Minimizing whilst tweaking settings

Disease8

Disease8

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This is an odd problems and I do not believe I ever had it before windows 7.
Sometimes when I am playing some music I am working on and tweaking the knobs on a VST instrument suddenly the whole of cubase sets back from being full maximized for about two seconds stopping my mouse having control over the knob, it then comes back to the forefront of the windows open.

I have no idea and its very annoying indeed when trying to slowly automate the crossover or settings on a synth...etc.

I thought this must be quite common, I tried other versions of cubase and seems to be the same even in older versions that used to work fine.
Any experience please help..
Dom.
 
ARGH!

Third attempt at replying! lol

I mean maximize like when you click the button in top corner of a window and it fills the screen..
 
yes its very strange but as I have the same problems on multiple windows 7 machines and multiple cubase versions it makes me think its more about the OS.
 
Its strange I would have though more people would have experienced this as I say its happened on multiple Win 7 machines with multiple Cubase versions, its not only when i am tweaking VST's but when I am tweaking anything, like dragging the transport bars across to the end of a part, it will just spaz out and slightly minimize making me loose the contact with the transport bar!
 
Here is a fix:
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:55 am Post subject:
Here's a fix I came to.

1. Run Registry Editor (regedit.exe),
2. go to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\' key,
3. create a new String value and name it HungAppTimeOut.
This is the time period in milliseconds, after which Windows treats a non-responding application as hung one.
Think, how long are you going to hold your mouse button continuously at max?
4. double click this new value and type in that number (e.g., for 5 minutes it should be 300000),
5. create the same value in 'HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop\' key.
6. now restart your PC and you are done.

The downsides of this method are:
1. You will no longer see the typical dialog if some application actually hangs (at least, for the period you've chosen). You now have to use Task Manager to remove the hung app from memory.
2. Hibernation (and going to sleep mode, perhaps) will take longer (up to 2 minutes or so - depends on particular applications running, I guess). Shutting down and restarting not affected, though.

To revert to the usual flow of things, simply delete those two values and restart.
 
That's weird. I have never experienced that. What is the one consistent thing on all machines? Like a particular mouse, or graphics card? Hell, I don't know man.

It definitely sounds like something is interfering with your video connection.
 
jimmys69 said:
That's weird. I have never experienced that. What is the one consistent thing on all machines? Like a particular mouse, or graphics card? Hell, I don't know man.

It definitely sounds like something is interfering with your video connection.
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only consistent thing is the operating system Win 7!
I might try to disable aero as it seems its to do with the graphics in the OS..
See the post I found on the cubase forums above...
What OS do you have?
I am surprised more people are not experiencing this!
 
jimmys69 said:
W7 as well. But my computer is quite streamlined for audio.
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Right what do you mean by this? Usually people have just changed some minor settings and claim its streamlined. But I think turning off Aero will hopefully change this!
Do you have a PC built for DAW work from a specialist company?
Its strange that this would happen surely cubase would sort it out its such a popular platform..
 
Typically, people do as minimal adjustments as possible. Many do not have a budget, nor the desire to have two different computers, that are set up to do their own thing. I once thought I could get away with having a powerful computer that could do both. Not possible, if you want real performance.

I built my computer myself, with some educated advice. You don't need to be a guru to know that most people do not want to disable the things that make a computer cool. Especially when it involves limiting your really cool, new W7 PC, that you just spent a bunch of money on. The internet is faster than my other computer, maybe I can just watch p.o.R.N on the same one, and it will be ok?...

It never works completely well that way. When A PC is setup to run all of the services it is capable of, then it will be limited to not doing any of them well.

Optimize for computer for recording, if' you wish to record. If you wish to do multiple tasks on the same computer, then you are limiting both your computers ability, as well as the your own integrity of asking why things do not work.

I'm kinda in a bad mood tonight. Even though I am right, I'm gonna go smoke something.....
 
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