Undo only once?

[dannymix]

Can anyone tell me why there is only one undo in cubase?
In most Art programs you can select how many undos you want
depending on HD room and memory.
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To clear up my last question regarding (Audio Recording)
What I should have said was that, I want to record from a
audio sample CD from FM using my cd rom with the cubase
cd player. Somtimes even if I start recording in cubase
first and then play the cd, cubase dosent record anythink?
But if I play the cd first it does.

Somtimes cubase starts recording for the first 2-3 sec of
audio and even if the cd is playing and cubase is still
showing its recording the signal ant being recorded.

I dont know what its called but the little black flashing
block on the track is moving only for the first 2-3 sec
and then stops?

When I play it back it plays the 2-3 sec it recorded.

Sorry for any confusion!

 

[Emeric]

Yes, you can only undo once. Why? no idea, maybe Steinberg wants you to purchase Neuendo instead - it does have unlimited undo as well as many other interesting features.

I don't understand "from FM using my cd rom with the cubase
cd player". But I get what your trying to do. The left right markers are set to more than 3 seconds? I think someone else suggested using an audio ripper instead. Windac comes to mind. With this you could just rip the wav of the audio CD and then use the import function to get it back in Cubase.

 

[dannymix]

Thanks EMERIC.

sory! FM meaning Future Music CD.

 

[JimH]

Multiple undo is not an easy feature to add to an existing software program. It's something that really needs to be built into a program from the beginning. Since multiple undo was not in Cubase at an early stage in its development, it gets harder to add it later.

If you think about implementing multiple undo, it can be rather complicated. There are a couple of ways to do it. One way is to somehow store the state, or a copy, of the thing you want to change before you make the change. Then to undo, you put back the original one. If you're changing audio, this can take up a lot of space. For each step of undo, you need to save the thing you've changed. When you want to backup, you need to apply the changes in reverse order.

The other way to handle multiple undo is, instead of saving the state of the thing, you must build the program so that each command has a complimentary command that will undo it. For example, if you want to do an "add" command to add something, all you need to undo the "add" is to perform a "delete" command on the same thing you added. So instead of saving the whole state of the thing, you just have to remember to perform a "delete" to undo what you did. This is difficult because you need to make sure every command has a complimentary command. Sometimes that doesn't make sense in the context of what you're doing.

Sorry for the long-winded answer. You caught me after a cup of coffee so I tend to run on.

Jim