KVR Audio

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:18 pm

Hey guys. I have a strange problem: after upgrading to Cubase 5.5, I seem to have lost most of my content on MediaBay. I tried rescanning, adding & removing drives, trashing my preferences/database, etc, but MediaBay seems to be incapable of showing any of my custom loops, and only shows 2 files under VST Sound/Drum&Perc/Beats. There should be hundreds! Anybody know what's going on?

Screencaps:

Only 2 loops. Really?

"LOOPS" is totally blank.

koolkeys · Post by **koolkeys** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:23 pm

Hey, but at least you sound better than other DAWs, right?

Brent

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:24 pm

koolkeys wrote:Hey, but at least you sound better than other DAWs, right?

Brent

Oh that goes without saying (in my sig).

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 6:45 pm

So Brent, in your brief stint with Cubase, did you get familiar with MediaBay?

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:06 pm

This happened to me once with a previous upgrade (but not with 5.5). It turns out that I just never gave Cubase a chance to fully re-populate. Once I left it alone for a bit (couple of hours as I recall), that seemed to have done the trick.

YMMV of course.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:10 pm

BERFAB wrote:This happened to me once with a previous upgrade (but not with 5.5). It turns out that I just never gave Cubase a chance to fully re-populate. Once I left it alone for a bit (couple of hours as I recall), that seemed to have done the trick.

YMMV of course.

Really? Huhn. I swear I've given it time...I'll leave it open overnight and see what happens, thanks!

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:21 pm

Yeah silly,it's like wine. It isn't 100% the day you buy it but it gets better and better as it matures.

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:26 pm

jupiter8 wrote:Yeah silly,it's like wine. It isn't 100% the day you buy it but it gets better and better as it matures.

Funny, I'd say it's getting funky with age...

jupiter8 · Post by **jupiter8** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:31 pm

bduffy wrote:
jupiter8 wrote:Yeah silly,it's like wine. It isn't 100% the day you buy it but it gets better and better as it matures.
Funny, I'd say it's getting funky with age...

The wine or Cubase ?

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:45 pm

jupiter8 wrote:
bduffy wrote:
jupiter8 wrote:Yeah silly,it's like wine. It isn't 100% the day you buy it but it gets better and better as it matures.
Funny, I'd say it's getting funky with age...
The wine or Cubase ?

Cubase. Well, Mediabay, specifically. I think it's been corked.

UltraJv · Post by **UltraJv** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 7:52 pm

jupiter8 wrote:
bduffy wrote:
jupiter8 wrote:Yeah silly,it's like wine. It isn't 100% the day you buy it but it gets better and better as it matures.
Funny, I'd say it's getting funky with age...
The wine or Cubase ?

Maybe this is why people are noticing audio differences between DAWs, they arnt allowing the DAW to breathe for a few hours before use

tropicalontour · Post by **tropicalontour** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:08 pm

If DAWs are like wine, I wish Cubase was a little bit more seedless.

BERFAB · Post by **BERFAB** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:17 pm

Man, you guys can really milk a metaphor...

bduffy · Post by **bduffy** » Wed Sep 08, 2010 8:34 pm

Yes, good mixing (metaphors) skills!

cubic13 · Post by **cubic13** » Sun Sep 12, 2010 8:14 am

Happened exactly the same here after Cubase 5.5 update. Here is what I did (I'm under XP Pro) :

1) In the following location :
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Steinberg\Cubase 5
remove the following files (I transferred them in another location, just in case) :
mediabay3.db
scannedFolders3.bin
2) Start Cubase and go into Medaibay : a whole scan is immediatly starting. Just have to wait until the whole process is achieved.
3) Done ! All the valid presets are again in the database.

If you are working with Vista or 7, the files are somewhere else, but I guess that doing the same thing will lead to the same results. Hope this will help.

Mediabay + Cubase 5.5 = WTF?