There used to be a time when Cubase tracked plugin parameter changes in the undo history, just like it does for the MixConsole. For example, I could tweak a filter cutoff, attack, or decay on a synth, and then undo those moves from the history list.
This got removed in an update because it was flagged as a bug, but honestly, that was my favorite bug ever, and I’m pretty sure bringing it back would make a lot of people happy.
It could either live in the same history as before, or as a separate tab called “Plugin History.”
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Undo of 3rd party VST plugins is possible in Cubase… as long as they are effect plugins. Only VST Instruments are not supported by the undo system since version 13.
@Johnny_Moneto how?
I just opened a blank project and added one audio track in the project window. I used Pro-Q 4 as an insert.
I randomly moved an EQ point (made a low shelf).
If I use CMD + Z the entire track is undone, plugin and all - gone. History only shows one action. ‘Add Track’.
If I Redo ‘Add Track’ Pro-Q comes with it…
I have some plugins that have their own undo, but that is part of the plugin feature set, not Cubase.
I’ve learned to live with this… but I’d love to have more comprehensive (and consistent) undo actions. Is there a preference I need to enable?
Cubase has several independent undo stacks.
Cmd + Z is by default for the project undo.
Opt + Z is for the MixConsole undo. In Cubase’s logic plugins reside in the MixConsole. You need to use this one.
Additionally there is a zoom undo, a visibility undo, and… quantize undo.
Open the Key Commands dialog and search for “undo”. That should give you a nice list of what’s available.
I was hoping for a linear history… i.e. undo last action - without having to be in a specific view.
It’s kind of maddening that one must remember that to undo the last change (in this example the low shelf in Pro-Q 4) one must migrate away from the Project window (where the last parameter change was made) to the Mixconsole window to undo said change… otherwise one will undo a completely different change.
At least no one can ever accuse Cubase of being simple. They should rename ‘History’ in the Edit menu to ‘Multiverse’
You don´t have to be in the mixconsole window to undo a mixconsole change.
Just try it: Move a fader in the mixconsole window, close it, undo the change via option-z as Johnny suggested, reopen the mixconsole and check if the undo was executed.
Yeah I was speaking to the GUI buttons… and just the natural (at this point in my life) notion that undo is CMD + Z.
Opt - Z works… and will be good to know in the future - after I forget, redo, and then get it right dozens of times over the next few months
Still, it would be nice if it could be uniform/standard. I’m still in the stage of grief where I haven’t found a reason why undoing my last edit the same way I have millions of times in hundreds of applications is better in zones and separated out in Cubase, but I’m sure I’ll get there.
