I’m (still) facing a weird issue which I’ve already encountered in Cubase 11 and earlier versions on my old mache (Into Core i7-4770S with 32GB using 2TB SATA HDD). Yet, after having built a new machine that issue still persists.
I’m working on an Intel Core i7-13700T with 64GB of main memory. The project is stored on a 2TB WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe SSD.
I’ve seen this in serveral projects. The one I’m currently working with is rather large(?), i.e., around 307 different tracks. Audio performance meters are are ~1-2%. But occassionally, at some points in the project the disc cache performance meter is stationary at 100%. In the screenshot this is at transport location 1131.2.1.0.
The weird thing about this happening is that at that point only 32 tracks are active (vocal choir and drums). In the part afront there are guitars + bass as well.
I’ve got serval such “bad” spots in the project all of which are at quieter places, meaning that there is less stuff going on.
Btw. at such places bouncing audio tracks, e.g., after quantizing often (not always) leads to issues that the target file cannot be saved. So this is quite disturbing. Especially when exporting audio tracks at such locations works fine.
Hi Gernot,
I guess I can’t help you but I want to let you know I have the same issue since more than a year. At the beginning still with Cubase 4.5 and mainly in projects with about 10 audio tracks. Then I searched for help without success. So I did the upgrade to Cubase 12 but the issue persists. Finally I upgraded my computer with a new motherboard, processor (12th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i5-12400) and swop my old hard disc to a fast SSD.
Result: the issue is still there.
Yesterday I put 16 audio tracks in another DAW-software without any issue or disturbances during the play.
That’s why I estimate the issue is linked with Cubase or another component which is inproper with Cubase.
This won’t help you but now you know you are not alone.
I hope you will get an answer in the forum which helps us …
kind regards, Henry
I agree that it might be some bug in Cubase. When I’m back from my vacation I’ll try to strip down the project to something “minimal” that allows reproduction of the issue. Maybe that allows me to file a bug.
Ahoi Gernot,
after some internet research and deeper investigation today I could fix the problem at my Cubase.
There was a hint the virus scanner (in my case Kaspersky) is checking in background the files. So I deactivated Kaspersky for some minutes and the issue was gone. No disc cache overload.
Then I tried to switch on the issue again and I activated Kaspersky again. But the did not appear again. Reading Kaspersky sides I found some blogs they announced the disc cache issue several times.
I hope this helps you as well.
please let me know …
Ahoi Henry,
well I can for sure say it is not related to any Anti-Virus software because I simply disabled all such stuff on my machine.
The problem with this is now that is totally kills my re-amping setup as at such project locations simply nothing works properly anymore. Fun fact… when I changed the length of the DI tracks to re-amp by one beat, the issue was gone… So that’s totally odd and seems like a bug to me.
If I find the time I gonna make a minimal project to reproduce the issue.
