Cubase 13 pro, tempo setting changes

Hi,

The past few weeks my tempo settings keep changing, spuriously. To the best of my knowledge, I have no tempo track active. So this behaviour seems odd.

This started in 13.0.30 and carries on in 13.0.40. I use the tap tempo function in the transport control to set my tempos.

Am I doing something wrong? Any ideas are very welcome.

I am on Win 10.

Best,

Magnus

Hi,

Is it a static change (the whole project is playing in an unexpected tempo) or does it change while playback?

Does the Project’s Sample Rate match the Audio Device’s Sample Rate?

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Hi Martin,

And thanks for the quick reply.

The changes occur during playback. It doesn’t really cause too many problems since I only use audio tracks (I mix multitrack recordings) and no midi stuff. The only thing it messes up is tempo-synced fx.

These changes don’t happen all the time, either. But a few times during say an hour’s work.

I am pretty sure that the sample rates match, but will check.

Best,

Magnus

Hi,

Could you attach the Project’s window screenshot, to make sure, the Tempo Track is disabled, please?

Thanks, here it is.

Best,

Magnus

Hi,

The Tempo Track is activated in this Project.

Many thanks for your kind help, Martin. I will deactivate it.

All the best

Magnus

I was just searching for this bug and it’s just been happening to me in Nuendo 13 literally 24 hours before massive deadline is just started inserting tempo track changes all over the place. And the problem is I’m using warp points so I need the tempo track to be stable.

This is frustrating and it is eroding my trust in the product. I absolutely love this product but if this kind of stuff happens out of the blue when you leave your computer for half an hour to take a break and come back and find out everything has been altered while you haven’t been touching it that’s a huge problem.

It would be interesting to see what the Undo History (Edit menu) shows in regards to the creation of the tempo events.

Good call if this happens again I will do that.

I haven’t edited the tempo track except at the start of the project once, which was why this was concerning it’s always been set to 105bpm. I’m not new to this software as I’ve been using it since Nuendo 4 and Cubase 2 and 3 before it.

The last thing that I was doing before this change was editing warp points not recording. I had stepped away to give my ears a break. When I came back from the break none of the warp points were working in the percussion track was way off. No one else touches this computer because I am in my own private home not in a studio.

So from what I can find out is that tempo tracks cannot even be edited by midi which also rules out any MIDI glitching.

I have noticed that Nuendo becomes unstable when it’s on for a long time. I have issues like audio stopping working, freezing, and other weird UI or behavioral glitches that get resolved as soon as I restart the software. I have a programming background, this to me sounds like a memory leak. It might not be from Nuendo itself tho. I am using both Izotope 9 and Waves plugins only. It’s very likely it could be coming from those as well.

My current workflow now until I can afford an upgrade is to restart the DAW every hour or two. (Recently unemployed and need to pay the bills not upgrade).

Most of my work is usually post-production, MIDI based composition. This is probably the first project I am doing a ton of live tracking with. I’ve never encountered this bug before and I have used all of the plugins I mentioned consistently for many years.