Key Editors Limit Option

Cubase
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I’m experiencing frequent daily crashes due to opening too many key editors.
It would be a great help with a setting that could limit the amount of open editors to 1, so any new Open Editor command replaces the old one.
(I can’t work with Editor content follows event selection checked, for multiple reasons.)

If anyone have other workarounds I’d love to hear them too.
I’m on Cubase 15.0.6, Windows 11 and the graphics card is a GTX 1660 (6gb). I have a feeling this might be solvable with a faster graphics card, but having a limit on open editors would probably be great regardless.

Best, M.

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That is the setting afaik.

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Thank you mlib. Sure that setting keeps the editor count to 1, but at the cost of ‘following event selection.’ I’m suggesting an editor which is independent of selection, but still only keeps to one editor instance. I often times need to edit an event where I don’t want the editor to update.

An alternative could be the addition of a ‘Close all editors’ command, or something to that tune, and we’d be able to make a macro that closes one instance upon opening a new one.

Best, M.

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I think the better strategy would be to find out why your Cubase is crashing when opening too many key editors (how many is “too many”?). This should simply not happen imho. Worst case it’s a bug that should be reported to Steinberg.

Can you upload one or two of your crash dumps? (“Documents\Steinberg\Crashdumps” folder).

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Only one Editor is needed at any one time, due to the Visibility Inspector, available since V13.

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Thank you fese. Here’s a crash dump from today. (Too big to upload directly)
Edit: Cubase starts to become really unstable with around 8 open instances of the editor.

I really appreciate it.

Best, M

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I agree.

Best, M.

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I had a look at the crash dump, and it is clearly a crash in Cubase itself.

EXCEPTION_RECORD:  (.exr -1)
ExceptionAddress: 0000000143179092 (Cubase15+0x0000000003179092)
   ExceptionCode: c0000005 (Access violation)
  ExceptionFlags: 00000000
NumberParameters: 2
   Parameter[0]: 0000000000000000
   Parameter[1]: ffffffffffffffff
Attempt to read from address ffffffffffffffff

Cubase tries to read from an invalid memory address (probably use-after-free bug).

I don’t know whether this is an already reported error, but I would open a support ticket at Steinberg, tell exactly how to reproduce the issue and send a link to the crash dump.

You can also click “Send log files to Steinberg” in the safe mode dialog that appears the next time you start Cubase after a crash.

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Thank you fese. I sincerely appreciate it.
We’re lucky to have people like you around.
I have opened a ticket with Steinberg to address the issue.

Best, M.