I’m on Cubase 14 and for some reason, it seems that I cannot get my Midi track to NOT being armed with recording whenever I click on a Midi event. I’ve tried to change this behaviour in the settings, but it simply does not have an affect. Is this a bug or is there a way to disable Midi tracks being armed with recording whenever I click/open a Midi event? I’ve made sure “record” is disabled in the midi editor, but that didn’t change anything.
It’s not only annoying having to deselect “record” every time, but CPU gets REALLY high or even overload when I have a big plugin chain on a VST instrument, making everything unstable until I deselected “record”.
there is two settings in the preferences you might want to to check:
Editing->track selection follows event selection (this auto-selects a track when you click on a MIDI part).
Editing->Project&Mix Console->Enable Record on selected MIDI track
Thanks for your reply! I have those settings set accordingly, but whenever I double click on an event to open the key editor, it will still automatically enable record.
There has to be a way to disable this. Any other suggestions?
If it helps there is no need to click the record button to disable record, if you simply triple click the event instead of double it will be turned on then immediately off.
Thanks for chiming in. I don’t exactly understand what you mean by triple clicking the event. In order to open the editor, I need to double-click the event. A third click doesn’t do anything in my case, unfortunately.
I can’t remember how this was in older versions, but I’m sure it would have bothered me back then as well, so I reckon this might be new in Cubase 14?
Either way, this must be something that can be changed. I don’t want every MIDI track to be armed with record simply because I want to edit MIDI notes.
Exactly what it sounds like clicking three times, the double click opens editor which arms record, the third click disarms it. Mouse hasn’t moved from over the event.
That’s how it works here (W11, C14)
Actually there seems to be something buggy going on, I checked in C13 (same behaviour), then reopened 14 and now it doesn’t even record arm when double click. I had checked and may have changed one of the following prefs but perhaps they didn’t fully take till restart.
Project and Mixconsole/enable record on selected midi track
Editing/Edit Solo/Record in MIDI Editors follow focus.
Wow, that’s weird! I guess this must be connected to a setting in the preferences then, because a third click doesn’t do anything here. I haven’t mentioned before that my editor always opens in a new window because I don’t use the lower section of the project window for editing tasks.
I now understand. Yes, the triple click works now, but “record” still gets enabled every time I click into the editor and it’s not really something I want to get used to. But thanks anyway for the input!
I’m pretty sure MIDI tracks should not always be armed when opening editors or at least it doesn’t make sense that this behaviour cannot be changed. Steinberg, anyone?
As I said…I have changed the behaviour…and now double clicking the event opens midi editor but doesn’t arm record exactly as you want…only problem being I’m not sure how I did it and so far haven’t been able to reverse it again.
I went back into C13 which was still record arming and unticked Edit Solo/Record in MIDI Editors follow focus hit OK and it still did it, then went back to prefs and unticked it, ticked it again, hit apply rather than OK, then ok to exit prefs and boom…no more record arm in midi editor.
…also if you close the MIDI editor, then double click the event again?
: ))
EDIT: So the workaround would be to minimize the editor window instead of closing it. Now I need to see if there is a shortcut for “minimize window” instead of “close window”… :_)
I have tried every possible combination of the two preference settings using “apply” and “OK”, always restarting. No luck. It must be a bug or there must be another setting somewhere that I still haven’t found after hours of checking.
Just for a sanity check…here is my config, if you import this in profile manager and activate it does it make it work? Obviously you may not want my other preferences but will be interesting to see if its something in prefs we’re missing. (Had to zip it or forum won’t allow it) MIDI.zip (592 Bytes)
Obviously be sure to save your own profile first so you can restore it.
This is an interesting workaround, which works only if:
The Editor opens in the Lower Zone while double-click and the newly opened Key Editor doesn’t hide the the MIDI Part in the Project Window.
Or the Key Editor opens in the new window, which is on other screen.
What does it really do is, it opens the Key Editor and put the focus back into the Project window. But once you click to the Key Editor, the focus is there and the Record becomes enabled again.
If you don’t want this, just disable the Record in Editor (in the given Key Editor).
Grim, thanks for sending that over. I’ve tried your profile, but still had the issue. Went into preferences, made all the changes as discussed, tried various combinations and tried them all with all combinations of “apply” and/or “OK” - nothing worked…!
