Device Setup Preferences

Cubase
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Hi

Whenever I start up Cubase 7, my device setup Audio System is set to a wrong ASIO driver. Somehow Cubase can’t store my preference here - which might be related to a user right problem on OSX.

Could anybody tell me WHERE the device setup preferences are stored on the system?

Thanks for your hints,

Thomas

2

Aloha T,

Same prob here and for many years.

I have yet to figure this one.

Sometimes my audio I/O device loads on
startup, and sometimes not.

I have tried using OSX features like ‘Login Items’ etc but it is never
consistent.

My work-a-round now is to:
1-power up the audio device
2-power up the 'puter
3-Start Cubase.

This works but not all the time.

BTW
I do not use this machine for anything else
other than Cubase.

No Intertoobs, no games, no word processing, no graphics etc.
and still this behavior is not consistent.

On the up-side, once loaded properly this system is
rock solid.

{‘-’}

3

This is how you should always start up your system, no matter what OS you use. Then do the reverse when shutting down. I follow that procedure and never have this problem, ever!

4

I’ll admit that I too have this when I startup my system. While a PC, I’ve had the interface (896hd MOTU) on first, the occasional start goes to the USB speakers which is really a small USB headset and mic I use for Dragon Dictation. A simple few clicks corrects it but it does happen. By the way, if you hate typing long notes, letters or lyrics…that thing is perfect

5

I have the same problems, after startup de computer sometimes doesn’t recognize my M-Audio firewire 410. It’s solved by a warm reboot. Strangly the same thing sometimes happens with my dual monitor setup: only one (and not always the same!) monitor is working. I allways turn on the monitors en audio interface before starting the computer, but sometimes this happens.

De computer is dual boot Windows 8 (cubase 7) and Windows XP (cubase 6.5). The problems are only with Windows 8, XP allways boots ok and is rock-solid. I hope Windows 8.1 will solve the problem!

6

It’s not that my computer does not recognize my MOTU, but Cubase starts up with “Airplay” as standard…
I can switch in the preferences to my MOTU (so it’s recognized), and all other applications are well set-up with the MOTU interface.

That’s why I thought it might be a problem with the preferences file (permissions).

Thomas

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looks like apple wants to dominate your asio , delete airplay and then reinstall it to see if motu is then given priority ,if not then you know apple are the culprits which I quite believe will be the case

8

Do you have an AMD/ATI video card? Their drivers are notorious for stability problems.

Since using two quad AMD cards after using three dual output NVidia based ones, I often have one particular touchscreen not come on (fairly consistently) at startup, and a particular one of my 30"ers not come out of sleep when using the keyboard/mouse after a video timeout (often).

Swapping physical devices does not change the outcomes, the same video out channels are the culprits, thought it isn’t the hardware.

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I have AMD cards and now that it has been discussed , I have had these developments pop up on occasion. Mine is a 6700 HD Raedon series with 2 gb . I just installed the latest drivers today to see if it eliminates the issue but it IS a random one