Project using MOTU Mach 5 plug-in won't load

[Keezix]

@Keezix

've been working on my first project which was started from scratch within Cubase Pro 8. When I attempt to open it in Cubase Pro 8, the spinning beach ball of death appears (which never stops)! No activity can be performed in this state. A force-quit is required. There is nothing unusual about this project. There are only a handful of tracks used, most of which are external MIDI tracks. There is currently only one brief audio track, which currently has no inserts, sends or other processing. There is however, an instrument track running MOTU Mach 5 sampler as a VST plug-in (latest version), with one instrument assigned.

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I still have no clues as to what was going on, but I did find a way to get around this issue:

1. Create a new unassigned MIDI track within the project in Cubase Pro 8 (Having just saved it in Cubase 7.5, which allows it to open in Cubase Pro 8)
2. transfer all the parts from the Instrument track containing the Mach 5 plug-in to the new MIDI track
3. Delete the Instrument track
4. Assign the Mach 5 plug-in as a rack instrument (instead of an instrument track as before)
5. Assign the newly created MIDI track to the rack instrument version of the Mach 5 plug-in
6. Make sure everything plays back as before
7. Save the project
8. Close the project (or quit)
9. Open the project successfully. (Here’s where everything went wrong before)

By the way, I’m hardly a newby. I’ve been using Cubase professionally since it’s inception in 1989. This is the first time I’ve had a project not load! Since the project would no longer open at all in Cubase Pro 8, had I not had older Cubase versions and not been able to open it in Cubase 7.5, this project would have been toast! Weeks of work would have been down the drain, the client would have fired me, and I would probably hence forth be out of business! Very serious stuff this is Now I’ll see what happens going forward. Keeping fingers crossed!