Track Versions For Automation & VSTis

Cubase
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Track Versions are a big -meh- for me. If I were a true recording engineer (acquisition) I’d be more excited. But I do MIDI orchestrations -and- audio and very little of it is done in a linear way, ie…

  1. Record Everything on Monday
  2. Mix on Tuesday.

That’s not how I roll.

What I -really- need is not so much Mixer Undo (which is a super-popular F/R) but rather… a snapshot of the entire VSTi automation. IOW: A Track Version for VSTis.

Eg. I record a B4 performance. It’s MIDI, but it’s also got tons of drawbar changes, expression, leslie on/off. I want to be able to do 10 takes and have all those changes recorded as V1, V2, V3. etc.

This would actually be MUCH more valuable to me than a Mixer Undo because an Undo is a one-way deal. But a whole performance (ie. 10 Track Versions of all the parameter changes) that I can see and then edit each automation point individually? MAN, WOULD THAT BE GREAT!

2

Are the drawbar changes, expression, leslie on/off etc being controlled by MIDI CC?

3

In some cases yes. In others eg. Guitar rig, no. My point is that a track version doesn’t help if it doesn’t include all automation of the performance.

I’m on jury duty woo hoo! Hang em high

4

Wow- Guitar Rig can’t be sent CC to control all it’s parameters. Odd.

You gonna wait till the trial’s over to do that?

5

The whole point of this thread is that, as it stands track versions don’t record what I would consider tone a complete PERFORMANCE… Which should include all automation, either midi or audio.

Man, thumb typing is for the birds. GUILTY!