disk I/O, so be it. That’s why I spent money on hardware. And human brains don’t have 100% precise recall, so it might be practically impossible to recreate the last 15 minutes of work.
If you just recorded the guitar/organ/violin/recorder/spoons/whatever solo of your life and Cubase goes POOF! I’d sitting in the kitchen,. nursing a bottle of Irish, watering it down with my tears.
Not afraid, terrified!
And it’s happened to me, except with my portastudio - cassette tape got screwed up.
If you would have read my statement in good faith, you would have noticed I was making a relative comparison, not an absolute statement. Regardless, your language and allegations are inappropriate, so I will not reply any further to this. You’ll likely find a more appropriate place (and more receptive audience) for this sort of discourse elsewhere on the internet. Let’s keep this forum respectful and solution-focused, please.
