Hello all.
I recently reinstalled my DAW since I wanted to have a “clean desk”.
After reinstall I noticed huge and nasty CPU spikes while playing a
project in Cubase. My interface is Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 and there’s
a firewire connection between DAW and interface. I’m aware of the FW issue
with Windows 7 where you must use legacy driver, what I’m using anyway.
It doesn’t matter. When playing a project, system freezes for a couple of seconds,
then it tries to continue playing and freezes again. When capturing performance
data, it shows huge spikes with CPU and disk IO. I copied the project to another
disk but it doesn’t matter either. When playing a song from Spotify or from Windows
Media Player, it works just fine. Windows logs doesn’t show anything strange and
Windows itself is working fine. So problem is probably within Cubase → ASIO → Focusrite
Saffire.
This didn’t happen before reinstalling. I’m using also IK multimedia software synths,
Superior Drummer 1.0 and Waves Renaissance Maxx native-package. My DAW is
Windows 7 64 bit and I’m using also 64bit version of Cubase 6. Does anybody know
what is causing this?
Br, Sampo