Hi All,
I have 5 versions of Cubase. Do they all share the same pref folder or do they each have their own? If they are separate, how do you tell them apart? Are they labeled?
I would like to trash the 10 Pro prefs but not tamper with the others. All the rest are fine.
Final question, If I like the prefs for 9.5 Pro, can I make a duplicate of that for 10 Pro or are each version’s prefs proprietary?
Thanks for your thoughts!
Will
Hi,
Every single Cubase version has its own Preferences folder. Cubase Preferences folders are:
Mac: ~/Library/Preferences/Cubase X
Win: %appData% Steinberg/Cubase _X__64
So in your case, you would see:
If you delete just Cubase 10.5 preferences folder, the other folders remain untouched. So once you start Cubase 10.5 (for the first time after deleting the preferences), Cubase 10 preferences will be inherited. There is a mechanism to inherit an older Cubase preferences to the new one. Cubase tries to inherit the preferences back up to 2 major versions. That means to Cubase 10.5 the preferences of Cubase 10, 9.5, 9 and 8.5 would be inherited. If you would have only Cubase 7 preferences in your folder, this wouldn’t be inherited to Cubase 10.5.
Yes, you can copy and rename your Cubase 9.5 preferences folder to Cubase 10.5. But if you don’t have Cubase 10 preferences, you don’t have to do this. Cubase 9.5 preferences would be inherited to Cubase 10.5 automatically after the very first Cubase 10.5 start.
This inherit feature might be sometimes also tricky. Imagine you have an issue in your Cubase 10.5 preferences, but the issue might sits in Cubase 10 preferences already. You trash your Cubase 10.5 preferences folder, start Cubase 10.5 and the issue remains. I always recommend to ZIP all preferences folder (as a backup) and delete them all in these cases. Then you are sure, Cubase starts with factory settings (preferences).
Thank you for your complete and thorough explanation Martin. This helps a lot!
To further on this topic, if I used the window after Cubase crash to delete the preference on, say, Cubase 13, will it still inherit preference from Cubase 12?
And what does deleting preference mean in this case? I tried to disable preference with that window. Aside from my control room being disabled, everything else seems to have been maintained, including, most importantly, the customized key commands.
Hi,
Yes, it will.
Delete the preferences means, Cubase 13 forgets its custom settings. If you start it next time (after the deletion), Cubase 13 takes the Cubase 12 preferences folder, copies it and renames it to the Cubase 13 preferences folder. So all your Cubase 12 settings will migrate to Cubase 13.
To get factory settings, delete all Cubase version preferences folders (in fact, 2 major versions back is enough, Cubase doesn’t migrate the preferences down more than 2 major versions; in the Cubase 13 case, it’s Cubase 12 and Cubase 11 preferences folders).
Could you attach the *.ips/dmp file, please?
Mac: macOS Console utility > Crash Reports (or ~user/Library/Logs/Diagnostic Reports).
Win: %userprofile%/Documents/Steinberg/Crash Dumps
Yes. Thank you!
cubase 13 crash reports.zip (291.2 KB)
Hi,
These are *.diag files, not *.crash or *.ips files. Could you provide these, please?
Hi,
Can you see them in the Console utility, please?
Hi,
Yes. It means, the crash doesn’t come from Cubase at all. The Audio device is responsible for the crash. What Audio Device do you use, please? Do you have the latest driver installed? Is the driver compatible with your macOS version?
Got it thanks.
Yeah, it’s not really crash. Most of the time I force-quit Cubase because it stuck for a super long time either during the opening of the projects or when I’m using it. Interestingly, it would open if I open the projects that cause the hang without activating it, wait for the project to show, and then activate it. Sometimes even that causes the hanging, so I disable all the tracks, activate the project, and then activate the tracks one by one. This way would get most of my projects open, although it consumes a lot of time.
I have an RME HDSPe series with the latest compatible drivers. I’m using MAC OS Ventura on a Mac Pro 2019 intel-based.
