I have seen a post here from almost 10 years ago, describing a very familiar issue:
I am not sure if this is the same glitch, however.
What’s noticeable though is that since Cubase V12 I have increasingly experienced issues with the playback of more than 5 or more audio tracks simultaneously.
The audio files are loaded from a SMB share on my NAS - could that have anything to do with that?
I have increased the audio buffer to 768 - but it changes nothing.
My question is: shouldn’t Cubase be optimized enough for this kind of scenario?
And has anyone experienced similar issues?
Here is a quick screencap of how my project looks like:
Currently, there are 16 track playing simultaneously at some timeframes but I am going to add more sounds later on. I constantly have to go back and restart the playback until I hear everything properly. This gets annoying really fast.
My system is a Mac Studio Ultra with 128GB of RAM - running on Ventura.