Steinberg Cubase 4 Issues Solutions Manual

							    Version History/Issues & Solutions Cubase 4.0.1 Page 1 of 4 Steinberg  Media Technologies GmbH Issues & Solutions  Cubase 4 / Cubase Studio 4 (4.0.1)  Cubase 4.0.1 / Cubase Studio 4.0.1 include major quality, performance and stability improvements over version 4.0.0. This update is recommended for all users. The following function areas have been improved in Version 4.0.1:   • The VST3 plug-in set has been improved for better performance and lower CPU load. In addition, some minor technical issues and user interface problems have been addressed.  • HALionOne, Prologue, Spector and Mystic have been updated to offer more overall stability and better performance. Some issuer interface issues have been addressed and missing parameters were added to the automation list • The entire VST3 preset content – including HALionOne presets – has been improved and will be replaced by the 4.0.1 updater. Existing user presets are not affected.  • MediaBay now offers more overall stability and better performance. Various technical issues have been addressed, together with several minor user interface problems. • The score editor had some graphics and stability problems, which have been resolved. • Foreign language localization has been further enhanced and some errors have been corrected.    The following table describes issues you may encounter using this software as well as possible workarounds   Issue ID Issue Solution 0001 Adjustments made on a remote controller affect real time audio mixdown. Don’t make adjustments on the remote controller during real time audio mixdown. 0012 Tracks with monitor on (manual) are not included in export audio mixdown. Turn input monitoring OFF before exporting. 0034 Tim Stretch Tool does not work on very small clips. Bounce to longer clip before time-stretching. 0078 Long recordings with AIFF, WAV, BWAV and SDII, which exceed the largest possible recording file supported by these file formats, will result in damaged recorded files. If you consider making recordings with duration longer than 4 hours in mono or longer than 1 hour in 5.1, select the WAV64 file format for recording in the project settings. 0231 Adding a very high number of tracks (audio or MIDI) at once can cause temporary unresponsiveness of the program. Add less tracks at once, e.g. groups of 20 tracks each. 0232 Loading two projects and editing them in the score editor   at the same time (switching between the projects) creates various   problems. Edit one project at a time in the score editor. 0233 If audio offline process is opened by a command from a remote, Preview   doesnt work. Use a regular key command instead to open offline process. 0234 MIDI panning in the inspector doesnt work with A1 VSTi.  Use audio output panning instead. 1325 Grouping of events does not work. Mixer window must not be set to Always on Top 1327 System Link - Synchronization is affected by Lower Latency ON or  OFF status when using the Steinberg VSL 2020 cards. Run VSL 2020 using Lower Latency OFF if you have sync  problems using System Link. 1338 Extract Audio from Video doesnt work with QuickTime 7 (PC). The imported audio is distorted. Use QuickTime 6 instead.  
						

							    Version History/Issues & Solutions Cubase 4.0.1 Page 2 of 4 Steinberg  Media Technologies GmbH 1352 After many hours of operation, crackling or noise might appear in the audio outputs. This problem varies depending on the CPU usage and the ASIO audio cards used. Reset ASIO device from time to time. 1362 Very small audio fades (only a few samples long) may cause clicks. Increase audio fade length. 1367 MPEX Time-stretch (Offline Processing): If portions of a clip are stretched, sometimes there are audible artifacts occurring at the end of the stretched range. Sounds like parts of the processed clips are repeated. The stretched part must be manually trimmed afterwards so that the repeating sound isnt audible anymore. 1468 A project with several hundreds audio tracks might crash if you duplicate them or add more tracks. No solution available at this time. 1799 Audio recording might fail if individual track recording folders were used and the record disk (e.g. Firewire device) has been removed. Re-assign track record folder before continuing recording. 1900 Wrong MTC is sent if Preroll is used and transport is started from 00:00:00:00 using 29.97 fps Set projects with NTSC frame rate to a project start time of 00:00:00:00. 2215 Video for Windows or QuickTime video players are not able to play back Windows Media Video files. Choose DirectShow Video player in Device setup to play back Windows Media Video files. 2545 After long audio recordings, sometimes there is a waveform Image Construction Error. Double-Clicking on the waveform inside Pool will recreate the image. 2592 [OSX only] While plug-ins Double delay or Mod Delay are in front, Cubase/Nuendo may crash if the arrow keys are used. Close these plug-ins or switch to project window before using the arrow keys. 2665 MediaBay Scope Window cannot display the waveforms of SDII audio files. If you need to work with files that are still in SDII format, please consider converting them to AIFF to make them compatible with the MediaBay. 2728 [OSX only] Cubase does not show installed Rewire devices on Mac PPC computers. Install the last Rewire Libary. This should be be installed with last versions of Rewire devices like actual Reason version. 2902 Channel Settings window which is Always On Top prevents events/parts being correctly copied/pasted using key commands in Project window, and that it can happen that Channel Settings data is copied/pasted instead to an other Track/Channel. Close Channel Setting window before copy/paste events in Project window. 2915 [OSX only] Some Scrolling functions do not work properly if an Apple Mighty Mouse is used. This cannot be fixed inside the program. OSX is controlling the mouse commands. If you experience scrolling problems, a normal USB mouse should be used instead. 2960 On some VST Instruments (VST2 Standard, e.g. Native Instruments), the wrong preset name is displayed after a preset was changed. The sound actually changes correctly. Currently no solution available. Further investigation is in progress. 2974 Peak values of meters in plug-ins differ from Cubase meters. There is no solution at the moment.  3073 Offline Processing (e.g. Time stretch) may fail or crash if the processed files have extremely long filenames or names containing special characters. Check the files you import for non-standard naming before Offline Processing. 3111 Imported WMA Surround Files may crash the program on playback. Please check conversion of the WMA files first. 3138 Mixer (Extended view) Title Bar is outside the screen. (Mac dual monitor Setups only)   Put Mixer in un-extended state and move it to a lower position on the screen, then extend it again.  3173 OMF created in Cubase 4 cannot be loaded in Logic Pro 7.1 (Logic crashes) Check for Logic Pro update to address this.  3266 MIDI) Recording sometimes fails (abortion or freeze) when using MIDIMan (M-Audio) MIDISport 8x8 MIDI interface with the default Windows MIDI Driver. You need to use the DirectMusic MIDI ports, which are invisible by default. Please refer to the MIDI_Port_Filter_EN.pdf on the installation disk.  
						

							    Version History/Issues & Solutions Cubase 4.0.1 Page 3 of 4 Steinberg  Media Technologies GmbH 3567 Disk-Overload (leading to Audio Dropouts) with (many) musical/realtime-stretched events (or very many crossfades) and VST-activity above 50. Problem ceases after playback of problematic areas for about 2 to 3 times (until affected tracks are edited)  • Reduce VST-activity (i.e. use fewer plug-ins) Reduce number of automation tracks   • Reduce number of musical tracks    • Reduce usage of solo-setting for realtime-stretching  After edits play problematic zones for 3 iterations  Freeze selected track 3692 MediaBay might encounter problems if System hard drives are being scanned. For very large media archives, prefer using dedicated drives. 3710 Plug-in IK Multimedia Amplitube version 1 causes crash. Use version 2 of IK Multimedia Amplitube. 3724 Macros that contain a [Delete] command may fail or crash when they are executed on empty tracks. Avoid executing Delete-Macros on empty tracks. 3740 If MIDI track inside (closed) folder track is unfrozen, that MIDI track will still be frozen and nothing can be done to fix the state. Repeat un-freeze with the folder unfolded 3834 Some MP3 files may fail to play correctly in project context (Media Bay) Prefer working with uncompressed audio files (WAV, AIFF) 3868 Cannot delete font sets You can delete a font set by selecting it from the menu while holding down PC or Mac 3873 ASIO device cannot be initialized when application is first started In device setup, change driver to ASIO Full Duplex and then back to default ASIO Device  3896 Videos with H.264 codec may cause problems with the video thumbnails and consume much CPU performance. Prefer less compressed video codecs for professional use (e.g. DV format) 4167 [OSX only] MediaBay doesnt automatically recognize if files have been altered, moved, added or deleted in the finder.  Manually force a re-scan. 4307 After manually forcing refresh on a certain folder in the Browser, the MediaBay often indicates a wrong scanned state (folder remains grey). Restart the application if required. 4321 MediaBay: Sometimes files with customized attributes (attributes created by the user) cannot be found in Detail Search. The tagged files should have been selected and viewed at least once in the Tag Editor with all (attributes) mode. 4346 MediaBay: REX files cannot be previewed in project context. Unfortunately MediaBay dont allow playing REX files in context. 4353 Deleting a very large number of Group Channels at the same time may cause a crash. If you need to delete a very large number of Group Channels, preferably do this in portions of up to 10 Group Channels at a time. 4364 In very large sound libraries, sometimes not all files are found by the MediaBay on the first scan. Use the right-click (OSX: Cmd-click) option to Refresh the browse location. 4368 Using MP2 audio files may cause problems in the MediaBay.  Convert MP2 audio files if you rely on having them organized by the MediaBay. Will be fixed in future update. 4414 Transport is stuck after loading a project which has a start time other than 00:00:00:00 and MTC is sent. After loading the project, once click with the mouse into the timeline to position the play cursor manually. 4424 Files that are deleted in the MediaBay Viewer are not put into the Trash but actually erased immediately. Be careful when deleting files from the MediaBay Viewer.  4474 MediaBay: Files can not successfully tagged if the file is currently in use. This also affects files currently playing in preview (Scope).  When tagging files make sure they are neither currently used in the project nor previewed in the MediaBay Scope. 4527 “Browse Sounds” dialog: Cubase may freeze/crash, when user cancels the creation of instrument track while sequencer is in record mode. Dont use Browse Sounds in Record Mode. 4544 On single CPU PC, plug-ins with complex GUI can cause program hang or freeze after a while, especially when large amounts of automation is written. This happens only if the plug-in GUI is open. Close the plug-in GUI when its not needed.  After running Cubase / Cubase Studio 4.0.1 Patch, some HALionONE sounds do not work (occurs on PC only). Right click on HALionONE and do Locate Content. Browse to this location:  C:\Program Files\Steinberg\Cubase 4\VSTPlugins\Synth\HALionOneHSB Confirm folder selection.   TimeBandit time stretching and pitch shifting no longer available Use MPEX3 or Realtime mode instead  
						

							    Version History/Issues & Solutions Cubase 4.0.1 Page 4 of 4 Steinberg  Media Technologies GmbH   DirectX plug-in support no longer available Use VST versions of plug-ins instead   Real Audio import/export is no longer supported Use MP3 or WMA Pro instead. In addition, external encoding solutions for Real Audio are available.    Intel Mac only: virtual instruments Monologue, Embracer and Tonic, Apogee UV22/UV22HR plug-ins not available Currently no solution available. These plug-ins are incompatible with Mac Intel systems