Inspector broke

Cubase
#1

The entire menu on the left is broke and nothing will respond/click/work there.

The situation is the same regardless if I open an old project or start a new one.

As far as I know it’s called the Inspector:

Also, this is affecting automation, for example, I have read and write enabled on any VST, it will record manual knob editing, it also plays it back fine when only read is enabled, however when I try to click “show used automation (selected track)” it doesn’t show up, it won’t let me do it, this is a huge problem as I need to be able to edit automation properly.

Edit - Read/Write automation doesn’t work at all, it doesn’t even record manual knob twist.

I would sincerely appreciate any help!

#2

The way out of this problem, always works for me at least, is to do a soft reboot of Windows. Don’t turn off/on your machine as this won’t solve the problem.

For Windows 8 a soft reboot is

  1. Press ctrl alt del key combination.
  2. Click the machine on/off icon at the bottom right of the screen.
  3. Click Restart.

After the reboot, open your project. The inspector should respond normally.

#3

Same solution here.

#4

Ah, thanks very much!

Any idea why this happens?

#5

Something about the Windows clock, not the clock that displays time, going out of sync, and it needs to be reset. I didn’t understand the explanation but the solution does work. On my system it happens like clockwork about once a month. I used to use Windows System restore to fix it, but a software reboot is much easier.