Entire song has Detuned! What is going on with Cubase?

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Cubase 13 crashed. Didn’t auto-save as per standard. (Auto save hasn’t worked for me since version 10).

I lost my work. Then my song began to drift out of key. Seemingly track by track.

Now I’m playback of v12 Vs v19 they are completely different keys.

This isn’t a transpose issue.

There are multiple third party vsts at play. Serum for example. Kontakt. So on

Now when I render v12 it has the same pitch issue as v19. V12 now exports in this aggressive pitch alteration.

What hurts about this is it was one of six songs I’d selected out of a folder full - to launch a label next year. I had taken an ear break from it with two items left to reconcile. I really like this song it’s some of my best work, and it’s taken a long part of my life to reach this stage here I can make a handful of songs and pull the best and have an easy selection of material to use. But this song was special.

It’s also 100+ tracks - not sure if that could be an issue?

One evening I had a moment of inspiration - decided No to the vocal - and then effortlessly edited this one bit of midi to complete the ticket list. Then it crashed before I saved.

I spent hours trying to rectify this. Stemming it in all shapes and sizes. The midi still sounds bad I can’t get it to how I efforsslt did it prior to the crash.

I even re-added the vst patches as some had been corrupted in the crash - I guess?

People on here seem to think Cubase never crashes and or that auto save actually works … I haven’t seen this work in Cubase 10, 11, 12, 13, or 14.

Any ideas as to why my entire song is ruined? I’m sure it is not transposed midi, I’ve checked with vigilance, could be some hidden quirk like this globally?

Thank you

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Is it possible your project sample rate has changed? Say 44.1kHz to 48 or something like that.

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Could be.

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Check if the sample rate changed (in project vs audio interface).

Check that the mod wheel is not all the way up or down (virtually), it happened to me that when my project crashed (also with more than 300 tracks) and i reopened it all my tracks where out of tune by 1 tone, the culprit was my old midi controller’s modwheel.

I moved the modwheel up and down and to the center and it fixed everything for the record enabled tracks, for the static tracks that have static midi info, check the modwheel parameter in the midi track and make sure its centered (to avoid any pitch shift)

I hope this helps!

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No, this is not the reason.

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I am going to name my child Javier

I am sorry you went through this, and thank you so much for replying.

This would seem to be it. It was not exclusively isolated for Midi tracks that I had played vs drawn. Some of the tracks sound indifferent with the mod wheel changed or not changed.

This + a few other things seems to have solved the issue. Thank you again.

I did troubleshoot this, and I thought that removing the midi controller would have undone this.

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