Strange crashy behaviour when using Create Slices in Hitpoint section

Repro C15:

  • Load a project and import an audio file
  • Select Audio file and Go to Sampler Editor in lower zone
  • Ensure you have some hitpoints showing
  • In the Sampler Editor’s Inspector Panel, Open The HitPoints Section
  • Under the Create heading you will see “Slices”

Click on this button and the whole audio file vanishes from the Sample Editor and the Project Menu. No audio slices.

Fix - (sometimes) simply press undo. Sometimes there is a full Cubase crash.

I am deep learning the Sample Editor at the moment, so this may be my newbie mistake.

Ideas folks?

Z

Are you running 15.0.6? It seems like it has been fixed (I checked this specific issue yesterday), but for some reason it wasn’t mentioned in the release notes.

Yes 15.0.6. build 139. PC Win 11 latest. Intel(R) Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz (3.70 GHz) 64 gb ram. Win 25H2
Z

Marker tracks in this menu is also not working. After selecting Markers from the create menu. A marker track open in the project menu, but no entries, even thoughI do have hitppoints in the track.
Correction. I have discovered that it’s not enough to select the part in the project menu. You must slect a region in the Sample Editor - then markers will appear.
Z

Did some more testing. Pretty much all of these tools are either crashing Cubase or now working as I expected. Create MIDI Notes, creates a MIDI track with nothing in it. my Audio is a solo piano, rubato style.

Warp Markers does not seem to be working either . I followed the manual and afterwards activated the audio warp tool. i can see no changes.
Bear in mind I have not been this way before. Is there something that needs selecting before the tool is implemented?

Z

The Groove action also dsoes not seem to work. When clicked it does add a groove to the quantize but there are no tempo changes

Z

Could you share a screenshot of where you do this?

Before I updated, it would just crash every time I hit the “power” button for slice. I haven’t spent much time using the Sampler, and (having re-read your post more carefully) it seems like you’re running into something else.

I am away from my machine the hit points section is in the left zone of the Sample Editor

Look out: The Sample Editor has nothing to do with the Sampler Track. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

LOL, yeah, I realized there was a mix-up in terminology there.

Now that I’m looking in the Sample Editor…

I tried to slice a sample–it worked–but the window did close immediately, and I had to double-click on the event in the project window to re-open it. That seems like an issue. I’m not sure if the new window is right or not (last screenshot). I didn’t get any crashes though, after trying the steps only 4 or 5 times.

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I can confirm the behaviour you describe, except for the fact that I wouldn’t call it to *re-open’ when I click the event in project window; it opens in ‘the part editor’. I think that this is the normal behavior.

  1. You open the event in sample editor by clicking the event in the project window.
  2. you creating hitpoints in the sample, and select create ‘slices’, which convert the event to slices in a part.
  3. when you do this there’s no more events to display in the sample editor, so it goes black, as in your picture.
  4. when you click the ‘part’ in the project window, you open the ‘part editor’, and can edit and manipulate the slices there.

If there should be posible to see the slices in the sample editor, I don’t know honestly. But using and editing the slices can be done both in project window and the part editor.

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I am going to run some strict tests today. I am still unsure that it is not my user mistakes here.
So, if/when I find them I will post them in a fresh post, in a stricter, more informative format. At the moment, for me the menu list “Create” in the Sample Editors Inspector is not doing what i expect it to do, and there have been multiple Cubase crashes.

Z

I might say the sample I am using is not an easy one. It’s very rubato. Chopin solo piano. It has lead silence and then a very free flurry before establishing a beat, which it then toys with. I am using this because I want to use Cubase orchestrally.

Z