Audio Hardware Setup! Now it's there, now it's not!

Thanks to Funk Master, too. He noticed what happened when it was present, I just figured out how to satisfy that condition when starting Cubase. I agree that this should be fixed. It would seem that a simple fix (maybe not an elegant one) is suggested by our workaround. It should be easy enough to just force Cubase to rescan the driver each time it opens, even if the user doesn’t see it happening. But then, I’m not a programmer.