About a month ago I began experiencing a bizarre issue in Cubase. If an audio track exists in Cubase (even an empty session, even if it’s not record-enabled), my disc cache meter spikes any time I move the locator forward/backward or anywhere on the transport timeline. This occurs when any audio driver is selected, even the Generic Low-Latency Audio Driver. Only when “no driver” is selected does the issue go away.
I should note that I’m not experiencing this with Ableton, which lives on the same PC. It seems Cubase-specific.
I’m a professional composer and my PC is a custom-build designed specifically for running Cubase (see specs below). The creator of the PC has even remoted in to check the drives and performance–the PC is not the issue.
I just got off the phone with Steinberg support and NO, this is NOT normal behavior.
They had me try several things, from clearing the preferences to updating my graphics card, to saving projects on separate internal SSDs, trying different audio interfaces/drivers, reinstalling Cubase 10, updating to 10.5…nothing helps. Steinberg has now submitted my issue to the development team because they are baffled.
Before I throw my DAW out the window, has anyone been able to resolve this issue?
Any help would be majorly appreciated…I’ve lost 2 weeks of work at this point and will have to stop using Cubase for good if the issue persists.
does it only happen when there is an actual audio event on a track? or even without audio events loaded on a track?
have you tried running cubase projects loaded from a different SSD?
I might even try re-installing cubase
If you watch the 5 second video I posted above, it will answer your question.
Here’s what I have tried so far:
-Saving projects on 5 different internal SSDs
-Turn off ASIO Guard
-Changing buffer settings
-Changing Disk Preload Time
-Clearing preferences / presets
-Uninstalling/reinstalling Cubase 10
-Upgrading to Cubase 10.5
-Downgrading to Cubase 9.5
-Updating graphics card
-Disconnecting internal SSDs
-Wiping entire OS, reinstalling Windows 10
-Trying two different audio interfaces (usb and firewire)
-Reinstalling interface drivers
-Not using ANY interface drivers, only Cubase’s Generic Low Latency driver
-Updating chipset drivers
-Updating BIOS
-Benchmarking entire system (performance optimization, High Performance mode, LatencyMon, etc.)
-Checking and updating all drivers in Device Manager
-Checking Reliability for unusual behavior
-Removing all PCIE cards