Hi ATC, thanks again for looking at this. I was actually typing up more troubleshooting when you responded.
Audio Performance from what I’ve seen is fine - no spikes or anything. This has happened on a project with one track and one instance of serum with a plugin on the track, so super minimal setup. I seems more like the audio signal over driving Cubase so much that it can’t handle it any more and it crashes.
All my software is legit and up to date (I barely set up this new computer and installed everything within the week prior to finally sitting down to use Cubase for the first time), I don’t used any cracked versions of anything.
The Auto Monitoring is set to Manual:
On a recent crash I used the “Delete all preferences” just to try resetting everything and still had the same issue.
For the sidechaining and routing - this is happening even if I have no sidechain setup at all. I don’t even have the sidechain channel enabled, so it’s really bizarre (if that is the cause, just my speculation right now) that it’s getting anything on that channel.
With VMR, you can enable or disable the individual modules within the plugin, and I’ve seen the same behavior with all of the options:
- Disabling/Deactivating the entire plugin - everything sounds okay, exports okay (though this usually leads to a crash deactivating and reactivating the plugin)
- Removing the compressor module from within the plugin’s channel strip
- Disabling and re-enabling the compressor / module with sidechain from the strip while leaving the plugin itself enabled, including leaving other modules enabled that don’t support sidechaining, like EQ’s (disable it, it works fine, enable it, problem is back)
Sorry, there isn’t meant to be sound - I am just using the Mac’s screenshot software and it either doesn’t record sound or I don’t know how to set it up to do so. I’ve been a Windows user my whole life - this is my first Mac so I’m learning a lot here haha.