Hello,
I’m relatively new to recording. I recently started learning Cubase and ran into a problem. I’ve been working on a track for a few days now, and today when I launched Cubase I received an error message that said “The application was terminated with an error while executing the following file: /VST3/Opus.vst3”. So I quit Cubase, relaunched and there was no error. Then, I started playing my track and noticed that the instruments sounded different. Something was off. When I compared it to the WAV file I bounced the night before, I could tell that volume / expression of certain instruments were higher / lower, panning was off and that some effects I used such as reverb weren’t sounding the same. As far as I could tell, the automation values hadn’t changed. I didn’t make any changes to the track or software between the time I saved / closed down yesterday and today when I first opened it.
I did some brief research and was told(by AI) that this is a common occurrence with VSTs / MIDI, and that the best way to avoid it is to freeze every single MIDI track at the end of the day and render it in place. That doesn’t seem like a solution; more like a workaround. Is this actually normal behavior? Now I get the feeling that I can’t trust my software. What 90 Expression sounded like yesterday now sounds like 120 today. Yesterday, 2 + 2 equaled 4, but today it equals 5.
I even error checked my computer and found nothing. It seems to be isolated to Cubase / Opus. Does anyone know what happened? If so, how can I fix it and avoid it in the future?
Thank you.