Plugin Loading Issues

digitalgeist · November 16, 2018, 4:01pm

macOS High Sierra - 10.13.6
Mid 2014 MacBook Pro
2.5GHz i7, 16GB RAM

I found some odd behavior with plugin effects yesterday while I was testing. I was loading and unloading plugins and it seemed randomly a plugin would be loaded in the insert strip via the mixer screen and nothing would happen. The window for the plugin wouldn’t appear and removing/adding that particular plugin again wouldn’t do change that. It was happening for 3rd party plugins and for Steinberg plugins (Frequency was one). Adding the same plugin to a neighboring channel - or another slot in the insert chain worked just fine.

bender_the_offender · November 16, 2018, 4:47pm

Are you able to reproduce this on a new/fresh project?

Another thing to try is to load Cubase in Safe Mode and retest.

Try these (if you haven’t already) and then we can go from there.

digitalgeist · November 16, 2018, 5:19pm

Are you able to reproduce this on a new/fresh project?

Another thing to try is to load Cubase in Safe Mode and retest.

Try these (if you haven’t already) and then we can go from there.

I was using a new, blank project with a single audio file to test. I wasn’t very scientific, just placing the effect in the first slot and replacing it with the next one to see if it would load. Eventually the weird behavior happened.

How do I start Cubase in Safe Mode?

Also I can try on my Mac Pro (same OS version) and see if I can recreate the issue there. Over this weekend I can test some more and see if I can isolate what causes it.

bender_the_offender · November 17, 2018, 3:35pm

ed_ruggers · November 22, 2018, 12:08am

Has the safe mode key combination for MacOS not changed? I thought it was just shift now - this article says Shift+Alt+Cmd?

bender-offender:

digitalgeist:

Are you able to reproduce this on a new/fresh project?

Another thing to try is to load Cubase in Safe Mode and retest.

Try these (if you haven’t already) and then we can go from there.

I was using a new, blank project with a single audio file to test. I wasn’t very scientific, just placing the effect in the first slot and replacing it with the next one to see if it would load. Eventually the weird behavior happened.

How do I start Cubase in Safe Mode?

Also I can try on my Mac Pro (same OS version) and see if I can recreate the issue there. Over this weekend I can test some more and see if I can isolate what causes it.

https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/knowledgebase_new/show_details/kb_show/safe-start-mode-resetting-the-cubase-preferences.html