Cubase Pro 11.0.0 Build 300 on Windows 10 v18363.1198 loses focus after certain operations.
The behaviour seems to be the same across the various operations.
Still going on, and it’s not just those instances you mentioned, this happens in other applications on Windows as well. This might be an MS Windows problem.
Thanks for chiming in guys, the more who point this out to Steinberg the better.
I have hundreds of other apps installed on my machine that doesn’t have this problem, so I’m fairly confident this is a Cubase/Steinberg problem.
Perhaps the developers and testers only use Cubase as the only running software?
Otherwise they would for sure have seen this issue. I’ve seen it daily for years.
I have this problem too and haven’t noticed it with other apps (only cubase).
It would be great if it gets solved!!
I’am in cubase 11 pro and it has happened since version 8 or 9 I think.
Same here, has been an issue for I don’t know how long. Happens every single time I do detect silence, which is epilepsy inducing when you run it on multiple events since the Cubase window will start flashing. Once it’s finished, it’s always out of focus.
It’s a big problem - and yes, it’s been on Windows since they changed their already original flawed windows implementation. Would love to see it fixed …
dbh
This is a part of a rather strange windows management which belongs to Cubase culture since its beginning : I remember that Cubase on Atari ST (yes, circa 1985… ) had a specific windows layout called M-ROS, if I remember well. Since, Cubase has never really worked like any other regular applications, at least, on Windows (I don’t know if OSX users are experiencing the same pitfalls).
More concretely, the Cubase ‘vanishing’ behavior happens with only specific window. In my case, mostly, it’s the Audio system and the Generic remote panes of the Studio setup… window that are involved, as well as the Profile manager one. I cannot confirm that it is happening when adding an instrument track, though there is a kind of delay more or less important and depending of the VSTi used before Cubase is in focus again.
FWIW and it’s by no mean an extensive test, but it seems that the new modal windows with OK, Cancel and Close rounded corners buttons are prone to make Cubase vanish, but only when some changes have been done, this, no matter the way used to close them (even the X upper right icon makes Cubase disappear).
The more old fashioned windows (with no rounded buttons and a grey background) such as Preferences or Key commands ones work as expected in all cases, here (IOW, Cubase stay on focus after closing them).
At the end, there is obviously a serious work to be done to streamline the whole application behavior…
I cannot repro any of these in Win 10, would be nice to see a video of it. I am trying to think if I have experienced this but did not know it?
I do notice odd behavior (which is annoying) that the main Cubase window doesn’t show all its contents while it is not in focus, very hard when copying something to another program or visa-versa.
Also, I noticed the the solid grey background always disappears sometimes and reverts to it not being displayed (this changed around Cubase 7 afaik)… I wish there was a feature to ‘always show solid background’ on main Cubase display or something…
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I’m running cubase 11 pro on a pc an facing the following behavior:
add new track in a project
select an output where the track will be routed
confirm with “ok”.
The focus jumps out of cubase and I have to reselect the cubase window to continue. Keeping the choosen output for adding other tracks works fine. But by changing the output of a new audio track to another bus than the current will repeat the issue.
) had a specific windows layout called M-ROS, if I remember well. Since, Cubase has never really worked like any other regular applications, at least, on Windows (I don’t know if OSX users are experiencing the same pitfalls).