7.5.3 VE Pro grinds to a halt

Cubase
#1

So CLOSE!! agh the 7.5.3 was glorious up until I discovered this bug. I could live without retrospective record (which is confirmed broken) and the best part of the update for me was that it took my load times (about a minute) for each project and made it around 20 seconds. Freakin incredible!!

So I was working on a cue and after about an hour or so, all of a sudden my midi that I was recording got more and more latency. The playback of previously recorded midi played back fine, but all of a sudden the midi that I was trying to record had like a 5-10 second latency. It was insane. A simple quit and restart of Cubase solved the issue, until about an hour in. Then it would happen again.

I reverted back to 7.5.2 and I can work for 12+ hours at a time with no issue.

I also updated my VEPro at the same time as 7.5.3 (it’s version 5.3.133333 or something like that…) So i’m not sure what the culprit is… I didn’t want to risk messing up things by switching versions around.

Anyone else get this? If there’s a VE Pro version that works well with 7.5.3 (a previous version) then I’ll definitely make the switch… But for now, i’ll stick with 7.5.2 and long load times…

Thanks!

MH

#2

Something is definitely up with 7.5.3.

Check this thread-

http://www.steinberg.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=181&t=64163

It seems that there may be a ram problem. When I use kontakt and loop, my performance meter slowly creeps up and starts To crackle and pop during the loop. Be sure to submit a ticket on it.

#3

Yea I read that post… I’m on a Mac Pro - 8 core… that post seems to mainly be for Windows… but i’m sure something IS wrong.

When I finish this project I’ll tinker around with different versions of VE Pro. and see if I can find a working pair with 7.5.3.

I’m not getting performance issues like your thread mentions… no clicks or pops, and my CPU meter is at it’s normal area (15-20%) which is awesome in that I have about 800+ midi tracks coming from VEPro.

With all updates to any program, it’s always the same… Some things are fixed, while others get broken… I just hope they can solve this and give us a 7.5.4 that is as solid (for me) as 7.5.2.

I also can’t wait for a 7.5.4 since I saw that in 7.5.3 my projects would load in like 20 seconds… when with 7.5.2 it takes around a minute or so…

~MH

#4

Confirmed with 7.5.3. after using cubase for a little while the latency is like 5 seconds! This is happening for instruments not in VE pro also.

#5

Look, I’m the last person who can be accused of being a Steinberg fanboy, actually I’m often the target of their rage.

But honestly, I’m using 7.5.30 with VEP 5 (one master, two slaves) with absolutely no issues and nothing is different from 7.5.20. I use Win 8.1 Pro.

#6

I have this problem with just a Kontakt 5 instrument loaded in the rack, so it’s not isolated to VEP. only after they update to 7.5.3. It took a while thought before the symptom started I had cubase open for at least a couple of hours, then it started. Just had to restart cubase for it to go away, but there is definitely something going on under the hood with 7.5.3 that is a little odd. I’m on a mac though 10.8.5 so it may just be a mac issue.