Approx. a week ago I made a move and switched from Cubase 12 pro to Cubase 14 pro. I reported on few issues here in this forum but all was generally fine. Until now. I load cubase 14. I choose a project. The project loads. All the windows are displayed and then everything stuck. None of the controls of the cubase windows work. I’m on windows 11, and the latest cubase 14 version. The same also if I disable 3rd party plugins. Also the same if I load without the last program preferences. I did not try to delete the program preferences. I also tried to load an empty project with the same results.
Wait, here comes the funny part. After few minutes, all cubase windows disappear but then the music starts to play (!!!) Then, in the task bar I can still see cubase and can see the icons of the project window and mixwondow, but I cannot switch to any of them.
I’m using cubase since version 6 and I never had such a situation. Cubase 12 (which is still installed) works fine with the very same project.
Any idea what to do now? BTW, I can decide to install cubase 15 (I have a license)…
Update - after few reboots, complete shutdown of all the studio, power up, and it works again. Good that I did not delete the preferences. Anyways, is that a known phenomenon or something that sometimes happen? Are there any extra steps I should take if this happens again?
I finally understood what happened. One of the MIDI controllers that are connected in my studio is a small novation lunchkey controller. It hase some sort of a “built in” “cubase integration” (in my previous version - cubase 12 - that intergation is not fully active, but in my current version - cubase 14 - it does). Aparantly the novation lunchkey required a recent firmware update. I was not aware of that. Today, I had the same strange cubase 14 “stuck on load” which made the UI (after loading the project) totally inresponsive - even the first cubase screen (before I choose the project to load) was a bit sluggish. Cubase 12 worked without any issues. I then had the idea of turning the lunchkey off and on, and also had an idea to check whether any updates to the novation drivers / firmware is required. I discovered such a firmware update is required, updated the firmware, and from that moment cubase 14 started to work as usual. So here is the thing - I don’t know whether to classify it as a “bug” or as a “feature request” but I guess that if there is anything built-in into cubase that interacts with that so called “hardware integration” then it had better be able to detect timeouts or other issues in the 3rd party hardware integrtion. Furthermore, I must emphasize that the problem happened also if I load cubase in “disabled 3rd party” stuff. Maybe thst type of hardware integration may also be disabled under that “safe mode”? Well, I’m making here few assumptions, but, at the end of the day, it was the cubase process that got stuck…