Thank you for all of your help. I’m going to make sure all of my drivers are updated. And also, I noticed Nvidia’s tray is running and I think I read somewhere to not have that running.
The only thing I’ve added recently is a 4K laser projector for scoring, and while it is currently off and doesn’t have a driver, that’s the only major change I could think of.
I use this all the time and did not experience this in 10 or 11 but whatever has occurred is retroactively affecting all versions.
It was the machine itself as you mentioned. It took a while to find a program to do tap bpm but I found one called DJ BPM.
The BPM was reporting off, the same as Cubase Beat Calculator.
I turned off some Startup apps and now the problem is gone.
I don’t have time at the moment, but I will try and test each service and find the one it was.
Also, I installed a new Blu-ray rewritable drive the other day and it came with a bunch of CyberLink software (remember? From the 90s?) and it was in my startup list. I bet it was that because that is the only major change other than switching to Cubase 12.
I did not disable any NT services, just items in the startup list.
Here are some of the possible culprits:
-Maxon tray (Adobe Premiere plugins)
-NIHardwareAccessibilityHelper (Native Instruments)
-NTKDaemon (Native Instruments)
-Nahimic VR (I believe some MSI program for headphones that was installed with mobo)
-Power2Go Desktop Burning Gadget (Cyberlink - there were other Cyberlink items I turned off)
-RCMServiceStart.bat (I believe Roland Cloud Manager startup script)
-Roland Cloud Manager.exe
-iTunes Helper
-Update (GitHub - no idea why this is here, I don’t have a GitHub page)
-App Manager (MSI motherboard app)
-Adobe GC Invoker Utility (for Adobe Premiere)
-Adobe Updater Startup Utility (for Adobe Premiere)
Thank you Steve for your troubleshooting efforts. I wouldn’t have thought of trying a bpm calc on Windows. Excellent troubleshooting. I really appreciate it. Hopefully if it happens to someone else they’ll find this info.