When I try to ‘pin’ the Fader tab so it stays open, it doesn’t work for instrument tracks.
It works as it should for audio tracks.
After a search I noticed similar posts from almost a year ago, but it was meant to be fixed. I’m on the latest Cubase (8.5.15) and Mac OS 10.11.3.
Anyone else having issues?
Is all good here, working as it should. Have you tried resetting Cubase? It should fix strange behaviours.
+ + (Mac OS X) as soon as the start screen appears.
Hey AP.
I’m afraid that hasn’t worked either. It’s reasonably fresh install of Cubase too, only a month old.
Something else to add to my list of annoyances I guess!
You don’t have to tolerate this. I suggest contacting your local Steinberg tech support by creating a ticket in your my Steinberg account. This forum is not the best place to solve issues. Good luck…
Actually the forum is the best place to solve these tiny issues.
Contacting support should be the last resort.
How are you helping? In my experience I got replies within 24 hours. There’s also phone support.
I can confirm this.
When reporting a problem a repro works best, to make sure that the people who check your problem to the exact same thing you did to reproduce. I will bet that that didn’t happen here– I mean that people tried stuff, but not the exact thing the OP did.
Here’s a Repro:
Here none of the tabs get pinned.
In terms of support response times and ways to contact , it depends on where you are in the world. The US has a separate support team from the EU countries, and there a many countries in the world where Yamaha/Steinberg do not have official support, and people are referred to some local support which might be a retailer.
EU folks can call SB direct, in the US you cannot. in the US as well.
So for someone in countries without Steinberg or Yamaha Cubase tech support, the forum really is the best way to get answers.
If you have an problem or or a feature request sending it to the tech support team i not a bad idea. Especially since those communications are logged, whereas the forum is a more casual affair.
Apologies for the late reply.
Thanks for checking and confirming that Steve, I’ll drop Steinberg a line.
Can confirm, pins don’t work for instrument tracks…
Recently bought Cubase 10 Pro and keep running into small irritations like this one ever since.
Did you get a reply from the support team?
I received a reply a few weeks later, which answered a completely different question. So I gave up.
This is STILL an issue on Cubase 10!!!
Works on audio but NOT on INST or MIDI tracks.
The answer given it to hold ‘ctrl’ to have it work as a pin but imo that’s not a feature. It’s a broken feature and an issue that should be fixed.
4 years running? c’mon …
Update…Cubase 11 and it STILL exists.
May 2021, Cubase 11.0.20 and this is still not fixed. AMAZING!
12.0.2…Still
I agree the issue is only for the instrument part of the inspector.
This applies for either of Instrument Tracks, Sampler Tracks and Midi Tracks.
I have just added it to the Issues list.
I think this must have been not added due to some programmatical barrier, i.e., something else must be changed to do it, and changing that something would break something else, and changing that would break something else which would need to be fixed, etc.
Anywho, Same repro as in 2016.
Still not fixed in 12.0.30. 
Pinning on Instrument tracks is still an issue since Cubase 8.
In the inspector when pinning e.g. the inserts tab of the instrument, it doesn’t stay in this state when opening e.g. the send tab.
Also when strg+clicking all tabs to be open, if you click on one of them, all get collapsed.
It works for audio but not for instrument track types. Such an annoying bug.
Bump! This is still open.
So this is the answer from the support :
The Pin functionality was not developed for instrument tracks , it only concerns audio tracks.
The answer itself is confuse, the problem isn’t about the Instrument Tracks as a whole, but the instrument tabs (the tabs related to the audio part of the instrument, that are in fact the same tabs that we can find on Audio Tracks and on which the Pin is working fine…).
Whatever.
We have the Settings panel available, the pin column is visible, we are able to enable pin on selected tabs, click apply, but then it does not work because the few lines of code needed to close the loop are simply missing.
Is that really a technical barrier or some cult of laziness ?
To me this is clearly an unfinished feature that has been abandoned.
The first post in this Topic is from six years ago.
Come one Steinberg, you can’t tell me that during all that time you didn’t find a moment to “develop” the Pin for instrument tabs.