Cubase 14 constant crashes with basic operations

In the past 4 days i have had over two dozen crashes in cubase. I am working on a project where I have to apply tempo mappings to hundreds of wave files and stems. Cubase crashes a LOT when I delete files from the pool, when I delete tracks, when I disable tracks, it’s driving me up the wall. Latest few crash logs are included.

Cubase 14-2025-02-14-112036.ips (236.2 KB)
Cubase 14-2025-02-10-120522.ips (384.0 KB)
Cubase 14-2025-02-11-132412.ips (381.2 KB)
Cubase 14-2025-02-12-152137.ips (296.6 KB)

Running Cubase 14.0.10 on a Mac Studio M1 Max with Macos Sonoma 14.7.3. Using a Steinberg UR44C interface on latest drivers.

Hi and welcome to the forum,

Iæm sorry to hear about your issues.

I have reported the crashes to Steinberg.

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I think I found something that relates to this problem - i have disconnected all input busses from my hardware interface (in the Audio connections window). Seems like I can now disable and enable tracks without crashing. I remember seeing a similar issue on the forum a while back so I tried it, and it seems to work.

Kind of a crappy workaround, especially since I’m working with a Steinberg interface, it really should just work - but for this project I don’t need to use inputs. Still, would love for this to be fixed though.

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Hi,

Interesting…

What language do you use in Cubase? What language is your system using?

Did you use any custom names for the buses?

I use macos and Cubase in US english, my input busses do have custom names!

Hi,

Any kind of crazy names? Long name, unusual characters, something…?

Wow it’s crazy that disabling inputs would solve your issue …
Since I’ve also had lots of crashes with Cubase 14 Pro I will try that too…
Also bear in mind if you use a dual screen setup there are possible issues too, I just posted a solution for that.
Good luck on your side !

Hi,

Could you put the link here, please?

Hi Martin,

I posted the reply here:

Based on the post from four and a half years ago with the same issue:

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Hi, no strange names, Just Input 1, 2 etc, and a stereo bus named Osmose.

Do you have a multiple monitor setup or just one screen?

I have two monitors. The crashes described in your posts don’t seem to be related to my issue. My crashes are not a ‘hang’ with a spinning wheel but an instant closing of the application. (although it’s good to know that issues can be caused by a dual monitor setup, so thanks for bringing that to light!)

It seems like the input bus workaround has solved the issue. I have a macro that disables all tracks in a selected folder, this was a 100% guaranteed crash before I unassigned the input busses.

I suspect the integration of the UR44C interface with Cubase has something to do with it - it adds some basic hardware controls to the MixConsole.

By the way, the crash seems to only occur when I’m disabling/deleting an audio track that is connected to a hardware-connected input bus. If it’s connected to a group, for example, it doesn’t cause a crash when I disable or delete it.

For now I have a workaround, haven’t had a single crash since - obviously it’s not workable long-term, so I hope steinberg can get around to squashing the bug.

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Glad you have a workaround for now. Cubase has areas for improvement with dual monitors and with inputs, as well as zoom, I posted this, check it out :

Hi,

Could you please provide the Macro and the related crash to me?

Hi Martin regarding the multiple monitor issue leading to plugin opening white and freezing Cubase, I just had another new case this morning with Waves Electric200.
After Cubase crashed I unplugged my 2nd monitor, opened the song on Cubase, plugin opened fine on the main (and only) screen, then saved the song to let it remember the plugin location. Closed Cubase and replugged my screen, upon reloading the song with 2 monitors again the plugin opens fine in the first monitor.
I didn’t have this issue about a month ago, no idea which update or install changed that. If you could help that would be great. Danke.
Cubase 14.0.10 64bit 2025.2.18 10.55.06.428-freezedump.dmp (1.8 MB)

Hi,

Do I understand you correctly, the crash happened when a plug-in window opened on the 2nd screen?

Btw, the crash is in AmpliTube:

ntdll!NtWaitForAlertByThreadId+0x14
ntdll!RtlAcquireSRWLockExclusive+0x165
msvcp140!mtx_do_lock+0x70
AmpliTube_5+0x1f8478a

It has nothing to do with Amplitube actually.
I made a short video on a new empty project for you, what you will see is my second monitor capture :
I open a new Waves piano by first bringing the open window DOWN to my first monitor which is under the captured one. Otherwise it would go straight to white.
Then bring the plugin UP, and that works, but if I close it on the second monitor and reopen it there, freeze.
And if I have existing projects where Cubase remembers the position of the offending plugins (Waves, Arturia…) are on the second screen then I cannot open their GUI.
My only fix would be to unplug my second monitor, then open the project so Cubase could bring back all windows to the main monitor.
Really hoping for a fix, this is damaging my workflow.
Thanks

I have tried 6-7 times but didn’t manage to get a dump file with the Waves Electric200 going white and freezing Cubase.
But on first try I got one with the Arturia Lab, which does exactly the same.
Cubase 14.0.10 64bit 2025.2.18 17.32.40.836-freezedump.dmp (1.4 MB)

This one is a hang inside Analog_lab_v:

 ntdll!NtWaitForAlertByThreadId+0x14
 ntdll!RtlSleepConditionVariableSRW+0x131
 KERNELBASE!SleepConditionVariableSRW+0x29
 msvcp140!_Cnd_wait+0x25
 Analog_Lab_V+0x11d8372

I also opened the dump file, so I know, particularly that this was a new empty project with just one instance of Analog Lab.

So the question dear Paul is what would make Cubase go frozen when opening some plugins in a secondary monitor?