Hello All,
Cubase 12 Pro
I’m working on a old tune that I’m improving and re-recording all of the difference instruments of a song that I wrote in the 90s. During this process I had a new idea on the piano that sounded great. So great that I want to find a place to fit it into the new recording of this old song. So I played it on the piano then I recording a bass on a different track. When I came back to the piano I went to go play that “great” part again and I forgot it! The problem is I played some other stuff in between so if I “Insert as linear recording” it pastes the piano I just played rather than the piano part I played before recording the bass. Is there a log/list or history in Cubase that I can get to the new piano part that I played 3 minutes before I played the bass part or is it gone now that I played a few things after?
Unfortunately there is no log or saved buffer of former notes you played in retrospective recording. Once a former session has been replace by a new one the last one is gone.
That’s how it was designed to work and actually the main purpose of this tool! “To capture these special latest notes you forgot to record”. Not for you to rely on it to record everything you even did within this session of using Cubase.
If you want to be sure to be able to recall everything you played? Always use (cycle, for different versions) record what you play to be sure it’s captured!
Retrospective record is basically only meant as a ‘last resort’ to retrieve the last recording you forgot to record and is not meant as a tool for you to rely upon to recall everything you played during this entire session in Cubase.
Thanks guys, Honestly that’s what I thought because there is no mention of it in the manual and I couldn’t find anything about a log or history of the Retro record. I’ve only used this feature once about a year ago but as you know, I wasn’t recording because I wasn’t working on the piano but the bass. So in between bass takes I went to the piano…discovered something cool in a different way I was playing the lead line…recorded a bass take and then forgot what I played on the piano. The things is, I was trying to remember what I played on the piano…which ironically was the reason why I didn’t have what I played the first time when dumping the Retro Record data. Oh well. It taught me a lesson. When I have an idea, record it right then and there!
Thank you guys for your input and suggestions. Very much appreciated.
Chris