Hi
Wonder if anyone had similar problems with this type of setup.
I bought a new Macbook Air October last year, and have had trouble with it since it was new. My studio setup is based on Apollo interfaces, I have 8p, 2 x 16 (silver) and a Twin mkII chained together. Macbook is set up to have 24 GB ram, and biggest HD.
Issue: ASIO-guard is maxing out causing audio dropouts and freezes audio output. I have tried two times to wipe the machine entirely, with no luck. Last time a week ago, and now running without any other plugins than UA. I had it running for 45 minutes, and switched the buffer size from 256 to 1024, because the ASIO-guard was almost maxing. I turned down, and one minute later, Cubase stops because ASIO-guard is maxing out. And this is a project with only 47 tracks with audio, no MIDI.
I have tried it with a RME Babyface Interface, and I don’t get any ASIO-guard max outs. ASIO-guard also acts complete different when I use the Babyface.
A friend of mine has a similar machine, and we tried to set it up exactly the same, and run my cubase-project on it, and the same thing happened to him. He has a Lynxs-inferface in his studio, and when we used that, it didn’t happen.
It happens randomly, with big variations in size of project and types of plugins. I have tried to find types of plugins that causes the ASIO-maxing, but have not be able to detect any specifics.
Does anyone has any similar experience?