Hey there, Iam experiencing audio dropouts in Cubase 14 Pro.
It happens when recording a vocal track and I hit loud, peak notes. It’s like a brick wall limiter. It gets the front of the note, drops out, and then still records the tail end of the note.
The gap between the head and tail of the note is just silence, and the wave on display in the editor just flattens.
I have disabled the plugins in the UAD Console, and turned the gain down to almost nothing at the interface. But the same thing keeps happening.
I am trying to troubleshoot the problem to determine if it is a Cubase issue or a UAD Apollo issue. And I am having no luck. I have adjusted the buffer size, and I have enabled/disabled ASIO Guard and multi-processing. But nothing is working.
Sounds like some gating is occurring in response to a signal rising above a certain threshold. Do you experience these disruptions in other contexts—such as when playing synths within projects—or only during playback of mix projects?
Thank you for responding. I have done that. All the way up to 1024, and the same dropout at the same note occurs. I have been using Cubase for 20 years, as well as Pro Tools even longer. I have never had this behavior happen before.
And it is a vocal note. I have recorded much louder things into my DAWs for over 25 years. Like guitars through a Marshall amp. I have never experienced this before.
I have disabled all plugins in UAD Console. Even deleted them from the channel. I have also turned the gain in console way down. And it is still happening. But you are correct. It is acting like a gate. I just can’t figure out where this gating is occurring?
A vocal with the input gain set high could be louder to the computer than a stack with low gain setting…can you confirm that when you turn down the gain on the interface the recording is actually well below clipping??
Have you tested this in a new empty project and it still does it?
Assuming it does next step is to try another DAW…..Reaper is a very light install so is my alt DAW test bed. If it does it there then it’s mic or interface, if not we can dig deeper into what’s happening in Cubase.
I just performed a test with Cubase 11 (which I still have installed on my system), and the dropout does not occur with Cubase 11. It recorded the same note just fine. The issue is clearly with Cubase 14 Pro, and not with the UAD Twin Interface or UAD Console software.
I have no clue what to do about it. I hope someone here can help me figure it out.
Ensure that no plug-ins, including channel strip processors, are inserted on the input channel in Cubase 14.
This is a good cue, suggesting the issue may indeed stem from Cubase 14. Compare the Studio Setup and Project Setup settings in both versions to identify any relevant differences.
If that doesn’t resolve the problem, data corruption may be present in the Cubase 14 files. To investigate, back up and delete the application data folder (Steinberg > Cubase 14_64), and let Cubase 14 rebuild it by relaunching it. If the issue persists, try reinstalling Cubase 14.
When using hardware with DSP functions, you generally have to double the buffer size in your audio interface to that in your DSP hardware’s settings.
The problem I have is that ‘suddenly’ my Project won’t play back without activating Constrain Delay Compensation. Even when I deactivate all plugins that CDC deactivates and try to play the project with CDC turned off, it still will not play. So far, all I can do is to leave CDC on and change to plugins that work with it on. When I went to bed last night, everything worked just fine.
I’ve wasted an entire morning on this instead of finishing my mix.