the past days I’ve been working on a Mix in Dolby Atmos for which I used VCAs (which I usually don’t do). I then rendered the track via Export → 7.1.4. Bus → Split Channels. After listening back to the track in another cubase project I wanted to do minor adjustments, so I reopened the Project the mix was made in. The gain for the Piano VCA was totally off (Numbers stayed the same, but perceived Loudness was arround 6-12dB louder than in the mix I’ve bounced. After adjusting it back this happened again and again, everytime I reopened the project, but with different VCAs and different alterations (Sometimes arround -10dB, sometimes -6dB, sometime +6dB. It seems pretty random and is fairly frustrating to find the exact same settings that you once already had.
I don’t know if it is a Problem with the VCAs, the single tracks or with Atmos (or with me to be fair).
Has anyone encountered something like this before?
Have a look at this thread. Is this what you’re experiencing? If yes, it’s a quirk with the automation. The workaround is to write volume automation (even just 1 node at the very start will do) for the tracks connected to the VCA fader(s).
Thank you! I think this is exactly what I’m experiencing. To be honest I’m very disappointed in Steinberg, since this seems to be going on since Cubase 8 and seems like a big basic issue which you would never like to encounter when mixing…
I’ll try the node solution! Thank you!