When starting recording, recording focus jumps to different track

Cubase
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Hi everybody

I experience a behaviour (since ever) where I am not sure, whether I just am missing a setting. It seems like a feature, but I do not want that.

I do these steps:

  • I edit a part in track A (for example adjusting MIDI notes), then I close the Editor (lower zone)
  • obviously that part is still “selected” in the track overview
  • into track B, I now want to record MIDI events via master keyboard
  • so I select track B
  • then I press RECORD
  • the metronome counts in
  • after counting in, the selection of track B changes to track A and the recording starts
  • my recording is recorded to track A (but I wanted track B)

If I would NOT have had the MIDI part in track A selected, everything would have worked as expected. So, if I unselect the part in track A before I do the above steps for recording to track B, all is fine.

So far, so good.
But: I do not always want to remember to unselect a part in another track. I want to always record to THAT track, which I select before recording.

Is this a preference which I cannot identify?

Thanks in advance.

Kind regards

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I would say that the Preferences > Editing > Track Selection Follows Event Selection setting could be involved, but it’s not the case, on my end : even with this option ticked, the recording is done on track B, as long as track A is not Record Enabled.

Other settings that maybe could help are the Preferences > Editing > Project & MixConsole > Enable Record on Selected MIDI/Audio Track ones. If not, I would try to restart Cubase in Safe Mode, using the Disable program preference option.

EDIT - I forgot to use the count-in, in the whole process, but even when activated (1 bar), Cubase (14.0.10 Pro - what is yours, by the way ?) behaves as I would expect, here : no focus change after count-in, and the MIDI part is created only on track B.

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Thanks, cubic13, for your response.
After you wrote, that everything seems to work for you, I did lots of tests.

I have to admit, that in most cases, everything worked as expected. But it also failed for three times (like I described above).
Unfortunately, I could not find out the reason. I tried to reproduce it, and could not succeed in a reliable way. It seemed to happen in a non-deterministic way.

The closest I got was:

  • record in track A, then stop
  • record again in track A, then stop
  • make sure, that the last recording part in track A remains selected
  • select track B
  • press record
  • focus jumps to track A and record goes to track A

But as written, I cannot always reproduce that. (only ca. 5% of my tests).

What makes it more complex and maybe confused me:

  • without focusing on that matter, I sometimes selected a track by clicking on it, and sometimes by pressing the arrows up and down
  • without focusing on that matter, I sometimes started the recording by clicking the record button in Cubase, and sometimes the REC button on my NI Komplete S49

So I need to do more tests and will keep you updated once it is reliably reproducable.

And you are right:

  • Count In does not seem to impact on this
  • the preferences settings seem to be correct on my system and do what they promise.

I was and am using Cubase 14.0.10 Pro.

Kind regards