Hey y’all, so I just laid down a long MIDI track without apparently pressing the Record button. I go to Transport, but Retrospective MIDI Record is greyed out…it’s checked in my preferences, and I have a rather large buffer set for it, so what’s the deal?
If you want to use the Retrospective Record, you have to have a MIDI or an Instrument track in the project. The Record Enable button has to be enabled first. Only in this case is the MIDI data passing thru to Cubase, and you can catch them afterwards by using Retrospective record.
To clarify you don’t need to have a Track Write Enabled while you are playing (but you can). However in order for the Retrospectively recorded data to get inserted onto the Track then you need to have a Track Record Enabled - which tells Cubase which Track to put the data on.
No, you do. I just did that a few days ago. I think it must always be saving a buffer of whatever MIDI is coming in. I’ll play around with it a bit when I’m at Cubase.
Ha, Raino, you’re right. Only for printing the midi to the track is a record-enabled midi track needed. Just tried it with no tracks in the project at all. Kind of cool, and seriously on point for the feature.
It works fine for me too, the Retrospective Record button in the Toolbar is supposed to stay active all the time because it works differently than the dedicated field in the Track Inspector.
This global button records all incoming MIDI activity from all MIDI inputs, and its buffer does not clear out after 30 seconds. Instead it will only clear out after pasting the data on a track and when new data is inputted subsequently.
In the Track Inspector however, it just records the MIDI input of the track, and it can only be pasted on that same track.
Have you tried starting Cubase with clean preferences ?