Cubase 13 (PC\Windows11): No audio playback on events after recording (but only temporarily)

When recording an instruments via audio track, the playback has be erratic.
Most times all is well and the audio can be played back as usual, but often the playback is as if muted.

The way I have been fixing this is by muting and un-muting the event, or by playing with faders or project fader settings, which will un-mute the event.
This is not a routing failure i don’t think, and this happens maybe one in 10 recorded events.
I also noticed 2 related issues which I think are part of the same bug.

If an audio track is duplicated excluding track events, the track will at times play the events of the original track as if the events were on the duplicated track.

At times, recording multiple events onto one track (creating multiple events in the “lanes” panel) will mute the new events and replay an older events in the lanes.

Fixing all these bugs require only I play with “Comp selection” or faders or sometimes just moving the event around will bring it back to life.

Leaving the event untouched will however not un-mute it.
So i don’t think it could be a disk loading issue.

I also find that no previously recorded material finds itself muted in this way.
Only freshly recorded events.

Important to notice none of these issues are encountered in Cubase 12 which is still active on this same PC.

Any help would be welcomed.

Hi. Can you post a screenshot showing a recording that is behaving like this and covers multiple Lanes. Also indicate which bits are misbehaving.

Absolutely.
Now i forgot to mention this also happens when duplicating events on the same track.
I was playing around to get it to happen again and it happened here.

In the A pair of images we can see the first 2 events outputting audio as intended.
In the B pair of images, the event ( which was duplicated using “shift-D”) is showing no output in the rms meters.
In the C image we can see fiddling with the left fader got it to output audio again.

NO routing changes were made between the bug and the fix.
The Soloed track did not help the problem it was just to make sure i was not insane.

Humm, that image ends up being too tiny to see what’s happening and when I zoom it only gets blurry. Maybe re-post as 4 individual images.





Ah. I was not sure i could post 5 images at once.
So i have been toying around with trying to reproduce this with Cubase’s “Auto fader” settings turned off.
I used to have them set to fade in and out 2ms but with it turn off on a fresh project this has not occurred yet.

I don’t see anything that looks suspicious - maybe some different eyes will.

If this has only occurred on a single Project it could just be file corruption. What happens if you create a fresh new Project and use File>Import>Tracks From Project… to pull all the Tracks into it?

Unfortunately this has happened to multiple projects. Maybe 6 or 7 for sure.
Some new to 13, some ported from 12.
At first I got out of it fast and figured it was a brain fart and didn’t think anything of it. But it just keep happening.

I was using a base template imported from 12, suspected that, made a new one from scratch in 13. No luck.

Its back to 12 for now…

Hi, did you resolve this? I have just started using C13 and have the same issue?

Not going to say I am glad you have this too but i was starting to feel crazy that nobody had this issue but me.
I have a E-mail chain with Steinberg’s support team Atm to hopefully find a solution if it can be done from the user side or have them find the bug causing this if it is a software issue. Not hearing much from them in the middle of the holidays obviously but if anything comes of it i will post it here.

Any info on what causes it on you side? Or is it mostly random ?

a restart solved it for me, im back making music :slight_smile:

Just had the same issue after importing tracks into my mixing template. Drove me crazy for an hour or so. After saving, and restarting the world is a good place.
Clearly a bug with 13. this is on a Mac

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I am also having the same issue on Mac Studio M1

I might be having the same issue on an existing recording that worked fine at one time. I don’t even have Audo levels on the mix console. I tried mixing down all the separate tracks and imported them into a new project and some of the audio tracks didn’t even have waveforms after importing them. Could it be corruption? Cubase 13.0.41 build/win11 pro