I don’t like to rant by why does this always happen to me, I’m quite happily working on a project I save it, then when I come back to it all of a sudden the project will crash on loading. it reports a certain plugin problem that has never given me any issues before. in this current case a synth that has been on an instrument track for days untouched, no extra plugins loaded on it, no updates. just all of a sudden I can not load the project anymore unless I remove the vst synth.
does anyone else get this random problem?
I did notice when I last worked on the track I was getting some high cpu usage, trouble is cubase for some reason can not tell me what track/channel or plugin is causing a cpu usage. cubase can do some extraordinary things but for some reason can’t show you some as simple as CPU usage!
Sometimes it helps to remove the plug-in from the folder, so Cubase doesn’t load it. Then open the project, save it with the missing plug-in. Then put the plug-in back to the folder, start Cubase and load the project again.
I would like to investigate more on this, because this happens time to time to some users. But I haven’t met it so far.
I recently had the same issue and it was due to one of the nodes in a synth slot becoming corrupted causing the project size to eventually balloon up to a size that’s too large to load based on whatever 32 bit limitations Cubase has. You could look at the steps I used to debug and fix that problem: