All inserts on instrument tracks broken

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Any help here appreciated please, thank you!

Inserts are broken on all my instrument tracks. W10 Pro, C14 Pro,

I can select a plug in to load in the insert slot of the instrument track, and it opens, but the power button and bypass button are greyed out. If I “X” it closed, it still appears in the insert rack of the instrument track, but is unresponsive - it’s completely unclickable there.

I restarted in Cubase safe mode, disabled all preferences, and disabled all 3rd party plug ins - same result. This happened even on a dummy instrument track.

Has anyone else seen this? Any hints please?

Thank you!

EDIT: I opened a Cubase demo project, and the inserts work just fine in instrument tracks there.

I guess that means my project is corrupted somehow?

If so - how do I recover my work?

Thanks!

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I guess so… :neutral_face:
Any .bak file exisitng in your project folder ?

Maybe by using the File > Save as… function, as a first attempt…

If not working, I would try to create a new one and use the File > Import > Track from project command or import audio files directly from the \audio subfolder of your previous project and retrieve eventual MIDI material with export/import of MIDI files.

Can’t think of something better, at this moment…

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Could it be that you are the second one within a day?

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Always forget that one, as I never use it…

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OMG, that was it!

I never use it, except for last night, so I forgot about that.

Thank you @Johnny_Moneto !

Something still doesn’t add up to me though - as I described above in the OP, with Constrain Delay Compensation (CDC) button activated, any insert plugin I added to the insert slot in an instrument track was nonfunctional, even Steinberg Compressor.

But, at the same time, I *could add fully functional plugins to audio tracks!

I wonder why the difference?

Either way, as I see it - that’s a limitation of the CDC button - less than functioning Instrument Tracks.

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In my previous Cubase 12 the latency allowance for plugins was set to 20ms by default (I think). I had noticed that on Cubase 14 I had that setting at 0ms initially.
Preferences → VST

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Thanks for that, @Johnny_Moneto . Will review and consider the implications …