Sometimes I forget to turn on my audio interface before launching Nuendo. If I quit Nuendo and then turn the audio interface on and then start Nuendo again, the result is that I’ve lost all audio connections; when I open my latest project, the audio driver has changed and I have to configure the audio device and related connections with it all over again.
Is there anything I can do to avoid this annoying situation? Quite a heavy price for inadvertently starting devices in a wrong order.
Thanks.
Shouldn’t you be able to just quit without saving and then restarting after the interface has been turned on?
When I start Nuendo w/o drivers, it gives a warning. I cancel and quit, save nothing, no project loaded. Next time start Nuendo with drivers, load project: all audio connections gone (selected driver is reset).
I am on Nuendo 12.0.7
After a quick search, I wonder if something is being weird between possible older Nuendo folders and preferences like in this post?
Might be worth checking. Do you get the prompt of opening preferences upon restart of Nuendo?
Hmm… I haven’t had that happen to me in ages. Probably because I think I always remember to start things in the right order.
How about if you create a template project, save all necessary connections in relevant areas (i.e. save presets in Outputs tab, Control Room tab, and so on), and then when this happens you load your template first, possibly reload saved presets, close, and then reopen the project you were actually working on…?
That might work, thanks for help.
On the other hand, we are only a couple of months away from N13, and I’ve been told that it will solve all our problems for good.
@arimus this is definitely a thing. happens to me all the time. my workaround is to save the inputs/outputs/control room connections as presets in the connections panel.
yes it is quite painful to lose the control room configuration of the output… there is not much solution apart from reloading the configurations which have been saved. I think it would be a plus if Nuendo reloads it by default with an alert asking for the audio interface to be turned on. the proposed solutions work. I decided to buy an ignition system with remote control. so when I cut and or turn on I do it in the right order and this now avoids the problems of no sound card
yes on Mac it’s a real problem, on PC the compatibility is more permanent
I sympathize. I think that the proposed solution of destroying the preference file often works but this solution requires completely reconfiguring the inputs, outputs, the control room… but on the other hand deleting or renaming the folder often works
The situation is always a pain, especially with projects that have a large number of plug-in’s.
I have the same problem. Is there any solution for this problem after 3 years?
Nope! I get this all the time as I use different interfaces. Huge waste of time to not have any way of managing this. Though, to be fair, other daws cannot do this either, but there are better work arounds for those. Here is another example of how the whole in/outs are outdated. I have to keep different XLM files for different sound cards, keep short cut folders on my deskop and replace the externalplugins.xml as needed. Not very “pro,” especially after so many years.
This is exactly what I do. I have two audio interfaces on my PC: a Yamaha AIC128D (PCIe Dante card) and a Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 (USB-A). Sometimes I use the Focusrite for local monitoring, so I just save Input, Output, and Control Room presets in Audio Connections a have never had an issue switching between them. Of course, be sure that in Studio->Studio Setup you have the correct audio interface selected before selecting the Audio Connection presets you want to use.
Thanks for your feedback. Steinberg really needs to take a good hard look at itself here. Because this simply isn’t on. That’s the only drawback I can see with Nuendo. Even if other DAWs can’t do it either.
I was hopeful that the new Hub in V15, would offer some kind of preset, that withstood preference deletion but alas there is no improvement here other than convenience.
The same advice still holds true: use the preset system of the Audio Connections dialog. It is much faster to recall the presets compared to setting up everything by hand.
Yes, that’s clear. But surely it can’t be right that you now have to reconfigure this every single time you restart, just because you once forgot to activate the audio interface when restarting Nuendo. That would be like having to connect all the power cables to every piece of kit in the recording studio first thing every morning. Steinberg needs to come up with a solution for this in an update. I’ll be phoning support again today.
Oh? Recalling the preset once is not enough?
Maybe it’ll help you in the short term to save the template anew after having made the connections correctly. In case you are working with templates.
Edit: Just saw in your other topic you already found this solution.
I have a template purely for the purpose of recalling Audio Connections presets.
Hey, thank you, I’ll try the template trick when I return to the studio. I still dream of a single “audio preset” which includes input / output / external fx / control room as well as audio device setup 
- using a laptop that navigates between audio devices, I spend too much time dealing with I/O management. I invested in Omnibus but for tracking (or using external fx) I get weird latency issues.