Audio Dropouts in 10.5.20

Cubase
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I am running an i7 9700k with 64 GB of Crucial RAM so I am really frustrated to be getting audio dropouts running just 4 VSTis - D16 Audio Goup’s Nepheton, Phosyon, Lush 101 and Rob Papen Blue. Is this a current phenomenon? My audio interface is an M+Audio M-Track Eight

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Any suggestions? Apart from changing the ASIO buffer samples to the highest available and introducing horrible latency

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Lush 101 is notoriously know for high cpu spikes. turn off and on your plugs and follow the cpu meter to see if any of the instruments/plugins alter you cpu use in a big way.
and of course that is assuming that your cpu is stable low in an empty project

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Thanks Glenn. Do you know what causes the spikes in Lush 101?

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it used to be very cpu hungry. I suspect it still is