Project length changes spontaneously

Cubase
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I’m using Cubase Artist 7.5.40. When I create a new project, I go into Project Setup and set the length to, say 4:00. At various apparently random times while working on the project, Cubase will change the length to 9:00. I go back into Project Setup and set the length back to 4:00; some time later I see again that the length is once again 9:00. This has happened on numerous projects, and numerous times on each project. I don’t know exactly when it is changing because I don’t always notice that it’s different until I see that the horizontal scroll bar has become shorter, indicating that the project has become longer. Any ideas? Thanks.

2

Hi and welcome,

This could happen, when you record any event longer than 4 minutes, or if you insert any event at the time after 4mins.

3

Nope, I never touched anything beyond 3:30 in this project. I’m just working away on the project and suddenly noticed that it changed in length from my setting of 4:00 to Cubase’s choice of 9:00. Always 9:00.

4

I have had (and am still having) the same problem going back several versions of Cubase (I am on 6.5.5).
It happens every time, in every project that I work on.
Maybe Steinberg have fixed this annoying behaviour in later versions?
I work with music for film and need to jump around the main edit window a lot, zooming in and out a lot.
Often the project will be only for a specific short section of timecode for a maximum of 1-2 minutes.
Having 5 minutes of nothing added to the project each time I record is a huge pain.
I have searched high an low through all my preferences to see if I can switch this annoying behaviour off, but no luck.

Here is an (every time) repeatable dummy test demonstrating the problem:

  1. If I open a project and just listen to the end, then close after doing nothing (not even saving), it will **NOT**add the extra empty space of around 5 minutes.


    2.I start a new test project and set the project length to 2 mins - Project/Project setup 0:02:00:00
    1-project set up before record.png
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    Then record a test track and stop before the 2 minute end of the project, then save/close/re-open the project, it is still at 2 minutes length.
    2-recording a test track.png
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  2. If I do a record/drop-in halfway into the project at 1:40, as soon as I drop out of record, I see that Cubase has added 5 minutes of nothing to the project.
    3-after dropping in-7mins.png
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    I realise that perhaps I’m using an outdated version of Cubase, but I sure hope that Steinberg have fixed this in later versions :wink:
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I have same problem with Cubase 10.0.60 :frowning: