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antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:37 am

Well, I just had a WTF?! moment with Cubase yesterday evening.

I opened it, added some normal stuff to a project I've been toying with - new tracks, few clips, automation, etc. - and when I was closing it Windows blue screened on me. For 5-10 seconds I had no idea what's going on, because I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING WINDOWS BLUE SCREEN in the last couple of years, so it looked different to what I remembered.

So if that wasn't enough, when I booted back and launched Cubase, it acted as if I only just installed it - all my custom settings, keyboard shortcuts, colour palette, VST paths, etc. were gone! Luckily the templates and projects were still there. So I had to spend 1+ hours setting everything back like I want it...

Well, Cubase definitely is unique

Tj Shredder · Post by **Tj Shredder** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:10 am

In Max/MSP it used to happen, if you change settings they are only saved when you quit. They are lost on crashes. I have the feeling, this is convenient for the devs, it can be a catastrophe for the users…
These apps need a setting to save settings when you set them…

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:26 am

antic604 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:37 am I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING WINDOWS BLUE SCREEN in the last couple of years
Well, Cubase definitely is unique

Might be something to do with the protection stuff?
I've not seen BSOD since 2013 I put this machine up

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 4:44 pm

It seems doubtful Cubase deleted preferences from disk. BSOD more typically signals a hardware problem, Cubase causing it per se is absurd.

In Cubase, the key commands are in the highest folder of Preferences; there is a "UserPreferences' there, which is where the toolbar setup lives; in Presets there is a RAM Presets which is where CC lane presets live, and a Windows Layout in there, self-explanatory. Also there's a subfolder Project Templates (which I don't see any use in, these are just .cpr files).
So there are the ones I don't want to lose and have to set up all over again. There are around 70 Preference defaults I have to change as it is, rebuilding prefs

that said, if it's 11 and one's experience is like mine, it forgets some of this the majority of launches. Global Tracks in Key Editor (1 of 2 reasons I don't just use 10.5) rarely is correct coming back to a project.

jamcat · Post by **jamcat** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 5:04 pm

antic604 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:37 am Well, I just had a WTF?! moment with Cubase yesterday evening.

As in, “WTF am I booting up Cubase when I have Studio One?!”

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:19 pm

jamcat wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 5:04 pm
antic604 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:37 am Well, I just had a WTF?! moment with Cubase yesterday evening.
As in, “WTF am I booting up Cubase when I have Studio One?!”

In that case, I'm in a constant state of WTF with Bitwig, Cubase, FL, Live, Reason & Studio One

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 8:45 pm

antic604 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 7:37 am Well, I just had a WTF?! moment with Cubase yesterday evening.

I opened it, added some normal stuff to a project I've been toying with - new tracks, few clips, automation, etc. - and when I was closing it Windows blue screened on me. For 5-10 seconds I had no idea what's going on, because I DON'T REMEMBER SEEING WINDOWS BLUE SCREEN in the last couple of years, so it looked different to what I remembered.

So if that wasn't enough, when I booted back and launched Cubase, it acted as if I only just installed it - all my custom settings, keyboard shortcuts, colour palette, VST paths, etc. were gone! Luckily the templates and projects were still there. So I had to spend 1+ hours setting everything back like I want it...

Well, Cubase definitely is unique

just a warning, saw the title, thought it was an intrancer thread

make of that, what you will.

Passing Bye · Post by **Passing Bye** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:13 pm

^ Same hahahaha

Passing Bye · Post by **Passing Bye** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:14 pm

Once I made a track in one DAW.

THE INTRANCER · Post by **THE INTRANCER** » Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:50 pm

Beta testing....

antic604 · Post by **antic604** » Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:57 am

vurt wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 8:45 pmjust a warning, saw the title, thought it was an intrancer thread
make of that, what you will.

Lol. I thought of that when I was writing it

I just didn't wanted to make it about Cubase specifically, because I believe it was some freak one-off fluke, but still wanted to write about it.

THE INTRANCER · Post by **THE INTRANCER** » Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:03 am

And I was just going to create a thread about how you can end up being locked in your cupboard after using the DAW you hate most.

PeterP_swe · Post by **PeterP_swe** » Mon Oct 25, 2021 8:36 am

If you run "perfmon /rel" in Win10 then it opens the Reliability Monitor app and you can click on the last BSOD crash and get more info about it. It usually tells you the Stop Code and you can look that up for more details.

It's likely to be a hardware or driver issue.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:11 pm

THE INTRANCER wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:03 am And I was just going to create a thread about how you can end up being locked in your cupboard after using the DAW you hate most.

you should, im sure it's a very common issue.

legendCNCD · Post by **legendCNCD** » Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:38 pm

PeterP_swe wrote: ↑Mon Oct 25, 2021 8:36 am If you run "perfmon /rel" in Win10 then it opens the Reliability Monitor app and you can click on the last BSOD crash and get more info about it. It usually tells you the Stop Code and you can look that up for more details.

It's likely to be a hardware or driver issue.

Or get WhoCrashed or similar which'll analyze and tell you the driver / hardware culprit

Things that never happened to you in other DAWs :o