Aloha P,
In all my years of using Cubase I have not seen non-destructive MIDI.
1-Not nearly the same as non-destruct but there is a feature called:
‘Retrospect Recording’ where you can get back a short period of time of MIDI played into Cubase while not recording.
Not sure if it works while recording but probably not.
Check page 128 in the manual.
_Retrospective Record
This feature allows you to capture any MIDI notes you play in Stop mode or during playback and turn them into a MIDI part “after the fact”. This is possible due to the fact that Cubase can capture MIDI input in buffer memory, even when not recording.
Proceed as follows:
- Enable the “Retrospective Record”option in the Preferences dialog (Record–MIDI page).
This activates the buffering of MIDI input, making Retrospective Record possible. - Make sure a MIDI track is record-enabled.
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When you have played some MIDI material you want to capture (eitherinStop mode or during playback), select Retrospective Record from the Transport menu (or use the key command, by default [Shift]-Num_[*]).
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2-Using ‘Reset Quantize’ you can take a MIDI note(s) back to it’s original recorded quantize position.
3-Perhaps the Cubase ‘Auto Save’ feature could work in your favor in this regard.
Other than those examples, I don’t know of a way to retrieve previously recorded MIDI data.
Perhaps someone else could chime in on this.
Good Luck.
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