Sudden White Noise when creating new Audio track

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Just having a recurrence of a big problem with trying to record guitar and or bass. I have the latest updates for 14 pro installed and am on a PC running windows 11. UR22C is being used.

I finished a project less than 2 weeks ago and all had been fine. Trying to start a new project now, and every time I’m setting up an Audio track (not an Instrument track), as soon as the monitor switch is activated there is nothing but white noise. I’ve checked and re-checked audio connections and ports. There are no activated 3rd party plugins in any template as the track is created. The noise is there immediately, and nothing can be done. I’ve also gotten the latest firmware/driver for the UR22c from the Yamaha site, but that didn’t help.

This same thing had happened over a month ago, and I somehow got it to work without that white noise issue, but I can’t find a solution now, or replicate what had remedied it before. One point is that I’d recently worked on projects from cubase 11 that necessitated utilizing my elicenser for now absent softsynths like Spector and Retrologue. Having done that, might that have messed things up now for a fresh project being created in 14?

I’ve also gone back to recent projects that were trouble free, but in trying to add a new audio track to them as a test, the White Noise experienced for brand new projects is evident there too. I’m at the point of considering an uninstall and reinstall of Cubase 14, but before doing that, I’m hoping to see if anyone has other ideas.

Thanks.

John

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Don’t do that as a fist step (or even a fifth step). It almost never resolves anything.

Can you post a screenshot of a Track doing this. Make sure to include the Inspector showing the Track’s routing, Inserts & Meter signal.

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cubase 14 2926-01-10.zip (483.4 KB)

That’s a zip folder containing the screenshots you’d requested. Thanks.

Since posting this zip folder of screenshots, I noticed a microphone icon from Windows was dispayed in the lower right of my screen. I clicked on that and saw what apps and programs can access my microphone. Cubase could not, and when I gave it access, my white noise issue vanished. Too soon to know that this sorted out the issue, but I have no idea whether that microphone “permission” had somehow gotten reset. Furthermore, should it be necessary to it to have Cubase access in order for Cubase to work?

The microphone that’s being mentioned is not a mic that’s utilized for a Cubase project. It seems to be some sort of built-in thing in Windows.

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The microphone is a symbol for any kind of audio input, not just microphones. This is true for both Windows and macOS. A bit misleading for us audio folks but totally fine for all audio muggles.

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