It’s it possible that maybe the channel strip has a compressor/maximizer engaged, EQ curve, or the gain increased in the pre section?
Hello,
nope, no sends, no fx, nowhere… 
I was not able to figure that out and I did not get any answer from support yet. Anyone, any suggestions?
I didn’t see a reply regarding Control Room - you’ve verified no inserts are sneaking around in the CR?
Hi, nope - clean, new session without any presets
I’ve discovered that we can completely rule out the audio interface as the cause of the issue. I tested the setup on my laptop without the audio interface connected, and the problem still occurs. It’s also important to note that this issue is not limited to just one project. It happens across all projects, whether new or old, and with any group channel 7/8 I create. It’s quite strange!
I’ll stop after this, but I just can’t shake the feeling we’re talking about something different. I’m not talking about “presets,” I’m talking about inserts in the Control Room. Since there is no metering changes in the tracks, and since this only happens at the interface, and you’ve got nothing on the Console to affect this, something his happening between the main and the interface output, which smacks of Control Room.
Since you responded with words like “presets” I just wanted to make sure we’re talking about the same thing. Control Room configuration will indeed persist through different projects.
You could create a new Profile or backup your /Preferences folder and just reinitialize all presets and see if the behavior persists. Since this behavior is consistent and repeatable, there’s some manner of routing/audio connection/control room insert/monitor configuration somewhere. 'Twer it I, I’d start with a completely fresh, reinitialized set of preferences and go from there.
This is confusing…the problem is increased levels on outputs 7/8…if the interface is not connected surely you don’t have any outputs 7/8.
I really want to thank you for all your suggestions; I truly appreciate every idea that might help. Please don’t worry about possibly bothering me with your thoughts, I’m completely open to them.
As for the Control Room, I really don’t have any inserts or settings that could affect this. I’ve also reset all my preferences, but unfortunately, it didn’t help, so I’m really at a loss.
Thanks again for your help!
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Hi. In this case, I would like to clarify that I am referring to the group 7/8 in Cubase, which is then routed to the 7/8 output. The issue occurs directly within the group 7/8, where the volume gradually increases, regardless of the settings I use. Even when I delete the group and recreate it, the same problem persists. This group 7/8 itself is responsible for the volume increase, not the 7/8 output, as I thought earlier. This happens even though I have ruled out all potential issues with routing and preferences.
In your example screenshots there was no Group channel involved at all. You routed the signal from an audio track directly to an output bus, which you had called “07/08”.
Can you please post a screenshot of your Audio Connections → Outputs?
If you have a project that can demonstrate this without your audio interface routing I would suggest you upload the cpr so someone can have a look.
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Hi there - here it is - it’s the session from the video. Please let me know, if it does occur in your DAW as well.
(Try to route the mono track out to the 7/8 group and then to the others for comparison…)
I’m not in a position to check it right now…but will take a look late tonight or in the morning.
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Rebuilding my audio connections on my second workstation now. Just to make sure, with all these busses connected in Outputs, you have nothing else connected in Control Room, correct?
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Yes - nothing
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Right on - I’m starting with a new Profile and just built a 16x16 IO with two x8’s. Scanning VSTs now, so I’ll have some feedback in a bit 
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Cool, please try to open the test project I’ve posted…
Yep, “This is a volume test - 1,2,3”
No issues at all. Here I had to insert a Send to my monitors to hear the output, but 7/8 gain remained unchanged on outputs 7/8. I even rebuilt the outputs swapping 1-8 between the two x8s. I will say your test volume is very low, so even with pregain up quite a bit there was no change at all on the UADs.
Did you use Profile Manager to create a new profile? That will let you start from scratch with the test profile (you’ll have to recreate your audio connections, but I did all that several times just in the time it took to reply and fiddled about with other stuff) but load your original to get back to where you were.
If a default profile still does it, then it’s safe to say it’s on the interface side.