Back at Cubase 12.0.20, I reported an issue with take lane handling:
Unfortunately, that issue is still present in Cubase 12.0.70. To refresh, my process for recording lead vocals is to loop through the whole song (or at least enough of it to cover the start and end of the vocal), do exactly three takes, stop the transport after doing the third take in that pass, save the file, take a little break, then repeat the process as many times as needed (e.g. depending on how well I know the song, how many times I screwed up in the earlier takes, how warmed up my voice has gotten, etc.).
After the first round of takes, everything looks normal. However, with each successive round, the first take in that round appears to be missing. For example, today I did 4 rounds, for a total of 12 takes, and here is the result:
The takes actually do exist (thankfully – the first time I saw this I panicked, but I’m somewhat used to it now, though it doesn’t happen 100% of the time, and I’ve never figured out the logic for when it does and doesn’t).
After cleaning up lanes, the missing takes do appear, but the order is very strange:
In particular, the first take of each round after the first shows up near the top of the lanes, with the most recent first take in a round being at the top, the one after that being next, and so on. And the lanes with the missing takes still show up as being empty, only with new lane numbers.
While I can drag the lanes around to get the takes in the correct order (kind of important because of considerations of how warmed up I was, where I was in the song learning curve, etc.), the lane numbers stay messed up:
Also, after I save the project, close it, then reopen it, the take order goes back to being messed up (albeit without the extra blank lanes that it had after the cleanup lanes):
Very frustrating.
FWIW, this is on Windows 10 (fully updated).