Every multi-track recorder in existence has automatic input switching. Why is this simple feature STILL MISSING from Cubase Pro 11?
∆ playback = channel plays existing recording
∆ punch in = channel switches to input (so the player can hear the new part being recorded)
∆ punch out = channel plays existing recording
Come on guys! How long are we going to have to wait for this simple PRO RECORDING feature?
—Sherman Keene
I did have to get used to this after switching from Ableton.
I’m not too informed about this stuff but I imagine this gets complicated with regards to ASIO guard.
The punch in/punch out recording described in the manual seems to match your description. Is this what you are after?
After working with Ike & Tina, Zappa, The Turtles, The Byrds and Alice Cooper . . .
I would have gone bonkers without this highly necessary feature.
The software designers must have never run a good ol’ 24 track overdub session.
If they had, Cubase would HAVE automatic input switching.
I want a mini-update . . .
An add-on . . .
Something!
Come on guys and gals!
Let’s add this missing feature we’ve has to do without all these decades!
NOW would be a good time.
Preferences - VST - Audiomonitoring - select “Tapemachine style”
“At a given position” is nowhere as good as automatic input switching.
As an overdub session proceeds the punch-in point may be different on each pass.
We need a Cubase that is as good as any
Recording Frank Zappa’s voice in my records of the
Apostrophe and Overnight Sensation albums
required thousands of punch-ins and punch-outs.
“At a given position” is just not the same thing.
When you DO finally give us punch in and punch out make sure it works correctly.
Sherman Barry
in Cubase Pro 11? really? seriously?
punching in and out is working?
how long has this been available?
I have to do a session right now and try this revelation out!
thanks for the alert!
i’m stoked!
Seriously!
It is working since the first iteration of audio recording in Cubase, back in the 80s.
Thank you for helping me!
I found mention of it on page 1182 of the manual but without any mention of where to set this “style.”
This is why I have always wished that there would be a chapter (or training video) of step by step setting up Cubase as an expert musician and recording engineer would.
What setting to make and why.
The Cubase manual, like nearly every other manual, describes (instead)
What a feature is called and what it does (not how an expert would use it)
If such a chapter existed I would have STARTED OUT using Cubase Pro as a Pro at version 6—not 11.
In a previous email I was told to look in
Preferences - VST - Audiomonitoring - select “Tapemachine style”
I’ll keep looking.
Thank you!
This one setting would make it SO much easier to record!
you don’t need to look further than what the email is saying
Wow!
Thanks to your help I found the setting. It’s “hidden” in a pop-up.
Now my Pro 11 works just like every 24-track I ever used at
You always have us here on the friendly user forum 
I agree on the alternative manual, though.
Hi Johnny!
You’re right. Friendly it is.
One day asking for help on the Forum has answer at 3 decade long question.
I can’t believe that I now have a Cubase 11 Pro that punches in and out like my beloved 24 track analog recorders did!
Thanks all around!
The best came to Wally Heider/Hollywood.
On a piece of 1 inch white paper tape I would write
Alignment OK √
(date) (time)
Sherman
MeeeeeeE HappeeeeeeE!
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