Slightly different behavior than what is reported in other posts.
Solo and Mute buttons on individual tracks appear to work or not work randomly. e.g. When I solo one track, all tracks still play. However, only the soloed track’s level appears in VU meter. I do have the MIDI tracks used still in the project.
Not sure I can communicate how much time I’ve spent trying to fix this and how impossible it makes mixing. I’ve replaced tracks with newly recorded material and imported tracks from earlier projects. Nothing works. I’ve imported all tracks into a new project. and that does nothing. I have the latest Cubase 13 update so it’s not been fixed.
Hi,
What kind of tracks do you use? Audio, Instrument, MIDI, Group?
If you are using an Instrument/MIDI Tracks, do you use multitimbral and or the multi-outs? Are you aware of the difference between the Project window vs MixConsole Solo and Mute in this case?
Thanks, Martin. I use Audio and MIDI, no Instrument tracks. No Group.
This gets even worse. I just exported a track from the current project to an early version containing only one basic keyboard audio track. The track I exported was soloed and exported seemingly fine. When I imported it onto a track in the old version, only the imported track would play and the “follow” function would not show the waveform movement even though the track played and showed time position. No matter what I did I couldn’t hear the keyboard track in the Project I imported into. Surely a bug?
I really don’t want to have to re-record the 20 tracks that worked fine until a week ago. Any ideas or workaround suggestions greatly appreciated.
New one: I started a new empty project and created a new Audio track.
It opened with the Mute button activated. Sorry. That just doesn’t seem normal.
Hi,
Are the MIDI Tracks routed to a hardware synth?
Are you on Mac or Windows?
Could you try to Disable Preferences from the Safe Start dialog, please?
Thanks, Martin. MIDI Tracks routed to nothing.
Windows 11 Pro.
Away from studio and will delete Preferences later.
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Hi,
Why do you have the MIDI Tracks then? Could you attach a screenshot, please?
I have MIDI tracks in case I want to go back in and edit MIDI. That’s certainly not unusual.
Tried to delete preferences and they aren’t in the User/Steinberg/Cubase13 folder.
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"Listen…listen…listen.”
-Brian Wilson
Hi,
Cubase Preferences folders are:
Mac: ~/Library/Preferences/Cubase X
Win: %appData% \Steinberg\Cubase X_64
Where the X is the Cubase version (for example 13).
Okay. Back.
Yup, I’ve looked there and that’s where it normally is. No Preferences folder found.
Hi,
Then you are not in the user Library, but you are in the system Library instead.
Thanks for the quick reply, Martin.
I’m pretty sure this is the path I’ve always used:
Users/
“My file folder name”/AppData/Roaming/Steinberg/Cubase13_64
and there is no Preferences folder in there. I’ve easily found it before so not sure where it got stored.
Hi,
To me it looks like you are in the correct folder.
I don’t recall a distinct preferences folder being there. The preferences are usually stored in the folder that you and @Martin.Jirsak just mentioned as separate files. The scope of each of these files is described here:
Maybe you had some type of backup in a “Preferences” folder manually created and this is what you’ve previously deleted?
Thanks, Martin and M. C.
I’m a bit confused. Is there a folder called “Preferences”, and if there isn’t, what should I delete to change the random solo and mute behavior that I and others have noted?
Thanks.
www.sweetgrassmusic.com
"Listen…listen…listen.”
-Brian Wilson
No. This is the “preferences folder”:
\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\Steinberg\<program name>\
Hi,
As I mentioned:
So the path is for example:
Users/
“My file folder name”/AppData/Roaming/Steinberg/Cubase 13_64
This Cubase 13_64 is the preferences folder.