I have had a weird issue since installing Cubase 15 on my Windows laptop. It’s running the latest version of Cubase 15, Windows 11 Pro, on a Dell Precision 3561 laptop that had a fresh install of the OS when I bought it refurbished on eBay a couple weeks ago. I use a Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 (1st gen) and an Alesis V49 keyboard controller plugged in via USB.
I have a project file that uses the Vital VST synth on several tracks. It will randomly stop recording any MIDI input from the controller. When I have plugin open I can trigger sounds, they are audible through the Scarlett, and the level meters appear on the track view. So I know there is MIDI getting into Cubase from the keyboard.
I checked all my MIDI routing settings in the Inspector, which appear to be correct, but I can share them if that helps.
I can monitor and arm the tracks normally, but when I hit record nothing is being added to the timeline. It doesn’t even create a new MIDI event. The track remains blank.
A few weeks ago on the same project it was definitely working, but prior to that it had stopped working. It seems random. Last night I opened the same project again, and nothing - no MIDI recording. Even on tracks that I previously recorded to, I could no longer record new MIDI information.
I tried multiple times to delete the track and start a new one. I even tried Retrologue instead of Vital as an experiment to rule out a glitch with Vital. Same thing - no MIDI recording.
The last thing I tried was to close that project, start a new project, and add a new track to that project with the same settings that I had used on the broken project. That fixed it!
Has anyone else experienced this? Why would it randomly stop working in one project, but opening a new project worked fine?