B. J. U.

Thanks for the resonse . @Promidi  Your issue is different than mine.  (I don't experience your issue). 

After a bit more RTFM I can find nowhere in the docs that says the "Use Paste Special Options on Paste" when checked will cause to options dialog to pop on Ctrl-V (i.e. "Ask every time").  I did however find that using Ctrl-Alt-V (and Ctrl-Alt-C) instead does in fact "Ask every time".  Problem solved.

(This must be a feature change that occurred over the years because I know I used to depend on that through the Home Studio / Cakewalk / Sonar eras.)

Simple question. This seems broken.  When I set Preferences | Customizaton| Editing | "Use Paste Special Options on Paste" it has no effect with CTRL-V (Paste).

  When I toggle it I can see the registry setting change back and forth but the editor seems to just ignore this setting.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Cakewalk Music Software\Cakewalk\Core->UsePasteSpecialOptionsOnPaste

Anyone else experience this?  Am I missing something?  Known bug?

Thanks

[Updated]
I see this nearly identical post from December 2020 that went unanswered so I'll rephrase my question(s).  Does anybody else on this forum use comp recording within a loop for MIDI?  Is it possible?  If not, is it a bug?  I see nothing in the online help to indicate this is supported for only audio tracks.  (Note: Using Auto Punch with "Mute Previous Takes" selected has no effect).

[Update 2]
I've determined this only happens when using Auto-Punch.  With Auto-Punch off I get expected results.  I submitted a support incident (#615702) for this issue.

[Original post]
When I try to do comp loop recording with any MIDI instrument (soft synth or external) I can't seem to figure out why it won't mute the previously recorded take(s) while recording a new take - i.e. all previous takes play while new take is recording.  My record options are set to "Comping" and "Takes Create New Lane".  I've armed the "Track" not a take lane (though I've tried numerous combinations).

Note: I have no trouble comp loop recording audio where everything works as expected so I'm wondering what I'm missing.

Thanks in advance.