I’ve been using Cubase 8.5 on a Windows 7 PC without any issues ever since it was first released, but that PC has just died so I need to get Cubase on my MacBook Pro which is running Catalina 10.15.7.
I downloaded the latest versions of the elicenser software and Cubase 8.5 installer from Steinberg and both installations seemed to go fine. However when I try to open Cubase I can only get as far as the Steinberg Hub. For an instant the content in the left-hand (news and tutorials) pane is displayed but it then disappears, which I thought is a bit odd. If I then try to open a project or create a new project, it just crashes and I get an error.
I’ve tried reinstalling but it’s made no difference. I can’t paste the full error below a this forum has a character limit for posts, so I’ve just included as much as I can. Hopefully that’s the relevant stuff but if not please let me know and I can find specific parts to post. Can anybody help? Until I can get this resolved I’ve essentially got no studio
Process: Cubase 8.5 [831]
Path: /Applications/Cubase 8.5.app/Contents/MacOS/Cubase 8.5
Identifier: com.steinberg.cubase8v5
Version: 8.5.0.69 (8.5.0.69)
Code Type: X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process: ??? [1]
Responsible: Cubase 8.5 [831]
User ID: 501
Date/Time: 2021-09-27 20:32:14.828 +0100
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.15.7 (19H2)
Report Version: 12
Bridge OS Version: 4.6 (17P6610)
Anonymous UUID: 49242F75-CA7A-42C1-A57A-F36073A14421
Time Awake Since Boot: 730 seconds
System Integrity Protection: enabled
Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00007ffeddd54920
Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY
Termination Signal: Segmentation fault: 11
Termination Reason: Namespace SIGNAL, Code 0xb
Terminating Process: exc handler [831]
VM Regions Near 0x7ffeddd54920:
MALLOC_LARGE 00007f9e36b5a000-00007f9e36bff000 [ 660K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV
→ STACK GUARD 00007ffeddd54000-00007ffeddd55000 [ 4K] —/rwx SM=NUL stack guard for thread 0
Stack 00007ffeddd55000-00007ffee1554000 [ 56.0M] rw-/rwx SM=COW thread 0
Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0 libsystem_pthread.dylib 0x00007fff69421bf0 ___chkstk_darwin + 96
1 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff31a0a20a -[NSISEngine _coreReplaceMarker:withMarkerPlusDelta:] + 140
2 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff31a0a110 -[NSISEngine constraintDidChangeSuchThatMarker:shouldBeReplacedByMarkerPlusDelta:] + 243
3 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff31a09fd5 -[NSISEngine tryToChangeConstraintSuchThatMarker:isReplacedByMarkerPlusDelta:undoHandler:] + 410
4 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff31a01fd5 -[NSLayoutConstraint _tryToChangeContainerGeometryWithUndoHandler:] + 389
5 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff319f4ae4 -[NSLayoutConstraint _setSymbolicConstant:constant:] + 553
6 com.apple.Foundation 0x00007fff319f7b80 -[NSLayoutConstraint setConstant:] + 66
7 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff2ceca34f -[_NSOldSchoolAdapter accFrameChanged:] + 102
8 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff2f34080f CFNOTIFICATIONCENTER_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_AN_OBSERVER + 12
9 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff2f3407a3 ___CFXRegistrationPost1_block_invoke + 63
10 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff2f340718 _CFXRegistrationPost1 + 372
11 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff2f340384 ___CFXNotificationPost_block_invoke + 80
12 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff2f3104fd -[_CFXNotificationRegistrar find:object:observer:enumerator:] + 1554
13 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff2f30f9a9 _CFXNotificationPost + 1351
14 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff2c5fba1f -[NSView _postFrameChangeNotification] + 304
15 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff2c5f4684 -[NSView setFrameSize:] + 3248
16 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff2c60603e -[NSView setFrame:] + 423
17 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff2c6775d5 NSViewActuallyUpdateFrameFromLayoutEngine + 279