Cubase 14 audio dropout

Cubase
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I tried disabeling multiprocessing and somehow it worked. I have no idea how this could decrease performance in anyway but it seems that way at least. I have been doing some tests and I can now record with a buffer size of 192 without dropouts or stuttering, but I’m going to keep testing just to make sure it actually fixed the issue.

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Disabling ‘Multi Processing’ is mentioned as something to test in this Steinberg Cubase / Windows optimization guide. But it doesn’t explain why it could be causing issues. Anyway, you can take a look through the guide for some more ideas if your issue persists.
Please keep testing and come back and confirm whether this was the solution or not.

Tweaking Cubase/Nuendo

In the Studio ▸ Studio Setup ▸ VST Audio System ▸ Advanced Options, there are some settings you can experiment with.

  • ‘Processing precision’
    A processing precision of 64-bit float can increase CPU load and memory consumption.
  • ‘Activate Multi Processing’
    Usually, having this selected is the preferred setting. But if performance issues arise, it is worth deactivating the multiprocessing support for a test.
  • ‘Activate ASIO-Guard’
    As mentioned earlier, Cubase/Nuendo makes heavy use of real-time processing.
    The ASIO-Guard allows you to shift as much processing as possible from the ASIO real-time path to the ASIO-Guard processing path. This results in a more stable system.
    However, depending on the system, the project and the plug-ins used, it is worth a try deactivating it or selecting a different level.
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First of all I’m so glad you figured it out and I hope your testing continues to confirm that things are stable. Once I considered myself pretty tech savvy but so many things happen now that are total head scratchers and if I’m lucky enough to find a solution I mostly don’t understand the why. My beefy Dell Inspiron just wouldn’t handle the simplest real time audio. I was a power management module that was hogging core 0 on the machine. This great app Process Lasso allowed me to tell Cubase to not use core 0 and now things are fine. Took so long to get that solved.

What’s maddening is that it brings all the music-making to a screeching halt. You can get back to the fun stuff now!

Ken

K-Toons Music