Cubase Bug - Adding silence to Audio imports! *Please Help

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Hello guys,

Need some urgent help with this problem with importing audio to cubase 15 pro.

Basically whenever I import audio either from my computer folder to cubase pool / or drag audio into project. Cubase seems to add silence to the audio stem. Changing the original audio length

Either 32nd / 64th note of silence. Sometimes more - Something I don’t want to guess everytime I import audio to try time align.

Imported Audio is

  • Musicical Mode is OFF
  • Tempo has been set to the correct tempo
  • Its WAV 44.1K 24bit / Same as project setup
  • Snap is on (tested in grid/bars/beats mode + adaptive loop) all still add audio silence.

Reason this is a problem especially when working with other producers songs, is that the imported audio not lining up with the previous track project length - so its off grid and out of time. If its not drums its even harder to know if the timing is right.

I just want to import audio stem into my project as its been rendered and no extra audio to be added to the stem. Or if it is always 32nd note to the grid at least I know this is the case moving forward.

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

I’ve tested in other daw (ableton) and im not getting this issue.

I’ve tried in a blank cubase 15 project aswell / Same issue in Cubase 14

Ps. A long time mentor of mine said this has been an issue in cubase for a decade.

Mac Tahoe 26.5
Cubase 15.0.2
Cubase 14

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I never had Cubase add any silence to imported audio. I also wouldn’t know how to “achieve” that if I wanted to.

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If you open it up with the Sample Editor is there silence visible at the start?

EDIT

Can you post a screenshot of some problem Audio on a Track (5 or 6 lines tall), zoomed in on the start. Make sure the Audio is selected and show the entire Info Line.

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yes, its actually tiny dots of samples

The Bass Stem for example - is ment to start at bar 16 but it starts at bar 16 & a 32nd note.

In Ableton the same stem starts at bar16

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Screenshot 2026-06-01 at 12.02.34 pm
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Is this what you mean?

My import is somehow adding 32nd or a 64th of silence - making the issue out of time.

Obviously the fix is a snap gid adjustment but I just want the audio to be imported as its rendered.

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Is there any chance that the WAV file contains some meta-data like loop points?

I don’t have meaningful experience with those, beyond knowing that they exist and different software may behave differently when importing those.

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Not sure, but these stems were coming from logic, but when these stems are imported to ableton in a clean project they do not have the extra audio length

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If anyone has any solutions or import settings or preferences I need to look at?

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I think Logic can optionally include “loop info” when exporting WAV files and maybe Ableton interprets those while Cubase doesn’t?

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any way of changing that in preferences? if so where?

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I don’t think there is anything that you can do in Cubase.
It would be awesome if you could upload an example audio file that exhibits this behaviour. If possible even with the same audio file maybe exported in Ableton’s Live, which would then import correctly in Cubase? For a comparison.

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The info line says the Audio is about 189 bars long. At 120 BPM that’s about 6 minutes. Does that seem right to you?

Can you post another where you zoom out enough to see both the start of the file and the start of the Audio.

Absolutely, but preferably much shorter than 6 minutes.

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This screenshot was in a blank project just to show there are samples in the audio (silence) as this is what someone asked for. It wasn’t blank space / created on my end.

My only issue is that the audio stems when imported line up differently to other daws. Hence creating a bit of a timing different, in ableton I can’t seem to create the same issue - the bass for example lines up on the bar but in cubase its 32nd note out - hence causing confusion if Cubase is adding some audio length

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Here is the stems in the project and adjusted so they align with the other stems. Please note - I didn’t have to adjust the stems in a another DAW.

Screenshot 2026-06-05 at 10.29.44 am
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What are the important things to notice & pay attention to in these pics?

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The Stems should be placed at Bar 1 and not before bar 1, I had to manually move them to make them hit on the 1 at Bar 17

In ableton they were placed at Bar 1 and lined up at Bar 17 - without manual placement.

I just need to know why Cubase would be adding length to my audio stems

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Any chance you can send a couple of the requested audio file examples?