Hi
I have a problem that is not dissimilar to the classic ‘Cubase pauses playback briefly when loading plugins’, but instead of pausing, playback stops completely and needs to be manually restarted after loading or unloading one of a select group of plugins. This group includes several stock plugins, such as Compressor, Gate and Limiter. It also happens with some (not all) third-party plugins. Does anybody have a solution to this slightly aggravating first-world problem?
Thanks in advance!
Are you actively inserting new plugins while your project is playing, and playback sometimes stops when you do this?
Yes, if I insert a plugin while the project is playing, playback simply stops (and the transport controls correctly show ‘stopped’ - this isn’t a freeze). I should add that I’m on Win 10, i7, 32GB RAM. And that this does not happen with every plugin. And also, that it never happened, as far as I can recall, in earlier versions of Cubase (I’ve been a user since Cubase VST).
I know this is an old topic, but I recently came across the same issue using Cubase 12 Pro on Mac. I couldn’t find an answer anywhere else, but I did find it only happened on one project.
I eventually discovered that if I created a backup of the problem project, only keeping audio actually used in the song, the issue when activating the plugins went away.
Not sure whether just creating the copy of the project was the solution, or whether the unused audio was causing the problem, but thought I’d share my experience here in case it helps anyone else.