How to solve connection issues

[crohde]

Hi there,

If you are having problems connecting to your computer please read this troubleshooting article:
https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/kn ... oting.html

[nbadesign]

Hi,

I am using Cubase AI6 with my Motif ES6 and Rack XS over FW16. Since I have also iPad2 and Yamaha applications, I saw very interesting possibilities with Cubase iC Pro remote control.
I have bought it from AppStore and set up as it is said in manual. I have installed SKI remote (latest version) enable it as a device in Cubase AI and set both PC (Win7 32bit) and iPad to the same wireless network.
iC Pro recognizes both Cubase and my computer (I could see under connection Cubase AI @ MYLAPTOPMSI) but connecting last about one minute and stops.
I have read all instructions for Windows and check everything:
1. Bonjour service is running
2. Cubase AI is enabled in Windows Firewall.
3. All other network adapters (LAN, virtual WiFi) are disabled except Wifi.

I have even tried to set ad-hoc network between PC and iPad. Network works fine, but iC Pro still not. Then I have read that maybe on some Win PC’s problem could be if WLAN security is other than WEP. Mine was WAP-Personal and I have changed to WEP. Still nothing, situation is completely the same.
Does anyone have similar problems?
P.S. Provided link for troubleshooting article don't work!

Alex

[ctothel]

I have the excact same problem...spent hours on this and still no luck...

[mr.roos]

Read my post under the Cubase iC Pro official tutorial. You might be running into what I am running into.

Regarding the news that you allowed Cubase through your Win7 Firewall, in reading about Wi-Fi connection, it becomes clear that you can disengage the first Firewall in Win7 (there are two Firewalls) without any ill consequence. This would automatically allow your Home Network access to Cubase. You can leave the second Firewall up - the one that deals with the internet - but even that one is reported by some to not be necessary. Eh, I leave my second one up anyway.

If you read my post, you will learn that I am running into having to run the Home Network Diagnostic tool in order to establish connection from my Home Network to Cubase via the Ski software. Win7 does not want to easily move between the two different networks I have setup. Try what I suggest, do what you are doing and then run the Network diagnostic tool.

[ONSatan]

Hilfe!
I have bought the IC Pro and have severe problems to connect to my Windows 8 PC.

My set up:
Computer
- OS Windows 8 64-bit
- Motherboard ASUS PT 6 SE
- CPU I7 920
- Latest Cubase Remote SKI
-Realtek 8111C PCIe Gigabit LAN (latest Windows 8 drivers)

Tablet
- iPad 3 with iOS 6 (I have not done the last update)

I have tried the following:
- Secured that Bonjour is working. I have tested to manually restart the service. Uninstall iTunes and ONLY install Bonjour
- One IP for the computer (i.e. no WIFI, just an Ethernet cable connected to my WIFI router). NOTE: I do not use an ad hoc connection, I connect over a router.
- Open the Windows firewall for Cubase
- Disabled Bluetooth on my iPad
- Disabled the firewall in my router
- Changed the router to WEP from WPA (I did not like this however…).
- Tried to connect the iPad to another router on my network (hidden SSID, locked MAC-address and WEP).

Notes (strange things found when trouble shooting for 24+ hours…) - I got the connection working flawlessly ONCE after the iTunes thread was killed using task manager (this worked one time only…). This worked one time only??! Now I do not even have iTunes installed any longer (only the “Bonjour Print Services for Windows v2.0.2” linked by Steinberg). NOTE: The version installed by iTunes is 3 something…
- I normally “see” the iPad in Cubase but I normally do not see Cubase in my iPad (IF I see it, I can connect).
- I did sometimes get the connection to work (but unstable) when fiddling with WPA/WEP.
- I sometimes get the connection to work if I restart my router (starting like this will however hang Cubase after a few minutes work…). NOTE: The router has no firewall enabled. Both the PC and the iPad has full internet working.
- This PC is also a “Hackintosh” running OS X Lion. When booting into OS X the connection is working flawlessly (but I do not like to run Cubase in Lion as the performance seems to be somewhat lower and I have some VST that are Windows only).

Please help! I have spent too much time and effort on this!

My guess: Apple has some undocumented “features” in the Windows version that you are not aware of…

[ONSatan]

Hilfe!
I have bought the IC Pro and have severe problems to connect to my Windows 8 PC.

My set up:
Computer
- OS Windows 8 64-bit
- Motherboard ASUS PT 6 SE
- CPU I7 920
- Latest Cubase Remote SKI
-Realtek 8111C PCIe Gigabit LAN (latest Windows 8 drivers)

Tablet
- iPad 3 with iOS 6 (I have not done the last update)

I have tried the following:
- Secured that Bonjour is working. I have tested to manually restart the service. Uninstall iTunes and ONLY install Bonjour
- One IP for the computer (i.e. no WIFI, just an Ethernet cable connected to my WIFI router). NOTE: I do not use an ad hoc connection, I connect over a router.
- Open the Windows firewall for Cubase
- Disabled Bluetooth on my iPad
- Disabled the firewall in my router
- Changed the router to WEP from WPA (I did not like this however…).
- Tried to connect the iPad to another router on my network (hidden SSID, locked MAC-address and WEP).

Notes (strange things found when trouble shooting for 24+ hours…) - I got the connection working flawlessly ONCE after the iTunes thread was killed using task manager (this worked one time only…). This worked one time only??! Now I do not even have iTunes installed any longer (only the “Bonjour Print Services for Windows v2.0.2” linked by Steinberg). NOTE: The version installed by iTunes is 3 something…
- I normally “see” the iPad in Cubase but I normally do not see Cubase in my iPad (IF I see it, I can connect).
- I did sometimes get the connection to work (but unstable) when fiddling with WPA/WEP.
- I sometimes get the connection to work if I restart my router (starting like this will however hang Cubase after a few minutes work…). NOTE: The router has no firewall enabled. Both the PC and the iPad has full internet working.
- This PC is also a “Hackintosh” running OS X Lion. When booting into OS X the connection is working flawlessly (but I do not like to run Cubase in Lion as the performance seems to be somewhat lower and I have some VST that are Windows only).

Please help! I have spent too much time and effort on this!

My guess: Apple has some undocumented “features” in the Windows version that you are not aware of…

Almost a week since I made this post and still no reply or solution from Steinberg.
Do I really have to cancel the purchase in iTunes?

EDIT: Found the following when going through my error logs.
I guess this is the reason for our problems but why and how to solve?
Client application bug: DNSServiceResolve(Cubase\032@\032MIMAN._smtrot._tcp.local.) active for over two minutes. This places considerable burden on the network.

[Armand Rochette]

Hi,


ONSatan, all our apologies for having skipped your message so far.
Next time you'll have to report a problem make sure to create a topic for your own issue on purpose.
It's easier for us to track the pending problems and you allow it a top visibility.

Anyway, thank your for reporting that log.
It's a new valuable information for us indeed.
I've googled that error shortly and based on the recent reports we've got it seems that sometimes the problem's more related to the routers' configuration.
One user got it recently working once he updated his router to the latest firmware. Did you?
You should also check this site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4199

Moreover, since there are a few networking issues reported that we aren't able to reproduce on our PCs here, we will implement a manual connection dialog box in an ongoing update which will allow you to connect to Cubase by only writing your DAW's ip address. Should likely resole Bonjour's lack of reliability on some machines.


Cheers,

[ONSatan]

Dear Armand,
Thanks for your reply.

I did check the provided link. Did fulfill all recommendations (had previously changed back to WPA from WEP as WEP did not change anything in a positive way for me).

I have not changed/updated the firmware in my router and it could very much be the thing that could “solve” this problem. Reason being, the router is provided by my network supplier and I do not have the possibility to update firmware on my own. A thing worth to note here is that I am randomly able to connect during the reboot of my router (i.e. it looks like the combination of my router, IC Pro, Windows 8 (64-bit) and Cubase is “guilty”).

And, note that the same router works (with the same actual PC) when I boot into OS X Lion and use the same iPad with same IC Pro to connect to the same version of Cubase 7, same version of SKI etc.

I have also some other strange information to give you about things I found when trouble shooting:

-There is in Google play a competitive product called “To….daw”. This is also using “bonjour” on the PC. This works perfectly and is very snappy when connecting from my Android phone. This is on the same Windows 8 installation that refuses to let IC Pro to connect to Cubase 7 (this is how I have “solved” the situation for now). One difference might be that the program installed on the PC for To….daw seems to be 32-bit (SKI for Windows 8 64 bit is 64 bit I guess?).

- I will almost always in Cubase see the free version of IC but almost never the IC Pro. Even though I see the free version, it will normally not connect if I do not randomly start/stop iTunes, start/stop bonjour, reboot router, enable/disable Ethernet, etc (this can take hours so it is not an option). In fact, I will normally not see the computer in any of the free or Pro version but can frequently see the free version in Cubase...

Is there a difference how the free version and the Pro version communicate with the SKI?
What could cause the SKI/Cubase to see the free version but the free version not to see the computer?

Let me know if you would like to get any other logs or things like that.

Cheers

[upnorthsound]

I had problems at first but after following the adhoc ipv4 tutorial it gained the IP automatically.

Can't you just create the ad-hoc network for the sake of using IC?

[Oliver]

Dear all,

as announced yesterday, Cubase iC Pro 1.0.4 is now available at the iTunes App Store:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cubase-ic-pro/id573140262?mt=8

Besides fixing minor user reported problems, this update adds the option to enter the IP address of a computer manually to support all users having connection problems with Cubase iC Pro.

Furthermore we've added a Knowledge Base article that describes how to determine the correct IP address of your computer (to be entered in the IP address field in iC Pro):
https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/knowledgebase_new/show_details/kb_show/cubase-ic-pro-troubleshooting/kb_back/2025.html

Please give this update a try and let us know if it helps to solve the issue.


Thanks
& greetings from Hamburg