For a while now Cubase has behaving strangely when I name or select tracks. It will suddenly jump to another track in the project window, either after I’ve pressed ‘return’ when naming a track, or sometimes when I select a track, it will jump to the one below.
It appears to be random and intermittent. Sometimes I can go a whole session without it happening, other times it’s like there’s a second person with a mouse trying to control Cubase! Often a restart will fix it.
If you’re using an external controller and you’re naming your tracks the same thing then you’ll get behaviour like you’re describing. Best to make sure every track is named differently.
not sure - maybe. Might be worth experimenting with. Or at least unplugging whatever controller you’ve got hooked up and seeing if you still get the problem.
Has anyone experienced similar? It’s true that it only starts happening when I’m building up a lot of tracks in the project. If I start an empty project and add a few audio tracks, for example, the track selection is proper.
The jumping around is really hurting my workflow (and eyes).
Would be glad to hear if someone got to the bottom of this issue?
For me it was my Nektar controller keyboard, I could only stop the jumping by uninstalling the software that came with it. As mentioned earlier in the thread, apparently it’s connected to track naming confusing the controller.
An easy way to sort this problem would probably be to just not use mixconsole 1 as your main mixer. Use 2 instead and just have mixconsole 1 as inputs or something similar.
The Nektar thing is an issue. I have a Panorama P1 and you have only 4 spaces for a name so you have to be a bit creative there. It doesn’t happen if you don’t use the controller.
The track names themselves are the same but if you aren’t displaying the audio tracks in mixconsole 1 - only VCAs or Groups or Input channels then you wont have the problem of the Nektar going ape when it thinks you’ve got dual names because most of the names aren’t being displayed. Ie it’s taking the names from mixconsole 1 - so reduce the amount of names you have in mixconsole 1 is what im saying.
I am having this problem as well, but I have a fix for this.
Since Nektar is using the option to auto select a track when moving a slider from the mixer panel, just untick the option, “Enable Auto Select” (Studio > Studio Setup > Nektar Panorama x) See Attachment.
Just for anyone else still running into this issue, the only thing that fixed it for me was disabling ‘Sync selection in Project Window & Mix Console’, under the editing tab in preferences.
Disabling all midi controllers didn’t help, giving tracks unique names didn’t help. For whatever reason Cubase was just not able to execute that sync correctly, which is fine for me because I never use the Mix Console.
What a disaster this is… im so frustrated with this and cant figure it out… tried so many things… cant finish a track here… steinberg must be aware of this… i select a track in the main project window and it randomly jumps to another channel i cantfigure it out…
