I updated to the latest release now it won’t open it’s stuck at initializing midi. What is the fix for this?
It happened before in 15.0.10 and I think I got a popup screen when I tried to open it again after a task manager shutdown from Cubase to send the files to tech support which I did and I believe I clicked on deactivate all 3rd party plug ins and it worked Even tho that was a pain and I had to reload or rescan all of my plug-ins even Groove agent etc. now that won’t even work!
Barring having to go down the windows rabbit hole and roll back updates and restore to an earlier time, isn’t there a simple fix for this? Seemed to work last time but not now.
If you’re on Windows 11, and Cubase is hanging at “Initialising MIDI …”, try uninstalling any vendor-specific MIDI drivers (not applications) for USB MIDI interfaces and controllers. They should work natively with the new Windows MIDI Services. If this is the issue, reverting to earlier Cubase versions on Windows 11 will not fix it.
Link to the information about Windows 11 MIDI Services:
If you have any inMusic devices (AKAI, m-audio, RANE, Numark, Denon, etc.) there’s a known issue with their driver which will hang the service.
MrSoundman is correct. If the device is USB MIDI 1.0 class-compliant, you’ll be better off uninstalling the vendor driver and using our in-box drivers.
If it’s an older device (> 25 years or so), or a combined audio/midi device, you cannot do that, so you will need the fix we have on the Discord server. Windows MIDI / Audio and read the pinned post in #start-here