Can you automate the state of a track or vst

Cubase
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As a longtime cubase user, I had a brief trip to ableton and noticed a few things. while cubase excelled in most things - the one thing I liked about ableton was the ability to automate the state of audio effects and clips. Essentially using automation to seamlessly turn tracks on and off and record different VSTs in one go with no start and stop in between. This was done by automating the “state” of things. either with controller input or using the IAC driver (LoopBE1 for windows) to live loop. I know cubase can automate volume, pan , filters etc, but does cubase have any way to use automation for recording?

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Hi,

The Record Enable button is not automatable in Cubase.

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I can get everything working just as I want only the record button flashes and goes off.
I just add a single midi track and select send one to VST1 and send 2 to VST 2 etc. Midi tracks have the option of automating sends with on and off messages. When I press play and start playing on my keyboard it will automatically switch VSTs seamlessly at the appropriate moments that I have set up - no inputs required. great for live playing, cant figure out why the record option is disabled.

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Hi,

You could also use MIDI Remote and virtual MIDI Port.

From a MIDI Track you can send the relevant MIDI data out to the virtual MIDI Port, which would send the data back to Cubase, which would process the data as MIDI Remote to control Cubase. This way, you can automate Cubase functions/commands.

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Great idea - I must try that! My feature request for the future would be for cubase to add a “control track” that would control the overall state of plugins and effects - and maybe even allow individual tracks to have different loop points. ie drums play two bars and loop while the rest of the tracks loop between markers - but I digress…ha.

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Another idea that also works it to assign different VST inputs to different midi channels. Then add midi transformers to your midi track. ie slot 1 change all to CH1, slot 2 change all to CH2 etc. Then automate the on/off of the individual transformers as the track plays.