Hi all,
Since I have been using Cubase (from LE4 to CBpro 8), when I open the programme after listening to some of the recording using the windows audio, I used to have a message which asked if I wanted to change the audio driver to Steinberg Asio (my CI1 interface).
Stupidly, I checked the “Don’t ask again” box so I now have to remember to change the drivers, as opposed to having the programme prompt me.
I know its a piffleing issue in the great scheme of things, but I cant find out how to change it back to show the original message and thus give me a nudge ( something that is necessary at my age)!!
I have searched the forum but couldn’t find what I wanted unless I trash the pref’s, but I am concerned that if I do that I will loose a lot of my personal settings, so does any one have an answer?
Thanks in advance.
Firstly, thanks GGC, for your suggestion. Unfortunately it didn’t work, so I am still looking to revert back to the “picking my audio device” screen as it was before I stupidly checked “do not ask again” !!!
Any one got any ideas? Maybe someone from Steinberg could offer me a solution?
There is some information about reactivating various Cubase “Please, don’t ask again” options in the Cubase Operation Manual. Try searching there using the words I quoted. Good luck and report back either way. Thanks.
This is perhaps #400 in my list of posts which can be boiled down into one sentence:
MAKE CUBASE MORE SELF-EVIDENT OR AT THE VERY LEAST, DOCUMENT IT BETTER!
Cubase does everything except deliver pizza, but this is the kind of detail that can drive one nuts.
Suggestion to SB: Several apps have a dedicated page for resetting all such dialogue boxes in one go. (Adobe comes to mind. I think Wavelab has it as well?)
On the off chance that someone from SB picks this up, here is what happens.
I record some music in my “mancave”, using my CI1 audio interface. If I want to have a listen to what I have done away from the “mancave”, and without having to move my audio interface, when I open the project it seems to automatically change the audio driver to the generic low latency audio driver. All good so far
When I then go back to the “mancave”, connect my CI1, and open the project Cubase used to ask me if I wanted to change to the Yamaha Steinberg USB ASIO to which I always clicked on yes.
Last week I checked the “don’t ask again” box, because I mistakenly thought that Cubase would automatically swap to the Yamaha Steinberg driver without me having to click anything…wrong!
All that happens now is that Cubase doesn’t ask me anything and I have to go through the process of changing the driver myself.
I know its not a biggie in the great scheme of things but I am at the age where, if I am not prompted, I wont remember
All I want to do is get back to how it was ( and has been since I started using CB LE4) but I can find no information on how to do this simple thing.
Any help will be greatly appreciated and as Suntower says, after having gone through all the CB manuals (and searching the forums) it would appear to be a failing in the CB programme.
That was the first place I looked and I have been all through the preferences section (every part of it) and, even though everything else seems to be covered, this issue is not as far as I can see!!!
Of course I may be wrong, and its one of those processes that is hidden behind a lot of other options, but I have not found anything to return this element of CB to how it was.
Hi Jim B… You say that there is no information regarding “please dont ask again” in the manual. Well, when I search the manual for “Please, don’t ask again” I get several hits. To be honest I did not read through them to see if they are related to this particular issue though. Generally, it looks like they are reset by going into various places in preferences.
A couple of suggestions for your consideration:
Maybe hitting one of the “Reset” buttons that are all over the place under “Device Setup” might do something?
Trash your preferences. Not really trashing them but copy them to the desktop then trash and restart Cubase to see if it works. If it does work then decide if it is worth having to reset a bunch of things. If not, then I would just restore them from the desktop.
Like you, I do wish that Steinberg would chime in here to assist.
Good luck. If this ever gets sorted out please post your findings. Thanks.
Sb’s GN has answered while you where posting probably. Anyway, if you don’t know how to fix this, as we did, it seems that you can take that warning “never ask me again” pretty serious. The program will certainly never ever ask it again (untill you delete the xml).
Just to clear this up, I was searching for “please dont ask again” as opposed to " please, don’t ask again" and apparently punctuation and grammar is the key
On my search terms I got nothing, and on the “correct” term I got the ones that you got!!
Another lesson learnt today then, about what I type in the search box for the manuals!!!
My god, i almost wrote a book in this thread about “Top secret” audio stuff:p
Had to stop and delete it before i went too far down the rabbit hole:p - a place all too familiar…
Anyway, yeah, knowing the “term” of some things helps (if there is one;)) - or good descriptive skills:p
Glad you got it sorted and we now know too (just in case)
Again, I am just glad you got this sorted and now we all know how to fix it… until we forget and can’t find it when we search in the future because we don’t remember the exact “term” to search. It will happen… guaranteed.
Also, I agree with Suntower about needing a properly documented and indexed operation manual.
Now for some more babble about the fix…
Glad the fix works but, it is lame. Period!
Having users delete a program file is not “professional” at all. Give me a break. Some users went through this same crap when in CB7 they had to move out all files with the word “video” in it from the Cubase components folder to get CB to stop hanging during startup. Users who did that then had problems upgrading to CB8. Mommalouie!
Sorry but, I am for Steinberg for these programming issues.