ASIO-guard overloading

Cubase
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I have bought the CLA Nx plug in from Waves in their Black Friday pre sale.

When I activate it, it causes the ASIO-guard to overload so I get audible drop outs and clicks.

My CPU shows about 60-70% usage so it doesn’t look like the amount of memory is the issue.

Would a computer with a faster processor help? I currently use a 256Mhz i7 powered MacBook Pro from 2015.

Apologies if this is an obvious issue but I’ve seen other posts where new computers are using a similar amount of ASIO-guard of the performance meter.

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This may well help solve your issue.

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Thanks for that. Do you know if this needs to run on a separate computer. Looks like the guy in the video was running the server on the same machine as cubase. When I tried that I still got overload on the ASIO-guard. Unfortunately I don’t have another computer to use as a server.

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I’ve solved it.

I went in to VST Plug-in Manager and selected the CLA Nx plug-in and disabled ASIO-guard. It now doesn’t overload the ASIO-guard and the real-time and peak seem to be taking up the slack.

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Cool, and no the program will run locally too.

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Hello there, i know how annoying this problem is, with Asioguard peaking , so i decided to dig deeper and get some answers. If you reading this i will solve some things for you.
I decided to uprage my PC , because i thought that my pc needs more some kind of resources. I dont want max parameters, i went MID class best.

  1. Because task manager shows very hi power usage on Cubase i installed 700w power supply instead old 500w and it helps ZERO.

  2. I changed motherboard, from chipset A320 to B550. And it helped, i think max 20% better.

  3. I installed max available CPU for this motherboard and it is Ryzen 9 5950X, old was Ryzen 5 3600x.

After installing motherboard and before Ryzen 9 i found post in Steinberg forum, that some Cubase user has very powerfull PC and having same problems, thats where i understood that i will not solve this.

Now after new build i get a bit less peaks, it feels system is more stable, CPU and RAM never goes to 90%, but problem still here. What interesting, that i didn’t get any Asioguard overload now, but sound still Popping and crackling, but much less. After some time i think :
This issue is with CUBASE 100% , not your PC. Most vulnerable is Instruments track. In one project i just Highlight ( clicked ) on instrument track and Asioguard went from 50% to 80%. If i click on any audio track it goes down to same 50%. In another project, that was on 95 % overload, i deleted third party VST3 from stereo out and got -25% on load. I’m sorry to say, but all VST3, that not belong to CUBASE ,most these free to download, must not be in use. I use 90% Cubase and then maybe other. I cant say nothing about expensive hi end VST3, i have none :). So its geniuos in simplicity. Use less and be stable. Cubase is pushing new versions no matter what and , i think, this problem will pop more and more. I really want to be wrong here.