Cant do anything else anymore while I bounce track in Cubase

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Hi, I am running Cubase 9.5 on a Mac Pro, Late 2013, 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5, 32 GB Memory

Since I moved up to Cubase 9 and High Sierra (did this simultaneously) I can not do anything anymore during a Cubase bounce. It feels like being back in 2003. The Computer kind of freezes for 10 seconds, then it lets me open up a folder or sth like that before it freezes again. When the bounce is over,
everything is back to normal. What also doesn’t work at all is to listen to a mp3 or wav track in Finder while Cubase bounces a track. For the last 10 years
that has never been an issue. Now it awfully distorts the signal I want to listen to. Again, after the bounce is over, all back to normal. I was wondering if it has to do with RAM, but I tried it and quit all other programs and then only bounced a small track in cubase, still the same story.

Anyone has the same issue? Thanks!

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It all depends on what you are bouncing? Using external instruments or many cpu intensive plugins? Your Mac is 5 years old! So not the most current to say the least? Anyway, some more information on ‘what’ you’re trying to bounce would help? Even the latest models with 10+ cores can have real time audio processing issues? Could be configuration, could be a driver, could be anything.