ok so.. when i accidentally click-and-drag a group track volume value to a random point (while working in arrangement), the undo/mix undo does not revert back to where the original value was.
is this by design or is this a bug? i’m on the latest cubase 13
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There has been threads about this behavior in the past. Unfortunately we don’t know. To me it looks like an oversight.
From what I heard Steinberg claims that this is by design - and users think this is a poor design.
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Wow! Never heard/read that it was intended to work this way. Would love to hear a representative argue the benefit of not being able to fully undo an action.
“By design” can have two meanings:
- the design is deemed to be superior to the requested design; or it what requested more often than any other design
- an issue is a consequence of a design that was done several years ago and this particular point was not under consideration at that time; the current design does not allow the desired feature
I think in this case it is the latter. I assume when Steinberg designed this area of Nuendo/Cubase they simply missed this point (there can be a dozend or more things to be considered for each new development). Maybe it cannot be changed so easily now, as it would mean to change some of the core of the software.
All of this is just an assumption, of course, but I don’t see anybody thinking that the missing undo is a good idea.
Sounds to me like one way to define a bug 
If it sounds to you like the definition of a bug or the definition of a tug or a mug - all would be equally wrong.
Mmmm… No. “By design” imply that a function or behavior was intended.
You are free to believe what you want.
Indeed. I am basing my opinion on decades long experience as a design engineer in an English speaking country.
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Yeeeeah. This alt-z undo is very unreliable. Sometimes it undoes fader moves and sometimes it decides it doesn’t and end I up undoing some other change I made…Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
The Cubase devs are encouraging us to get it right first time so that we don’t have to use Undo?
Timo Say: “Rest not your mind on undo, or redo. Look instead on what is yet to be do.”
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