.mid import crash

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Hi, forgive me I’m not sure how to file a bug report. This is my first. I have just read the forum post about it and I’ll just try:

So, here are the steps I took until it happened, today, 5 minutes ago. I installed the Cubase Pro 15 trial and it crashed after 2 minutes of usage because of some .mid file import.

  1. Install Windows 10 (because I wanted to have it stable) on Intel 11th gen PC, 8GB RAM (I ran short on RAM)
  2. Install drivers for Intel GPU. Also install Renoise and Reason.
  3. Restart, connect to internet. Install Cubase Pro 15 trial.
  4. Start the trial and open a “Symphonic Orchestra” template.
  5. Click around, dragging arranger clips for 10 seconds.
  6. Go to menu - file and import a certain .mid file.

I can make the .mid file shorter and less complex. I think it’s just a SMF type 0 file that a Roland Go keys entry level workstation wrote. Those have 4 tracks and a bunch of midi events for settings. I would like to strip down the .mid file first, because my piano playing is embarrassing.

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Hi,

  • Can you always replicate the issue?
  • Have you tried with different *.mid file(s)?
  • Does it crash on the Import dialog or later? Did you see the import progress bar? Did the Project window with the data appear?
  • Did you choose to create a new project, or did you import into an existing project?

Thank you for the clarification.

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No, could not replicate it. Cubase crashed only once.

No, didn’t try other .mid files.

It did kind of crash on importing. I confirmed the open file dialog (the Cubase file dialog for asking for the path of the file to import), but then - after having that done - Cubase also wanted to create a project folder or something (that was then another file dialog for creating the folder), for which I chose a folder on the Desktop, which I created in the open/create file dialog (Windows allows that on the fly). After that it immediately crashed.

It was a new project, freshly created from a “Symphonic Orchestra” template.

Thanks, too!

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Hi,

Thank you for the details. Reported to Steinberg.