Weird glitch in Cubase 12, going back in time

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Long time Cubase user here. Started around Cubase 3 so not my first rodeo.

Anyways, I’ll be working in Cubase 12 doing my thing and then a sudden glitch and it’s like I’m going back in my timeline like 10 steps, sequences all of a sudden gone, newly made tracks or plugins vanished and it’s like what the heck? I then click through the redo button a bunch of times and everything back but any ideas as to what is triggering?

Happens maybe once every 15/30 minutes so not too easy to duplicate.

Maybe it’s in sync with autosave? I dunno.

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Is there a chance you have a remote control that’s inadvertently triggering “undo” commands?

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I do have a faderport hooked up. Never did it in past but maybe software getting outdated (it’s the old version)

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When it happens, if you go into the Edit History can you see and restore the lost work?

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Yes, it’s like it jumped back magically a bunch of steps in the timeline.

Very sporadic though. Didn’t happen at all yesterday, but did the day before.

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I like @Nico5 's theory.

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To expand on my theory: :nerd_face:

The “undo” command can be triggered via

  • Key Commands
  • MIDI remote control

So the suspects can include

  • hardware sending MIDI messages - if the hardware is connected via one or more of

    • the MIDI Remote
    • the Generic Remote
    • Mackie Control
    • a component in the Cubase Components folder

  • some other software sending MIDI messages (via a midi loopback program)

  • hardware sending keystrokes

    • Elgato StreamDeck
    • a malfunctioning computer keyboard
    • mis-configured custom keyboard shortcut settings in the operating system or other keystroke utilities
      • AutoHotKey (Windows)
      • PowerToys (Windows)
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