Ok, Cubase.. happy to hear that: One of the files this plug-in needs cannot be found, please reinstall or contact technical support for assistance.
But you’re not gonna tell me WHAT plugin!? JESUS…
You might consider providing some more information, such as “what plug-in are you using that requires the unknown file?” When I read what you posted, that message isn’t “some plug-in needs something,” but rather, “the plug-in you’re using now needs a file we don’t know about.”
The more information you can give, with screenshots where appropriate, the better folks around here can try and help you.
in case it wasn’t clear.. that’s my point. what plugin.. I have no idea? well I do NOW because after googling it for a while someone had the same problem with izotopes plugins and I think it was Ozone 11 causing the issue. but I have .. A LOT of plugins and cubase gave no more than that text as a warning before crashing. over and over. a screenshot would have consisted of .. a screenshot of that text.
A DAW hosting 3rd party VSTs doesn’t necessarily know which VST is throwing an error when the VST itself is reporting some operational error. If they knew, they would probably tell you. This is true for any DAW, really - but there are various dependancies required for proper error attribution in multi-tiered sub-processes.
What I do in those cases is simply look and see what plug-ins are loaded, and which ones could potentially have their own file-based dependancies and start from there.
If you have a hundred different plug-ins, then systematic examination may be required. An easy way to help identify this is to open a new project and import track-by-track and see which one errors out. But there are multiple ways you can approach it.
It’s worth exploring because the DAW won’t necessarily know what the plugin was.
I have the same issue BUT CUBASE WILL NOT START, will not load any third party plugin, and I have more that 100 of them. It only happenned after updating Sequoia 15 to 15.6 on am Mac Mini 4 Pro. With Cubase 14 Pro. Reinstalling Cubase did not help. Nor did Installing 13. I can boot disabling third party plugins but that won;t help as in the plugin manager I can only see the Steinberg plugins. Emptying the plugin folder and than placing 1 by 1 … and starting Cubase ….. will be a hell of a way …. is there anyone who understands the problem and knows the solution, please?
Sometimes, that’s the fastest solution.
You could try restoring them in blocks of 5. When you get the failure you’ll know it’s within the last 5 you restored. You can narrow it down from there.
Still tedious but sometimes it’s the only way.
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Lol…..well you could get lucky or it could take you 99 restarts.
Empty your plugin folder……Add 50% back in, start Cubase, if it works add 50% of the remaining plugs and restart, when it fails take out 50% of the ones you just added……do it alphabetically and make notes if necessary so you know where you got to.
So with 100 plugs, after 1 restart you’re down to 50 possible, 2 you’re down to 25, 3 down, to 12 or 13, 4 down to 6 or 7……you should find the problem plug in 6 restarts max.
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