Hi, I am using Cubase 12 and curious as to why s-gear opens like this. No other plugins I use open with this grey area around.. It is no biggie, a bit uglier, but just curious.

I used Cubase 12, Artist edition on MS Windows 11. Mine doesn't look like that.

I'm on mac m1 in Rosetta... Perhaps that's why?
Although I've noticed that other plugins do that as well.... Strange previous plugins didn't.

May be the grey area is the space needed to expand the view over 100%?

I understand that is a known issue in Cubase 12. Hopefully it will be addressed in the next Cubase update.

Yup, not just S-Gear, many others do this. Has been flagged by Steinberg as a known issue for the next update.

This has been sorted in the latest update 12.0.30 released today!

I had the same problem, I only just installed the program today. If you go up to the QC (Quick Controls) button top right corner of your DAW, turn it on and the quick controls appear, but your grey area disappears, turn QC off and the quick controls disappear but the grey area doesn't come back. I suspect its a bug in S-Gear (which incidentally I love !)
I haven't had it happen with any other software.

I have heaps of Plugins, using Cubase Elements 12 and no plugin does this

Linz53 wrote:

I had the same problem, I only just installed the program today. If you go up to the QC (Quick Controls) button top right corner of your DAW, turn it on and the quick controls appear, but your grey area disappears, turn QC off and the quick controls disappear but the grey area doesn't come back. I suspect its a bug in S-Gear (which incidentally I love !)
I haven't had it happen with any other software.

Which version of Cubase 12? And on mac or Windows?

Hi Mike,
Cubase Artist 12.0.20
Winows 10
I am really enjoying this plugin, its always been difficult trying to get a good guitar sound from a plugin, very rarely get excited, but this is doing it !

Linz53 wrote:

Hi Mike,
Cubase Artist 12.0.20
Winows 10
I am really enjoying this plugin, its always been difficult trying to get a good guitar sound from a plugin, very rarely get excited, but this is doing it !

As suggested by Farag, 12.0.30 update should resolve

Farag wrote:

This has been sorted in the latest update 12.0.30 released today!

Sorry, mean't to say everything is fine now, Thanks