Add this to the faster and faster growing list of Cubase bugs that starting to make me hate it.
The home screen “forgets” the last project I worked with last.
If I spend 10 hours fixing Project A (say, named song05-54) but next day I don’t remember which one that was Cubase will sneak an older project to the top of the “recent” projects with similar name (song05-53) from 2 days ago and without me noticing I will spend hours fixing stuff I already did wondering, why does it sound still bad if I fixed it yesterday?
Only to realize that I already did and I just wasted hours and hours for nothing because… it’s Cubase.
It just keeps forgetting last projects. All the time. I developed a sort of habit opening the folder and making sure that the project I’m about to open is, indeed, the last one, but sometimes I forget to. Or I quickly go between a number of them using home screen and this is where Cubase shows its nasty side by slipping me an older project. It’s beyond frustrating. Just wasted hours rendering yesterdays obsolete work.
Thanks Cubase.
Opening wrong projects.
Silently messing up project structures/automation/fades.
Incorrectly processing audio on export with complex/heavy projects.
some major issues that make me not trust it anymore. Likely will start looking into other DAWs. I can tolerate a crash, but there are things you’re not allowed to mess with
Given the “Recents” functionality is built into the defaults.xlm file, and that any “corruption” of a process modifying that file would likely manifest itself in far more dramatic ways, my guess is that you just made a mistake and picked the wrong file.
What you’ve described has never happened to me, other than when I open shared projects on separate installations - but I’ve never not had the presence of mind to realize “Oh, I’ve already done this.” Sure, it could have happened, but I’m just pointing out this sounds more like user error.
But if not, maybe another DAW is a better choice for you.
Usually Cubase warns about a new version of the project when they have a sequential title.
Are you sure that it didn’t come because of a previous crash?
What @Thor.HOG said.
Also, you are still on an old build of Cubase 10… how come there’s a growing number of bugs? I’d rather hear about details than generalizations. Sorry, but this sounds like a rant that was fueled by your frustration over a user mistake.
The last project I work, save and quit properly should always be the last showing.
Not user error. I click the top most project always. After I save it and quit Cubase. There’s absolutely no reason for it not to be on top.
If it was backup (newer version) it’d be fine but I set up my backups so that prompt almost never shows. I have a habit of manually saving every few minutes.
Well, you just said you spent 10 hours working on a project but the next day didn’t remember which one is was, so maybe there’s a possibility you just made a mistake. I’m not aware of any systemic “recents” issues being reported, but you’ve not even said what version of Cubase you’re using or even what OS, so who knows.
I’ve not experienced what you describe and I work on multiple versions of multiple projects on multiple systems all the time. FWIW.
That’s weird though, tbh it never happened here but I’m sure that Cubase is not saving crashed projects into the hub, so then we have to run them from the auto saves folder.
So….at the final of the day…save as “my hit song Oct 18 2025 1051am” when you’re done for the morning. And then purposely open that one tomorrow from your "my hit song” project folder.
Or ….if that’s too inconvenient…continue the hair-pulling
I guess I must be the only guy who re-opens .cpr’s from Windows instead of the Hub? Click the Windows category “modified” that will by default bring up the latest update, or if necessary resort to auto saves.
In the hub, I have never experienced this, but as said, my experience is limited from the hub. What am I missing by not using the hub for re-opening projects?
I used to do it without the home screen. The whole purpose of it is to speed up loading the recent project… if it was working correctly, which it doesn’t.
For the record - you are barking up the wrong tree - @Thor.HOG didn’t mention a crash. You did in your first post and another user thought about it to suggest a possible explanation to help you out. Nothing wrong with that I guess.
Anyhow, since noone else has ever experienced such an alleged Cubase bug you might want to consider the possibility that it was just a simple user error.
Your issues are due to a combination of user-error, confusion, disorganization–not bugs.
You won’t have overly complex/heavy projects if you make better decisions on how to organize them.
During the composition/mixing phase you should use (the same) one template, one project, and one folder per song–unless you really need every song in one huge project. That will resolve all three of the issues you’re currently blaming on the DAW.
Cubase doesn’t silently mess-up projects–it does what the user tells it to do. You’re going to be frustrated, make lots of accidental global changes, and waste time if your projects contain more than what you need to work on and complete a particular song. It’s easier to avoid making mistakes when there aren’t multiple unrelated tracks within the same project.
If you want help, post some screenshots of your project setup; if you think there are real bugs–post the steps to reproduce them.
This. I’ve had it happen - the wrong project is on the top of the list. It seems to be when Cubase crashes, but it’s easy to think Cubase didn’t crash… because it was on exit, not during use
So helpful. “User error”. I’ve been working with Cubase for 20+ yrs, but you guys sure know it better.
When Cubase crashes it disappears. When a project file is saved and the project is exited properly Cubase returns to the Hub. But what do I know. I probably exited to the Hub through some “user error crash” way that only I know how to.
Thanks for your highly intelligent detective work, folks.
Just like 99.9% of all the stupid, backward things reported on this forum “can’t replicate, works as intended, it’s a design feature, user error”.
20 years later maintenance update “fixed that intended design feature…” like finally, they fixed automation undo crap that was plaguing Cubase for 20 years that was for all these years claimed as “an intended feature and working as designed” and that was a clumsy user’s error.
