I opened up a project last night and noticed that even though I could hear audio, non of the faders were having any affect on volume. I also could see no meter activity, yet could still hear audio.
I checked all output configurations in the control room, and nothing had changed. As an experiment while playing back a soloed track, I used the mute tool, and it muted as expected. Paying back the same track, fader down,…no meter activity, yet I could still hear the audio.
I even selected “no bus” on the routing output, but could still hear audio?! It was getting late and I just gave up and shut it all down. Haven’t had time yet for more trouble shooting. I do have the latest version of Cubase installed. I’m using the MR816CSX as my interface, so perhaps it’s the culprit?
Any ideas what could be causing this wacky behavior?
Just a thought, I once had this happen and didn’t realize I had opened 2 projects but the active one wasn’t the one I had in focus. So when I hit play there was sound, but of course nothing was showing any activity at all, as I say, just a thought😊.
Well, I feel quite stupid! In the control room monitoring section, I’d inadvertently engaged the “Cue” button, as opposed to the “mix” button,…so I was monitoring the cue sends instead of the actual mix itself. All is functioning normally now. Whew! Lol
It’s always good to hear how a story ends, it doesn’t matter that it was user error, we all do it from time to time. Knowing what the cause was is useful for all.
Just a few minutes ago I had one of those WTF moments only to realise that I had two instances of Console 1 on the same channel, this was not good as the software can’t correctly integrate the channel numbers. It was easily done as I had imported that audio track and settings from another project and then added Console 1 across the board though it was already in place on the import. So, that’s one more thing I have now learned to check.
Don’t feel stupid, I sometimes get stuck on something where I think it’s Cubases fault and it turns out to be mine, last night I was trying to add a midi note to a drum part, I put it in but it wouldn’t sound must have spent 20 minutes on it trying different ways but just could not get it to sound I was convinced Cubase was a t fault.
Turned out that I had selected a muted track drum part in a track directly above the one I thought I was editing.
