Cubase 14 Pro: Performance Issues and Unreliable Behavior

Thank you so much. Glad that there are still people with common sense here. Glad you not the only one. Sometimes i fear that the number of Professionals shrinking by the minute in the Cubase world. Glad that this is just my own Experience and is probably false.

I can say for myself i never accept the status quo when i can see that others are able to make it right and honestly i as a customer who already invested a couple thousands of dollars into Steinberg has to do what has to be done there are no excuses. Most inportantly people or teams who cannot achieve the solution for years need to be exchanged. Its not a personal thing it is getting personal when the developers dont seem to care.

I hope that i as a user can make sure that i did and test everything to make sure its not my fault. For this day i can say i did Everything i can do. Thats why i have posted this final statement.

I tried for over a year to get the situation resolved sadly only with a hacky way. A software no matter what should run on a fresh default windows installation without any issues. Thats something Steinberg needs to understand. They need to buy a stock workstation, not a damn custom build. Exactly what every smartphone app developer does. Buying one stock smartphone of every provider to test the damn app.

I still have hopes that Steinberg is listen i decided for myself that Cubase 14pro was my last purchase under those circumstances. If the stuff gets resolved in 14 i have no fear to invest into 15.

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Damn .. You nailed it… I have deactived Thread 0 aka CPU 0 in Process Lasso for evertime it starts and Cubase has become seriously stable .. its a good addion to all the other tweaks..

BIG Thank you!

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Ah, you’re welcome! That’s fantastic to hear, and this should be further proof for Steinberg that they have a major, unaddressed problem that they need to take to their partners at Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Intel to get to the bottom of it collectively.

The flak I’ve gotten on here for trying everything I can to get their attention has really been something else. It’s hard not to become bitter. And yes, I agree with everything you said about what the bar should be, what the standard, expected performance on Windows 11 should be on a typical PC.

We’ve very clearly identified some real issues and we’ve done a ton of work for them for free, work that is not our job. I find this status quo flatly unacceptable: you said it.

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What makes you think that I am not?

If so you would already know that you don’t have a choice as Nvidia.

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There are pros and cons, which are different for everybody.
You say “No choice!”, I say “Choice!”.
We should leave it there.

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Anyways… it has nothing to do with Nvidia or AMD or what not.

Tell me why Cubase has a Rt Core usage of 30% while monitoring and playing on 8 tracks with BBC symphony orchestra and using Air Studios reverb on each individual instrument to get a maximum on realistic sound. ..while reaper with the exact same setup, same plugins for mastering(no Steinberg stuff) is only using 12%?

Why is Cubase going into peaks while moving my plain hand from top to bottom of the keyboard while reaper wants even more.? Why is also possible to do the exact same thing in Ableton LIVE 12 suite without any issue. Why does a Friend of Mine running logic on Mac with the exact same instruments and vsts and test does also not have a single isssue? Tell me…

It’s a faulty core development of Steinberg.

Tell me why Ben from VSL, I hope you ever heard about him… saying in Forums that he had major issues too.

It’s an undeniable Problem that Steinberg dosen’t even admitted.

why is there non of these issues in Dorico from Steinberg? Probably a different developer team..

Bottom line I tried my best to resolve the issues but still in some instrument setups there are still issues. So iam out of the Discussion

@Steinberg You lost a Cubase Customer. It was eye opening to read Ben’s comment back from 2020. Steinberg did nothing to resolve this issue for 5 straight years.

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Why “unfortunately”?

Because nvidea gfx cards seem to cause more problems for DAW s than AMD do.

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Thank you, @Norbury_Brook !

Would you (or anyone else, of course) know, is there a similar interaction with Intel chips?

Thank you!

I recently bought an Intel Arc A580 Challenger 8GB OC, I didn’t notice any problems, everything works

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Nvidea GPU, right?

Thanks!

I think the main thing with NVidea GFX cards for DAW use is to only install the Basic ‘Studio’ drivers , not the full package. This tends to help.

Also from what Ive read with the latest Intel CPU’s etc if you use process lassoo to stop cubase from using Core 0 then than can help a lot with making your system be stable regarding ASIO spikes etc.

I’m an AMD user so can’t comment from experience.

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Now you’re teasing us. Such an important information and you don’t provide a link? Come on, we have a right to know. Maybe we will want to migrate, too.

Hi Norbury,
On my system, Intel Ultra 9 285k with no tweaks and standard intel bios settings, Cubase is not using core 0 but 1 and 10 to the max. (???)

Sorry pls ask Ben yourself about the issues of Cubase and Nivdia drivers and his comment from 2020. I will not speak for him or quote him, or link the post I found because I have no agreement from him on that. So I can only suggest to try out the Nivida Studio drivers. It could have been a solution years ago. Unfortunately with all the new Tech and constant Background Recording of modern Nvidia GPUs it’s not working on my side. But maybe for someone else.

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I have a Threadripper and still issues. It has nothing to do with Intel or AMD. Maybe it has something to do with architecture. My Threadripper is from 2020.

Besides that it seems that Reapers Community build thousands of scripts which can be installed as plugins with the extension from the reaper site including a Cubase Theme which looks like Cubase 10 ish or looking and functioning like Logic. So my problems are mostly gone… also the reaVocal pitch tool or how it is called seem to have better results than VarioPitch…. I currently thinking about selling my Cubase license

Was it a private message to you? If Ben made a comment in a publicly accessible forum it implies permission to be linked to.
Go on, don’t be shy.

It is public, I will not share it without permission because it will change nothing on the underlaying issue and will only create wild discussions. Use your own capabilities on using chat GPT to find his statement is not hard. In 2025 everyone should be able to use the internet and AI to get all the informations you want. Do it.
I gave you a hint on checking if the studio drivers from Nvidia helping. If it helps okay, if it not helps bad. It’s at least a good help.
So please stop asking again for a link. Thanks

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To state the obvious: if you claim something based on other sources you’d better be able to deliver the sources unless you want to loose credibility.
'Do it yourself" is not an answer.
Just saying…

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