Last week I stepped over the probably biggest issue I ever experienced.
I have a session which was recorded and mixed last year.
I recorded another session for that album this year.
I took the old “recording” project, cleaned it up and recorded this years session in it, with same setting, routing etc
Last week I wanted to mix that session so I backed up the project (fortunately, as always!) in a new folder, bounced all edits, cleaned up a bit etc.
So far so good. Then I opened last years session (we are talking about Cubase 8.5 sessions which I both opened in 8.5, but I confirmed in C9 as well so this is not a “Version incompatibly” issue) - exported a lot of tracks n groups to xml - then imported that to the new mix. Basically adding groups/fx which were already there - just “mixed” versions… I wanted to delete the old (unmixed) versions then (PLEASE give us "import tracks from project INCLUDING Groups and FX!!! I do most of my processing on groups so importing tracks alone is just half the way)
But here poop hits the fan:
I suddenly experienced heavy audio glitches, like white noise bursts, distortion at 0db etc - plugins started to go mad (Fab filter had grafic glitches, Sonnox became funky etc) project became instabil and crashed. HD Meter went spiking like mad etc… I was basically shocked.
Events, with a “regular” wave form started to playback like the files are corrupted - not in a random way, it stayed there - I was shocked, but opening the corresponding wave files in Wavelab was fine - wave files are ok…
Basically that project was COMPLETELY damaged in any way…
Fortunately I had backups/older versions etc and I started all over… but as soon as I imported something - or even duplicated a track - everything became corrupted again…
This made me at least 5 years older and killed almost a day of creative work because I was not sure what was going on. I first was under the impression that a grafic card update messed up my system… I am still not sure, I had issues here, uninstalled reinstalled the older version, updated again etc…
BUT other projects are performing fine without any issues… knocking on wood
I was even fearing an SSD error… but a “clean” version (before importing groups etc) runs fine as well as the session is still damaged when playbacked from another drive…
What happened?
I had issues in the past when importing groups again which are already in the project… this “confuses” Cubase, so routing might be messed up a bit, all I need to do is deleting one of the two “identical” groups and reopen the project so Cubase can internally re-organize the stuff…
Brandy