Hello all, I am having some issues with audio dropout and crackling on my Cubase 11 projects. Even just playing the project to listen to, there is often audio dropout or crackling. And this will happen during recording too which prevents audio from being recorded. It is most apparent with larger projects where there’s 10+ tracks. Closing background apps helps but is no guarantee that the issue will resolve.
When I have Windows Task Manager running during these projects it shows the CPU usage from Cubase is around 40-50% while the RAM usage is around 1500mb (16Gb total RAM on this computer).
I am using an Audient ID44. The ASIO buffer size is set at 256 samples to get the latency around 10ms. This issue was a bit better when I used the highest possible buffer size of 2048 samples but the latency was 50ms which was very difficult to work with. Sample rate is 44.1Khz. Computer specs are in the link below. Any idea about what could be the weak link here and how I can resolve this issue?
Have you made windows tweaks? The main one is the power plan. Have you set it to the highest or are you using the steinberg power plan? Have you got asio guard enabled?
Also download latencyMon and run it to see if your pc has a bottle neck
Studio\Studio Setup, then click on Audio System on the top left of that window . Then go to the right side of that panel and look under advanced options\Processing precision.
That’s where the ASIO GUARDS is located
Im saying for tracking you should monitor using the Audient mixer app and NOT monitor THROUGH Cubase using the MONITOR button on ya tracks.
If you do that you can then up your buffer on the audio playback and you’ll be fine.
HOWEVER, it looks like you have some SYSTEMS issues there in Windows.
