This happened twice, and it’s a rather annoying bug because I’m working on a project that takes several minutes to open and several to close. The first time I thought I had accidentally changed something, but it just happened again and I know I didn’t do anything I wasn’t supposed to.
The project I’m working on is 24/48. When I did a mixdown earlier and another just now, I set it to open in Wavelab Pro 12, since I got used to get the project sounding as good as possible in Cubase Pro 14 and then export a WAV to Wavelab to do the final touch, or mastering.
We all know how much of a pain in the butt it is when you’re working in a project in Cubase that is one sample rate, and then you open something else in another program, and Cubase hits you with the annoying dialog that there’s a difference in sample rate, etc, etc, if you don’t change the sample rate, it asks you if you want to convert the audio files, and so on. Terribly annoying when considering that Cubase uses ASIO, and the rest of the system uses WASAPI or whatever it’s called.
Well, it seems to me that this bug occurs when selecting that choice that sends the mixdown to Wavelab Pro once it’s rendered. Obviously this shouldn’t happen because the file I exported was the same bit and sample rate. I would expect this if I had chosen to export it as 24/96 for example, but I didn’t.
Even worse, when that annoying popup appears, I normally disregard it, and just save the project and then open it again. Well, this time it decided to convert my project to 96 Khz but keeping it at 48. Sure, this doesn’t make any sense, but what I have now is a project that plays at half speed. So this is all seriously annoying. Now I need to set the project to 96 Khz, and this is a rather large project, so not the kind of project that I would choose that sample rate for.
So it’s not the end of the world, but just to be safe, it’s better to leave that setting off and then just load the file in Wavelab Pro manually.