There are some threads on this in the “Issues” section, which doesn’t seem to be well-viewed.
On tracks with volume automation, they are now not playing any sound for me at all. I’ve never had this problem before, it just started today.
I’m working in 8.5. If I disable R automation, save and re-open the tracks all play as normal. If I turn Read on again the tracks with automation are silent. If I just touch the track fader with the mouse it sounds again, but on releasing the mouse the sound goes away again.
Even if I delete the automation track, I still don’t get sound.
In my example its VST / soft synth Instrument tracks (I don’t know if it same for other kinds of tracks).
Seems like this is an old issue, but I don’t find anywhere a fix for it - can anyone advise?
I did a search, and seems it was an 8.0.30 issue also.
It seems like some people have had the issue, but I imagine most do not (since its not widely reported) - so does that mean its not happening EVERY time volume automation is used? Can anyone confirm that they are NOT having this issue?
Edit : I did a quick test. New Project - one Instrument track (U-He Diva) - added some notes, plays back fine. As soon as I added a node in Volume automation track it cut out.
This is a strange one indeed, got one project from 8.3 and the only sound I can get out of it in 8.5 is if I click the listen button on any track! Main issue is its stopped the project playing back in 8.3! Fortunately it’s just a scratch pad that’s being built up but that’s not the point, gonna have to take a closer look and trash the preferences that were bought over from 8.3…
As reported in the Issues section, I have a colleague who experiences this problem, while the exact same project plays fine on my system. We’re both on .30 (him Artist, me Pro). It does seem to be either HW or situation dependent, but I’m totally at a loss in figuring out what’s wrong.
Thanks for the replies. It does seem like not everyone has this issue and the ones that do it can be permanent but also come and go. For me it seems to be on every project now.
I also contacted Steinberg, but no reply. Do they ever respond to mails or to any of the posts here? They MUST know its an issue, its in multiple posts going back months. Its infuriating that nobody seems to have got any official response.
I experienced this today in 8.5.
Never had a problem in 8.0.
I tried restarting 8.5, but every time I wrote volume automation. I tried the outputs of Groove Agent SE as well as a Group drum track. At first I thought it was a Groove Agent bug, so tried doing it with the group fader, but same problem. As soon as I clicked the red “w” to stop writing automation, the track would be silent.
I opened the same project in 8.0.3 and was able to write automation and play it back fine. I did not save the project in 8.0.3.
I then opened the same project in 8.5 and now it is writing and playing back automation fine. I saved the project in 8.5, re-opened it and automation is still playing back OK.
I hope the bug doesn’t come back for me, but if it does, I’ll try opening the project in 8.0.3 and then re-opening it in 8.5.
I’ve completed (2) projects in 8.5. Each project has about (20) tracks. Maybe (5) tracks in each project are audio. I have tons of volume automation on most audio, instrument and stereo out tracks. No issues at all (yet).
Also, I completed (1) similar as above project in 8.5 that I started in 8.0.30. Same results… no problems.
I’ve just gone back to 8.2.0. Totally bemused why no response either on these forums or to my emails from Steinberg. Shocked & dissapointed. Spent a lot of money and time. Feel let down.
Having exactly the same problem since today. That’s strange because I’m using Cubase 8.5 since the release day. Several restarts of Cubase solve the problem. But it’s time consuming with my huge projects.
