Mayor Cubase 5 issues [Unsolved]

[L.F.]

Just bought Cubase 5 and the damn thing is crashing left and right. And ofcourse, only in projects which use the Virus Ti through VC.
Where do I start..
1. Sometimes after loading a project my VC simply says: Ti not plugged in, or there seems to be a problem with yout Ti... at which time I eaither restart the Ti (software on/off), and when that doesn't work I unplug/replug it. This sometimes helps, but at other times only way to get it working is restarting cubase and unpluging the Ti. And this happens very often.

2. When it works, and the project is open, after 20 mins or so my VC simply shows a blank VST (the Ti is loaded and working, but when opening the VST GUI it's blank; nothing there except a gray surface where the Ti GUI should be). This makes it impossible to edit anything and, again, I have to restart cubase and reopen the project.

3. When closing Cubase 5, 90% of the projects using the Ti VC cause cubase to crash on shutdown. This wouldn't be such a big deal but it often does this even when only closing the current project.

I've tried everything I could think of; updated the drivers, the .net and c++ redist, tried closing all background tasks while working, evenu pdated the bios and placed the Ti as a solo device on a motherboard usb hub (the only device on that particular hub, not a real usb hub ofc..)... nothing seems to help. I even tried all the 3.x betas of the Ti; 3.0 worked flawlessly for me untill the upgrade. Reverting to 2.75 is not an option as most new projects use the features of 3.0. But honesly I don't see this being the real issue IMO..
I have used the Ti on the same machine for 2 years running cubase SX3 and have had only minor glitches now and then. The main reason I upgraded to C5 was to make my setup more stable and more compatible with the Ti...

Please... any advice you may have is very much appreciated. I can't get any work done like this, and I've got quite a few projects which have to be finished soon


PC:
WinXP SP3 + all the latest patches
Asus Commando
C2D e6850 (@3.5 GHz)
2x 1GB DDR2 @ 800MHz
2x seagate SATA disks (Raid 0)
E-mu 1212m PCI
Fortron 450W PSU

P.S. The PC works fine and is stable, no glitches, no crashes in any other department.

Thanks in advance.

[loudness]

Well, I dont know if I´m good to compare since I´m using a Mac Book Pro but also Cubase. Till this day I never had a problem with my VC, but to say, I´m using 2.7 and from what you can read inside this forum, OS3 can be an Issue.
I know this doesnt help much, but if I should guess... Its the VC OS3...

[annikk.exe]

Access Support may be able to help with this. OS3 is in beta at the moment though so it's not all guaranteed to work perfectly!


-Annikk

[Engel]

Originally Posted by L.F.

2. When it works, and the project is open, after 20 mins or so my VC simply shows a blank VST (the Ti is loaded and working, but when opening the VST GUI it's blank; nothing there except a gray surface where the Ti GUI should be). This makes it impossible to edit anything and, again, I have to restart cubase and reopen the project.

3. When closing Cubase 5, 90% of the projects using the Ti VC cause cubase to crash on shutdown. This wouldn't be such a big deal but it often does this even when only closing the current project.

PC:
WinXP SP3 + all the latest patches
Asus Commando
C2D e6850 (@3.5 GHz)
2x 1GB DDR2 @ 800MHz
2x seagate SATA disks (Raid 0)
E-mu 1212m PCI
Fortron 450W PSU

You are not alone, I have the same problems...

My PC:
Win XP or Win Vista + all patches
MB: Intel dg33fb
Proc: E6750 @3,36 GHz
2 x 2 GB DDR2 OCZ
M-audio Delta 10/10 LT
powered by 450W

[L.F.]

Originally Posted by Engel

You are not alone, I have the same problems...

Glad to hear I'm not the only one. Hopefully, this means Access is working on the problem.
I managed to get cubase working a bit more stable, but to be honest, I've tweaked so many setting in my OS that I'm not 100% what made it work better
However, I'm still getting the same crashes on shutdown, Ti GUI not showing, and it appears some of my older SX3 projects using the Ti are not compatible with cubase 5.
I've Also noticed one other alarming Ti Bug; when reopening a cubase project file my Ti filter envelope sometimes resets to zero. Same thing sometimes happens to the cutoff..
I've checked cubase automation and it's off. So it's not supposed to move..
I remember there being a Ti OS beta which had this problem, but AFAIK it was fixed...
I'm currently using the latest 3.01.09

[Engel]

Originally Posted by L.F.

Glad to hear I'm not the only one. Hopefully, this means Access is working on the problem.

Please, let me know if you'll find how to fix our problem.

[johnfk]

....And it sucks so much. The TI Sequencer mode has become useless for me as i have exactly the same problem

OS 3.0.1

Cubase 5 with 5.01 update.

Windows XP service Pack 3.
Intel duo 2 core cpu
ASUS P5B Deluxe MB
2x2 GB DDR2 RAM
2 x 10k rpm disks @ 150GB each.

Motu Traveler Interface
Novation Remote SL

Please let me know also if you find some solution to this bad situation.

[johnfk]

Hey theres a new OS out!!

3.0.1.12

Go get it! I'm really hoping it will sort out the pain the virus is doing to my studio and creativity these days !

http://access-music.de/downloads.php...virustidesktop

[johnfk]

Well.......


The installer caused a BLUE screen of death....."VIRUSUSB.SYS"

(This is a NON internet, and highly secured-from-crap DAW, so its concerning with an BSOD like that)

....


Reboot. Drivers installs fine, but the installer couldnt find the virus when updating to new OS, so i had to hold the exit key next to the screen on the TI while plugging the power in, to enter update mode.

Updating now, will be exciting to see what happens now.

[Engel]

New OS have not fix my problem.