So let’s say I’m making a 4-bar loop… I record kicks on first pass, snares on second pass, percussion on third pass—but oops I mess up and want to delete what I just recorded on the third pass. How do I do this without stopping the sequencer? I tried using cmd-z (undo) but that only works if you stop the sequencer first. I want to be able to hit one button and undo the last pass. How can I do this?
Hi,
I expect you are talking about audio recording, right?
If you record in a loop and you make the takes, you are recording only 1 long file in fact. Just Cubase presents it as 3 takes for you. Therefore it’s not possible to undo it. You have to stop playback/record, select and delete the take.
If you refer to MIDI recording - you can’t.
Sorry I should’ve specified. Yes I am referring to MIDI recording. I want the ability to delete my last cycle of recording in real time. This could be a game changer creative tool. Let’s say you’re cycle recording a beat manually playing (as opposed to step sequencing)…
Record the kick pattern
Record the snare pattern
Record the high hat pattern–wait I don’t like that, hit a [hypothetical “redo last cycle” button]
Record a different hi hat pattern
As it stands if I record a hit hat pattern I don’t like, I have to stop the sequencer, undo, restart recording, etc. In terms of the creative process, it’s a creativity killer. When you’re in the groove and grooving you just want to keep grooving.
I personally would love to have this feature
You can add the tag Feature-Request to your topic and try to rally more people behind this idea, so that they vote for it.
Activate the Transport’s Re-Record mode, and MIDI Stacked (no mute) record mode. Hit the record button while cycle recording.
this sounds cool. Not exactly sure how it works, but I am certainly willing to test it out. Thanks.
Hmm
Im VERY sure (could be wrong) but Im sure this was previously possible when I first started on the atari; you could undo just the last loop.
This was a big deal back in the day because it kept everything real time and stopped the left brain interference
I havent done midi for a long time but just ressurecting a lot of old hardware instead of plugins and yeah, this is very annoying when doing EDM etc with feel ie no hard quantise and just wanting the unedited feel, sometimes takes a while to dial into it. I dont want to edit…I just want to record it…like the old days 
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Yes there was really really handy functionality which they have removed a long time ago and I have Missed it ever since, totally dynamic and Lively way to make grooves and such.
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Yeah…taking out musical features…like real musical feature…just doesnt make sense