Looping takes go out of sync MIDI to AUDIO

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Hello. We are trying to record V-drum Midi and Audio at the same time, looping short segments like a verse. For a specific example, we are looping an intro segment 4 times . If we stop in the middle of the 4th loop, the Midi lane 4 remains with the partial midi but the audio lane 4 deletes the entire partial WAV. Now the Midi has 4 lanes, the midi ending with Take 4.

The audio has only 3 lanes and WAV takes, with Audio ending in take 3.

There is now one more MIDI take (albeit truncated) than Audio.

When we resume looping, the take numbers no longer match up. The first MIDI take is MIDI take 5 but the first Audio take is take 4.

Is there a way the avoid this and make sure the takes match when looping?

Thanks

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Hi,

There is a rule for this. If I’m not mistaken, If you stop the take recording after the half of the take length, the audio is the last take remains too.

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That’s good to know if true, thanks. But often when looping you just go until you think you have a good take. Usually that means stopping shortly after the next loop has started. That will be a hard habit to break. Hopefully there is a setting that can be tweaked for this.

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Do you know if it is possible to tell Cubase how many times to loop and then stop? The idea / hope being if the recording stops at the end of a lane, it would be a clean cutoff and keep the take #'s consistent.

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Hi,

No, this is not possible.

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