Audio Performance meters are peaking like crazy at 0 load (Cubase 12)

[paulxoro]

Thanks a lot, Louis_R! The workaround with Audio Connections has solved the issue.

@Louis_R

keep in mind that you are only using an Intel i3

It is the very same i3 that worked flawlessly with Cubase 11. I would never set my buffer higher than 64 (for live recording) and 1024 (for production). Moreover, I would never need to enable the ASIO Guard. I would have thought that a newer Cubase version would always be faster, less power/CPU-consuming, etc.

@Louis_R

When you press Play you have the Output Latency + the ASIO Guard Latency

@A little guidance please on how asio guard works

Unlike the driver buffer, ASIO-Guard does not add latency

This is rocket science to me… I tried to read the thread 2 times, but got even more confused. The main takeaways - please correct if I missed the point - are that 1) I should keep ASIO Guard enabled all the time, 2) I should increase the buffer if dropouts or clicks reappear. The thing is that I can’t go above 1024 as this is the maximum.

@Louis_R

You have the Focusrite driver which is fine, but what are the other three for ? I bet if you click that arrow you have many more.

Just two actually: the Focusrite driver and the Generic ASIO driver. (I guess the generic driver was automatically installed by some of the music apps.)