Duplicate Grayed-Out MIDI Remote Device – What Could Be the Cause?

Hello,

Hello,

I’m experiencing a strange behavior in the MIDI Remote panel:

As you can see, I have a duplicated control surface entry that appears grayed out.
Do you know what could be causing this? and how to remove it ?

PS: When I remove the grayed-out one and refresh the script, the other one disappears as well.

Thanks in advance for your help!

if it works just leave it alone. from what I understand this happens sometimes as the routing changes so Cubase adds a new version with the new routing. maybe this is a very stupidfied explanation, but this started happening at the end of the Cubase 13 versions and is still like this in v14

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I’ve also experienced this issue from time to time, but have been able to fix it.
it may have been an option labelled “remove this surface” or similar - I don’t quite recall what the exact option wording was. This may only be available on duplicates. It may have been in the menu under the arrow at the top right corner of the surface?

i.e. it’s important not to remove the Script, but just the surface.

When that doesn’t work, and duplicates persist I have gone into the JSON file and found that there were multiple entries in one of the related settings. Sorry - since I fixed mine, I don’t even recall exactly which entry it was.

However I’m pretty sure, if you would post your JSON file, I could find the entry that fixed it for me.

I’ve had this happen in Cubase 12 as well.
My solution is to disable the script and then re-enable it.

on one of my computers, I have 7 copies of my script. it makes no difference on performance, but sure annoying to see it if you like a clean setup like me :wink:

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I had probably 20-30 grayed-out scripts and as @glennloopez I prefer clean setups. In my old age, I think Cubase is contributing to my obsessive compulsive behavior where the once ignored small things become a bother.

Your solution mostly worked, however for some unknown reason there were a few that I had to manually delete.

For my studio, I’m pretty sure the cause is due to Windows 10 recognizing my midi ports. I use 4 MOTU Midi Timepieces. Each timepiece is 8in/8out. With MOTU Clockworks, Windows “sees” 4 units as 2 sets of 16. In my project studio I’m working with 32 midi inputs/outputs.

Every once in a while, things go screwy. Maybe a back-up battery on 1 of my 4 MOTU midi timepices, or something related with those units. When that happens, that screws all the ports, so I have to spend an hour to re-assign and re-label everything.

I think when that happens, the additional devices are generated in the MIDI remote device.