Freezing external instrument?

Cubase
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I was wondering what I was doing wrong. I have an instrument track with midi-data that gets send to my Waldorf Pulse 2 and the output of the Pulse 2 is send back to my UR44. I want to freeze that track and Cubase tells me that this has to been done in real time. Then I get an error message that says CPU overload, which I find hard to grasp considering the CPU power that I have at my disposal. I have done freezing of external synths but then I was using a M-audio Firewire device without any problems.

Is it the USB audio interface that is slower compared to the previous Firewire device that I had or am I missing some buffer settings here?

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Any one? I can’t be the only one.

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Is this a whole new computer for you? Perhaps that’s to blame, if it is.

It’s for reasons like this that I will never use a USB audio interface. All I’ve ever heard is problem after problem with them. That bus on the motherboard is often built cheaply, crowded, and unreliable. FireWire forevs! :wink:

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My main computer is not new it is still the same, I built it myself. Nothing but quality, top of the range, Asus components. I still have my Firewire device and I will start using it again.

Steinbergs UR44 audio interface is new though, giving my the opportunity to use my other two computers without Firewire Connection, as a possible DAW.

Thanks for your answer. I bought some new audio cables. I’ll just rewire the two audiointerface together.

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No worries. There ya go! Hook up that USB interface to one of your other rigs and run another DAW—or VST System Link those bad boys! :smiley:

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BTW: I didn’t mean to sound like I was bashing your pc. I think the whole USB spec itself is too unreliable to use in such a mission-critical job—no matter the quality of the parts.

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Strange. I have the UR44 and several external instruments hooked up via MIDI and the inputs 3 to 6 on the interface. For each external device I made a (very simple) seperate MIDI-device. Real-time freeze or export show the same load as standard playback. No problems. I have no explanation.

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I have built a new computer, switched to windows 8.1 and upgraded to Cubase Pro 8. Yesterday I tried to freeze my hardware synth again, lo and behold it worked perfectly on my UR44. At least one of the above parameters must have worked.