Cubase freezing very often during VariAudio editing

Cubase freezing very often during VariAudio editing, and doesn’t produce any crash logs because it doesn’t crash but just becomes unresponsive with beachball spinning.
OS: MacOS Sonoma. M1 Max CPU. 32GB Ram.

Hi,

Do you edit some non-speech data (like breath) by any chance?

don’t think so, not intentionally at least.
but sometimes “S’s” accidently get edited , but that becomes very noticeable right away, even if its one cent pitched up or down, so I undo it ASAP when that happens