Currently, “hide automation” (single track) and “hide all automation” behave differently. It has been this way for the 10+ years I have been using Cubase and so it is clearly a design decision and not a bug. For me, it makes no sense at all.
It works like this:
If I have three lanes of automation in view that I have ordered in a specific way, I can “hide automation” for that track to collapse them out of view. When I “show automation” for the track, the three lanes reappear in the same order that I left them. Perfect. This makes total sense.
However, if I use the “hide all automation” function to quickly close all automation lanes in my project, it’s not the same. When I then “show automation” on a track, instead of showing me the previously displayed automation lanes, it has now defaulted back to the single volume lane (even if it contains no automation). I then have to select the automation lanes I want to view and reorder them again to get back to the last configuration.
This makes no sense to me at all. Surely the point of the “hide all automation” feature is to quickly “hide automation” but for every track? Why would I want to totally reset every automation lane’s visibility (when they are next opened) in my project?
It’s very frustrating as someone who uses a ton of automation and likes to carefully reorder and resize them. It means that if I want to hide all automation lanes across the various tracks in my project, I have to go through and hide them one track at a time. Or, accept that I will have to re-show, size and order the automation lanes I want to see when I next open them. I often have lots of automation open on different tracks at once to see what is going overall, and the “hide all automation” would be super helpful if it just behaved the same as “hide automation”, but applied to all tracks.
I assume the logic is that “show all used automation” shows lanes with data on, even if they weren’t in view before. “hide all automation” is, I guess, doing supposedly the opposite and permanently reseting all automation lane visibility.
While I can kiiiind of understand the logic behind this, why would anyone want that function? Surely it would be so much more useful if it behaved how I think it should? I’m guessing I could set up a logical editor/macro command to do what I’m suggesting, but I really can’t understand why it isn’t the default behaviour.
If this behaviour is something other people want/use intentionally, I’m genuinely curious! If it is a functionality people actually want, it would make a lot more sense to call it “reset automation visibility”, and have “hide all automation” do what I suggested, so that there is continuity with “hide automation” of a single track.
Cubase 14 has some amazing (and long overdue) features, and overall Steinberg did a great job this time. But, as a lot of people seem to agree, over the last few years, smaller improvements seem to be getting overlooked for shiny new features.
I love Cubase, and things like the new modulators have eased my fears that it will get left behind by trying to be too “traditional”, but don’t forget about the little things that are what make Cubase the best DAW.
Still not having an undo function for VST Instruments (and not even providing them in your own instruments like Padshop!), for example, is insane. But anywaaayyy, that’s for a different feature request. 
Thanks in advance for anyone’s thoughts/suggestions/input!
