Cubase crashing during audio playback.

Cubase
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Hello all,

Sorry that my first post here is a bit of a bummer but after some scouring the internet and didn’t know where else to turn!

So, I’m having a bit of an issue with Cubase. Much of the work I do in Cubase is midi with samples. Lots of orchestra and percussion stuff. I have a big beefy computer that handles all of this just fine; 2600K i7 processor, 16GB RAM, multiple solid state drives for fast streaming & the OS is Windows 7… but when I want to start using audio things go bad… but only in the specific way described below.

Let’s say I’m working in a session, decide I want to bring in a shaker loop, I drag it in from the media bay and start chopping it up, manipulating the loop until I’m happy with how it fits into the piece yadda yadda. Everything’s okay, I can keep playing back the session until my heart’s content and no issues.

Now, let’s say I close down the session and reopen it… as soon as Cubase gets to the audio region during playback it will stutter briefly - and then crash.

This also only seems to happen when the audio regions have been chopped up and rearranged. A previous work around I had for this was to highlight the chopped up regions and go to Audio → Bounce Selection, to consolidate them…

…Which brings me to my second issue. Audio → Bounce Selection does not work for me anymore. I get an error message saying “There was an error during bounce! The function had to be cancelled!”

Strange thing is I am getting the problem even after a clean installation of Windows 7 due to switching over everything to SSDs…

Thoughts?
Thanks in advance guys :slight_smile:

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Hello,

Can you describe your audio settings, please? What sound card do you use? Driver?

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Of course.

I’m using an RME HDSPe AIO, I’m using the ASIO Hammerfall DSP driver provided by RME, and a buffer size of 512. I’m also in 48 kHz at 32 Bit float point.

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This sound card, and driver is perfect.

What about the file format? Is this WAV? What about sample rate/bit rate? And what about settings of your Project Setup?

Sorry, no more idea, now.

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Could you try some audio from an external HD rather than SSDs.

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Sorry for the delayed reply… went on a weekend trip!

The audio I import is wav. Originally at 41kHz - 16 bit, into the project which is at 48kHz, 32 bit… I don’t think that’s the problem though, as the crash still happens when I import the audio into a project of the same sample/bit rate. And yep, even if the audio is streaming from a separate HDD I get the crash… :frowning: very weird.

Any idea why I can’t do Audio > Bounce Selection, though? It’s weird that this function always give me an error…

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If you go to Project Setup, what kind of files do you use in the background? Is that wave also?

If it’s FLAC, try to change it to wave on a new project and see if it happens again.