Issues - recording, freezing - first project with Cubase

Cubase
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Guys,

This is my very first trial with Cubase Pro 8 (and Cubase, period).

Aside of fact I do not have meters moving (as per another post I made), here are some additional issues I am facing:

  1. If I record an audio track (guitar), while monitoring before recording, sound is very clean. Once I record it, it end out like a heavy overloaded guitar recorded. Unless there is any ‘‘pre-loaded rack’’ in the background, I just can,t figure out what could be wrong in my routing to over-metalize my guit… (we are talking here of real guitar, audio track). (Possible I have chosen the template ‘‘rock’’ or ‘‘pop’’ song when first creating the project. (And… of course, since I do not have monitoring onscreen - else than on mixing board and audio interface, no way to see if anything hits hard in Cubase). (Oh and waveform on the track shows very decent - not like an overloaded track at all)

  2. Once I finish recording, if I’m trying say, to go an hit File : Save (or Edit to Undo recording), I get a freeze for about 20 long seconds if not more before I can do it… and it freezes again if I go too fast and miss the right button thus do the process again… This is very annoying. And it seems only to do it after recording an audio track - not Instrument tracks.

  3. One more very annoying : I am (as many of you) using dual monitoring. Why do I need to re-create everything every time I re-launch the same project ? (everything is back on one monitor ! … Never saw this issue in Pro Tools or Logic (same system).

Must tell I am using this on Mac OSX 10.8.5 (not ‘‘officially’’ supported, but many here appear to use CB Pro 8 on that)

System:
CustomMac built:
i7 Core 2 duo, 8GB,
Mac OS X 10.8.5
RME Fireface 800 audio interface
Yamaha 02R v2 digital console
Cubase Pro 8 (new)
Pro Tools 11 (most of the times)
Logic Pro X (very occasional)

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That’s your problem right there. The template adds in Rack Effects.

I cannot corroborate your other issues - works as expected here.

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Ok thanks BriHar : indeed, new track, pure - was clean :slight_smile:
Freezing, like metering problem : solved after reboot.

Now remaining : third problem described above: why Cubase does not save monitors settings !!.. Ridiculous, this is the first DAW I have with this issue over a decade !!..

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The only note I can offer on your point 3, is that if you save the project (or at least in my case) then window positions and status are also saved. If I move windows, turn them off or on, then close the project (without saving), the next time I open it everything will be back as it was last time I opened the project.
Do the workspaces work for you, i.e. can you save and load them? This might be an alternative for some workflows - just load any project, and regardless of the window positions, you simply load your workspaces. (Just an idea, I’ve not tried this scenario in this particular context).

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Huumm… Finally updated to 8.0.5 - little improvement on the issue : if I just close the project (but not stop CB), it will reopen with windows in place on monitors as I left these.

However, if I shut down CB, next time I launch CB and open the project, everything’s back on one monitor !..

Not a huge deal, but yet annoying : all other DAWs I’ve used never did this…