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Recording
About overlap and the Audio Record Modes
The Audio Record Mode setting lets you decide what
happens to your recording and to any existing events on
the track where you are recording. This is necessary be-
cause you will not always record on an empty track. There
may be situations where you record over existing events –
especially in cycle mode.
To select an Audio Record Mode, proceed as follows:
1. On the Transport panel, click the audio symbol in the
upper left section.
2. Activate the desired option.
The following options are available:
3. Click anywhere outside the panel to close the Audio
Record Mode panel.
Handling overlapping audio
The basic rule for audio tracks is that each track can only
play back a single audio event at a time. If two or more
events overlap, you will only hear one of them: the one that
is actually visible (e.
g. the last lap of a cycle recording).
If you have a track with overlapping (stacked) events/re-
gions, use one of the following methods to select the
event/region that is played back:
• Open the context menu for the audio event in the event
display and select the desired event or region from the “To
Front” or “Set to Region” submenu.
The available options depend on whether you performed a linear or a cy-
cle recording and the record mode you used. When recording audio in
cycle mode, the recorded event is divided in regions, one for each take.
• Use the handle in the middle of a stacked event and se-
lect an entry from the pop-up menu that appears.
Recovery of audio recordings after system
failure
Normally, when a computer crashes, all changes made to
your current project since you last saved it will be lost.
Usually, there is no quick and easy way to recover your
work.
With Cubase, when your system crashes while you are re-
cording (because of a power cut or other mishap), you will
find that your recording is still available, from the moment
when you started recording to the time when your com-
puter crashed.
When you experience a computer crash during a record-
ing, simply relaunch the system and check the project re-
cord folder (by default this is the Audio subfolder inside
the project folder). It should contain the audio file you
were recording at the time of the crash.
Option Description
Keep History Existing events (or portions of events) that are over-
lapped by a new recording are kept.
Cycle History +
Replace
Existing events (or portions of events) that are over-
lapped by a new recording are replaced by the new
recording.
However, if you record in cycle mode, all takes from
the current cycle recording are kept.
Replace Existing events (or portions of events) that are over-
lapped by a new recording are replaced by the last re-
corded take.
Click here…
…to open the Audio
Record Mode panel.
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This feature does not constitute an “overall” guaran-
tee by Steinberg. While the program itself was im-
proved in such a way that audio recordings can be
recovered after a system failure, it is always possible
that a computer crash, power cut, etc. might have
damaged another component of the computer, mak
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ing it impossible to save or recover any of the data.
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Please do not try to actively bring about this kind of
situation to test this feature. Although the internal
program processes have been improved to cope
with such situations, Steinberg cannot guarantee
that other parts of the computer are not damaged as
a consequence.