The "today I refuse to play sound" syndrome...

Nuendo
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This happens to me from time to time, can’t really find an answer or reason for it so was wondering if anyone else is seeing it too?

Ok, so I open Nuendo from scratch, open a project and it’s completely dead, no sound going anywhere, like here:

So I close the project,no save, close Nuendo and redo everything again, bam, now it works, without me touching or changing anything:

My only theory so far is that the Anymix can be a little dodgy and maybe have something to do with it but that’s about as far as I’ve come.

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I would guess it’s a problem with the sound card’d driver.

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I agree. It happens here from time to time but I couldn’t say that it was a Nuendo problem. It may be my UFX interface, a temporary sync issue or the PC just having a bad morning.

A reboot usually rectifies the problem.

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I had this when opening old project files on a previous version of Nuendo. As long as I use templates created on the current version with newly created projects I don’t have this problem. I’ve never been able to narrow down the issue. I think I was able to take events and copy/paste them to the same location/track and they started playing. It was weird. Come to think of it I think some played back but at the wrong timecode. So if I had an event at 01:10:00:00 it might have played back correctly starting at 01:14:30:14 or whatever. But copy/pasting it back to 01:10:00:00 got it to play back fine.

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As a possible solution,
go to Devices/VST Audio system/

Your Driver should be selected already in the dropdown menu.
CLick on the Reset button.

Not guaranteed, but well worth a try!

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Wouldn’t a driver problem only affect the output, not the internal Nuendo mixer?

As the fix is just restarting Nuendo it’s not that big a deal, would be interesting to know the reason that’s all. :slight_smile:

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I used to have this when working on a project with the firewire Alesis thingy.
Never got this via pcie with my RME.

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@AlexBell

What are you using that allows for your mixconcole view as shown in the video?

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That’s the Nuage mixer window.

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Well, today, Friday the 13th, I walked in and fired up my system and…no sound! New sessions from working templates, new sessions from scratch, sessions that worked yesterday, nothing plays audio UNLESS I disable Control Room. Rebooting did not help. ProTools and Twisted Wave work fine via the RME I/O, only Nuendo will not play via the ADAT outputs (again, unless Control Room is disabled).


UPDATE: I trashed prefs and rebuilt them, replacing them from the old prefs folder; the defaults preference appears to be the culprit.