Well I’m back!
I took a week away and went ‘other DAW’ shopping.
I tried the Reaper, FL Studio 12 and Studio One 3 demos.
I already own Studio One 2.6.5 but have not used it or even installed it in 2-3 years.
What sent me flying was a few too many glitches and other issues with C7.5.3 & 8.0.20.
Namely with the windows randomly disappearing.
If I click on a window, like the mixer to move it just a bit, and I miss with the mouse by just a tiny bit, the mixer would disappear and/or the VST open window showing Kontakt would just go.
Or if at anytime, I were to make the mistake of opening my audio interface’s GUI, Cubase comes to an instant pause, whereby I can’t see anything in my GUI now because there’s no more audio - not at least until I close that GUI again - and then Cubase resumes where it left off.
The 2 simple mistakes I made this time was:
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I changed one setting in Kontakt 4’s output section.
I simply wanted to set it to 8 stereo outs, with each successive output pair 1/2, 3/4, 5/6, etc. to show in the Cubase mixer for individual processing, obviously. -
I changed a VST connection bus from 1 Stereo out to 2 Mono outs instead.
That was all it! That’s all it took!
Next thing I know, I can’t play a song I’ve been working on for months - in either C7.5 or 8.
“A Serious Problem has occurred…”…over & over again.
I finally get it to load in 7.5.3 after a long while and much ‘effen around’.
But every single mixer FX is gone - dozens of FX - all gone.
Upon restarting and loading the song - a very long list of what ‘could not be found’.
I get another song to finally open, but when given the option to ‘Activate’ it, it goes to the crash message above.
So then I choose not to Activate it, and the song finally plays - but only the sound!
No visible transport, no cursor, no mixer activity.
So I go up to the left to Activate it, and crash again.
I find it very hard to believe - in fact almost impossible - that all this damage could be done simple but making those 2 ultra simple setting adjustments mentioned above.
But ‘other DAW’ shopping just brought right back to Cubase.
And even though I like the mixer better, I bailed on Studio One 2 for Cubase 6.5 because of their [Presonus’] comfortable arrogance of purposefully ignoring us heavy MIDI users repeated requests, and continually leaving out any MIDI additions or contributions to their successive DAW versions - even to this day.
And after all, I’m into Cubase for 2 years now, some $700-800 dollars, a hundred of which was spent on the CMC-TP that I really like and can’t use anywhere else.
Plus I’ve made more music in Cubase that any other DAW I own. [Studio One 2.6.5 & Sonar X2a included].
So I’ve chosen to make Cubase work one way or another.
I’ve even forgiven the last time when some of my tracks were deleted earlier this year for no apparent reason when there was another Kontakt problem.
Kontakt was gone and all the associated recorded tracks all gone with it.
So…any recommendations regarding Kontakt 4 & 5, since I use at least one of these in every song?
And any recommendations on Cubase while we’re at it?
There almost seems to be a ‘touch of animosity’ between these 2 German softwares working together.
The ironic thing is that my Prefs were so solid for the longest time, that I even shared them with someone here, who then got up and running after about a year’s down time and was just about to bail on Cubase.
He then reported that all is well, with many thanks.
I look forward to your help and suggestions.
Thanks Buds,
James