Fairly recently, I’ve encountered a new issue with the latest version of Cubase Pro (8.5.20). After editing plug-ins, I click on the red button on the upper left to close the window. Instead of closing, the window turns black, and controls are gone. Still visible are the uppermost VST controls found on all plug-ins (bypass, preset, etc.), including the red button for closing the window. These controls no longer operate and the red button no longer closes this window. It is possible to open a new plug-in window for the same device, but the old window remains open and is still black and still cannot be closed. This seems to happen mostly if “Always on top” is selected for the plug-in window and some editing has already been done. This happens for any plug-in, whether it be third party or a Cubase-only plug-in, an effects plug-in or a VSTi. As such, I sometimes wind up with several of these black windows open, which I try to at least move off-screen. Closing the project doesn’t even close the windows! The only action that closes them is to quit Cubase. Re-start Cubase and load in same project and the black windows are gone, even if the project had been saved with them open.
Here are the steps:
- Open a plug-in window
- Right click in plug-in window to select “Always on top”
- Do some sort of edit action in the plug-in window (turn a knob or something)
- Attempt to close window by clicking on red button
- Window turns black (standard VST controls remain but are inaccessible, but controls specific to the plug-in are gone, replaced with black background.
- The disabled window can be moved around, but no other action can be taken. Only quitting Cubase removes the window(s).