I believe ‘Mix-Stacked’ mode effectively offers this when doing auto cycle records, but it doesn’t auto mute earlier sections of takes when overlaying partial MANUAL takes and making additional MIDI lanes.
Is there a way to achieve this without needing to cut up earlier events to allow muting of earlier parts of lane events.
Seems like basic required functionality - if it was good for audio lanes, surely it is good for midi too?
Or have I missed the obvious?
Hi,
No, MIDI Parts don’t act this way and there is no preferences to change it, sorry.
you can make a Feature Request for a preference, perhaps “Editing: Treat MIDI Lanes like Audio Lanes”
Done.
Perhaps you would be good enough to hit the link above and vote for this.
Cheers
I’m all out of votes but I’ll bump the thread in a few days
Cheers
Any idea when you are allowed more votes?
no clue, ask @steve
Seems you get more the more times you visit the forums or comment.
So some half baked idiot who keeps turning up here with nothing better to do and no brain will end up being able to vote for loads, whereas a contented highly able technically literate user who gets on a produces music every day and only visits occasionally, gets virtually no votes or therefore say.
Genius. Utter genius. NOT!!
Really not much wonder that important things keep getting ignored by Steinberg when this is the system to inform them of problems and requirements.
I think Steinberg likely has a list of working and high level producers they stay in direct contact with on a personal level, so that’s covered.
Why bother with these forums at all then?
Just a PR exercise?
I feel so valued 
To troubleshoot, get help, share tips, report bugs, and to give feature requests… Good pragmatic well thought out feature requests get added into the program from the forum all the time, I’ve had some of my own added as well as many bugs fixed within one or two updates.
Doesn’t seem to work for some things - longstanding, important bugs which get overlooked time and time again, with development hours going into stuff which the marketing people want, while those who have already purchased struggle on with workarounds.
Ah well. Just seems it could be done so much better with very little extra effort.
I can’t believe this is an issue in Cubase. Quick lane takes and comping is integral to my composition workflow. Just make an option so previous lanes don’t play back when recording a new land in stacked mode. Seems obvious. It’s how everyone else does it.
The way it’s setup now. You don’t have the freedom to start a comp and record a new lane to comp into that section. Because you need to mute all the comped regions first so they don’t play back while you track the next. All that work is lost. So dumb. I was so close to purchasing Cubase. but… I might have to go in another direction. I believe in you Stienberg team!
Well considering it’s over 5 years since I asked for this important change, it seems they simply either don’t care, don’t understand, or have already spent the dev budget on fruity new headline gimmicks for the marketing dept.
I mean it’s kinda fundamental isn’t it - looped recording with automuting of previous takes. It just doesn’t work at all in Cubase in MIDI. I realise it’s probably harder to implement for midi, dealing with note-offs at the loop point to keep it ‘tidy’, but this is the kind of thing Cubase should be able to do, as other vendors have already done.
Ya, unfortunately I’m probably going to let my cubase trial expire. This is a glaring omission that is so crucial for my workflow. Such a shame because the mixing, DOP workflow was really starting to click for me.
I’ve been putting a lot of hours into customizing reaper to do all these things and more. The midi editor is very flexible once you dive in and set it up. It even lets you create multiple comp lanes. The options are staggering. If by some miracle they fix it before my trial expires i’ll stick around.
Wow.! I’m reading this and can’t hardly believe it… have always been under the impression that MIDI/editing was ‘king’ in Cubase. How do folk cope with comping multiple midi ‘takes’ right now.? There has to be some workarounds, right.?
Is Cubase the exception - how are other DAW’s like with this workflow.?
Just sat here a little gobsmacked frankly.
(you’ve probably already guessed, I’m no MIDI guy at all - primarily working with live concert audio, production/mixing/mastering/delivering)
Some time ago I postet a request to have the same recording options for audio and midi.
It does not make any sense that those are different. It could be done, but they simply dont do it. Dont know why, though.