I recently got a new computer and upgraded from 10AI to 15. I tried hooking up my Yamaha THR10x with the latest drivers to record as I had with the older version of Cubase for many years and have had several crippling issues.
Even when using the ASIO driver and not the Yamaha driver or amp, if the amp is on and connected via USB the audio in Cubase begins skipping heavily. This happens even in a blank project with the click track.
When switching to the Yamaha driver it continues
The THR10x is running at 44.1khz while the ASIO driver runs at 48khz. The pitch of any audio, including the click track, plays back at the lower sample rate and is slower and pitched down accordingly.
I found a solution for audio interruption due to USB error, and checked a few of the complex solutions listed, but that problem doesn’t entirely seem to describe what I’m experiencing. The Yamaha drivers are current and the Cubase is a fresh install from about a day ago so I’d imagine that’s the latest driver. What else should I be trying?
Well you simply need to match your sample rates….iof the THR only runs at 44.1k then you must set your projects and Cubase to run at 44.1
Even when using the ASIO driver and not the Yamaha driver or amp, if the amp is on and connected via USB the audio in Cubase begins skipping heavily. This happens even in a blank project with the click track.
What ASIO driver? What driver where you using in 10Ai when you weren’t using the Yamaha driver?
I can update each individual project’s sample rate, but is there a way to set the default to 44.1 instead of manually changing it every time I create a new project? Or is it just a matter of saving the template with that sample rate?
The current drivers are the Steinberg built-in ASIO driver (for audio running through the desktop’s speakers) or Yamaha Steinberg USB ASIO (through the THR). I don’t remember what the drivers were on the older system, but they were the default ASIO and the then-current Yamaha THR driver.
The Steinberg built in are a new thing and tbh just aren’t very good. In your old system to work with onboard audio you quite possibly used a third party driver of some kind….maybe ASIO4all. But as this is a new system there may be some tweaks to the o/s that need addressing to get best performance. Try one of those drivers in the first instance and see how it goes.
I used ASIO4All occasionally on my old system when I was having an issue with other drivers and it worked fine, but having tried it with Cubase on this system it’s extremely distorted but not skipping with the amp on. There’s a fair amount of white noise/clipping in the sound.