Question on UNDO.

When I edit, of course I can back up with undo...however, it seems it's always a complete list backwards, so if I have done something I want to keep in track one, but the thing I want undone is before that in track 3.... well I'm screwed.... or I have to find a work around which I have done in the past. 

Is there any way to undo changes/edits in just ONE track  and leave all the other edits in the other tracks alone? As long as I have been working with cake DAW's I should know this.... but it's really never been a big issue until yesterday when I had to find a way around loosing a halfway decent take to undo an edit before that take. 

Undo basically returns you to an an earlier state, reversing everything that's been done since that point. Trying to implement a selective undo would create a potentially infinite number of logical problems with interdependent edits that would be impossible for a programmer to anticipate and manage.

The undo/ redo History used to have a drop down timeline in the menu that would do just that.

If "just that" means undo everything back to some point, Edit > History still allows that. But it was never possible to undo single edits before the most recent one.

brundlefly

The undo/ redo History used to have a drop down timeline in the menu that would do just that.

If "just that" means undo everything back to some point, Edit > History still allows that. But it was never possible to undo single edits before the most recent one.

I see what you're saying, that would be a nice feature.

Each edit is a separate  point like dots on a time line.... 

for example  what I did was delete a clip in a guitar track and at the same time, had the track view down a bit so some tracks were above the top of the screen.  I did not realize that the entire vocal track was also selected...and blissfully ignorant of that fact clicked "delete".  A few more edits/takes to get the guitar solo clip right.... OK.... since the vocal was not in the solo, I had no idea to this point that it was gone. 

now I clicked playback..... before the solo, no vox.... OMG!.... checked the track it's empty. 

I had to go back about 12 undo's to get the vox track back..... then.... try to remember all the edits I did between that one and where I was supposed to be at....  Before I did the "undo" to 12 steps back I copied the solo first. 

Having a drop down list of the last 20 edits would be a handy thing. 

I know I have not seen it in MC, but being new to X1 I figured it might have been in there and I just didn't know it....

Hey Bakers..... are you listening on this ?


Beagle I can see what you're saying IF the edits are on the same section or clip and make progressive changes..... but on something totally unrelated should not be a problem.  I was working on track 12 and accidentally deleted track 1 audio so to be able to undo that from a list should be easy..... 


Fortunately, I'm usually a bit more cautious than that..... but...it could have been a real disaster loosing that track.