Groove Agent 5 taking forever to load in Cubase 13

Virtual instruments Groove Agent
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Groove Agent 5 taking 35 seconds to load in Cubase 13 in a very fast pc, what’s up?

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I found a workaround. Save a track preset, then loading the track preset is normal.

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Just noting that Groove Agent loads in a few seconds here without using a preset, so if there’s more data to share it would help fix things if there’s something wrong.

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Not sure what else I can provide. If i create an empty project in Cubase 13 (and Cubase 12) it takes 35-40 seconds for Groove Agent to load (Groove Agent Se is much quicker).

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So find out what’s different. It sounds like a problem local to your setup.

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Probably, but I haven’t been able to figure out why. Only happens with GA5

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Is there a default preset that opens upon launch?

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No, I even tried to create a default preset, no change.

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In that case I would try initializing the Groove Agent VST Plugin by moving the User Settings Folder out of %appdata%/Steinberg/ to see if that corrects the problem.

the filepath is
%AppData%\Steinberg\Groove Agent_64

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That helped, down to 9 seconds from 40!

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Hm… interesting, and nice to be rid of the prob, even though we didn’t actually learn anything.

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Spoke too soon, slow loading is back…

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I would look at all connections midi and otherwise. Maybe a component is waiting to connect, and times out after 40 seconds.