On my Mac install, 7.5 grabbed all the old settings, preferences, folder locations etc., so installing it was a snap. BUT on some installs it is also grabbing previous preference files, noting old Registry entries etc., so my feeling is, just to be safe, if the old version has problems I'd fix those first (or remove the old version). Just some thoughts.Ĭorrect, 7.5 is a 'new' version, and goes into a different folder. It's a lot faster than fiddling for days trying to figure out the cause and getting nowhere. Finally, if you have a suitable system restore point, you might try going back in time and see if that helps, but I'd do the uninstall/reinstall first. But if it doesn't then the problem is more serious, and will need further attention. If that solves the problem, then you could consider 7.5. What you could try is completely uninstalling your current version (see the Steinberg Knowledge Base) and then reinstalling (although I'd be much more inclined to go 7.0.6).
What I wouldn't do just yet is install 7.5 on top of 7.0.2.
There are all kinds of things you can try like deleting blacklist files, preferences, eliminating all VSTi(s) then reintroducing them etc., but you still may not find the answer. That's abnormal behaviour and that is why there may not be any quick solution. I don't normally recommend reinstalls because often they are not not needed, but in your case it may be the best solution, especially time wise. Re: Cubase major malfunction - your brains, please! Hoping someone out there says "oh yeah, I had that once and I just pressed a tickbox and everything came back to normal". But of course this is so debilitating, I need to try something drastic soon. Thinking of just upgrading to 7.5 purely to get a completely fresh install, but I don't want to lose 7.0.2 as that's where naming in the mixer works for me (no intelligent shortening, something they "fixed" in 7.0.3) so not keen to try 7.0.6 and overwrite my beloved 7.0.2. If that all sounds hopelessly vague - sorry, but that's how it is! It happens using different starting templates. Sometimes moving the play head wakes it up, sometimes it needs a project restart to bring it back. Always playing instruments "live" works fine - only timeline playback is affected. It might happen for no reason mid playback, it might happen after editing.
Sometimes its some instruments, usually its everything. What happens is that when writing / editing, material on the timeline stops sounding. The only change I know of - and where I first noticed the problem - was installing nexus 2, but I suspect that's unrelated. All was normal until one day when it wasn't. So this is a trawl for ideas of what might be going wrong.
I've had a support ticket for 2 weeks, a post on the Steinberg forum and another on the Facebook group, and I've had no luck with any of them yet. OK, Cubase has gone down the crapper over the past couple of weeks for me.