I have this very annoying issue where I boot up Cubase and although all VST connections are set properly, I get no sound. Things get weird since I can clearly see faders moving both in tracks and the main output bus but everything is silent. Even weirder is the fact that if I activate the metronome on play, is plays back just fine…
This occurs randomly on boot and most of the times when I swap projects. the only solution I have found is just shutting Cubase down several times until it magically starts proper playback again.
At the link you can find a video of this (tracks playing without sound, while metronome is ticking). In the video Cubase is running on Windows 10 but this is unrelated since I had this issue in Windows 8.1 too. This has been a problem only after v8.0.20. I have not changed my ASIO drivers in the meantime or any other part on my PC, software or hardware.