If C8 is performing great for you, please list your machine

Greetings All!

Quad core i7 Mac Mini with 16 GB RAM and SSD running OS X 10.10.1.
New full installation of C7.5, then C8 update with the Application Installer Tool for Yosemite.

Very stable, and definitely more efficient with Multi-processor support and Asio Guard 2 set to “Hi”.

Big thank you to SB for this performance boost.

running great, see below

Custom built (by me), specs in signature.

C8 runs great on my system. Only one small graphic’s niggle and that has to do with the menu bar, that’s it.

Thanks to all who have replied.

One thought. I suspect, given the Aero Theme requirement, that the video card (or IGP) and drivers will explain much of the difference in experience, at least on Windows.

So if your graphics card is not in your sig, can you please provide that? Got a strong hunch there will be some commonality in the video hardware department for systems that do or don’t work well. Keep in mind that I expect very few Win users had Aero activated before it being required for C8

Running fine here, except some older templates (and projects) from 7.5 that are not running so well. After rebuilding my biggest template from zero everything changed for better. This specific template now runs much better than before (Cubase 6.5/7/7.5).


Specs in signature (installed only on first system).
Video card: Nvidia GeForce GT 650M.
Driver version: 347.09 (23/12/2014)

P.S. I did a clean installation of Cubase 8 Pro (no 7.5 update). Right now there is only Cubase 6.5.5 and 8 Pro here.

Runs better than any previous versions of cubase I’ve ever owned. Except VST 3.5/5.1 … :laughing: I miss the IPS…

Seems to working fine now.

iMac 3.1 i7 processor running Yosemite 10.10.1
16gb RAM

Check out attachment

I am running the integrated graphics: Intel Graphics 4600.
One doesn’t need a graphics card for DAW - unless you also participate in video editing.

Hi all,

All running pretty well here, apart from the stupid Bassamp VST problem (can’t find reverence impulse file) , System specs in the signature.

Best Regards

Dave

Windows 8.1 Professional, 64 bit
i7 4930k, watercooled and overclocked to 4.1 GHz
32 GB of RAM
3 SSDs, 1 HDD
RME Multiface

Works like a charm.

I work with 44.1 kHz of sampling @ 24 bits. Usually 32 samples buffer when songwriting / designing sounds / tracking and 1024 samples when mixing.

ASIO Guard always highest setting.

All running smooth on my system and enjoying the new features:

CPU: Intel i7 3770
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA Z77M-D3H
Memory: 16 Gigs
SSD for OS: Samsung 840 Pro
HDD for Samples & Audio: Seagate Barracuda
OS: Win 7 64bit
Video Cards:

  1. NVIDA GTX670 2 Gig
  2. Onboard Intel HD graphics
    Monitors: 6 of them, across the two graphics cards! This works much better in C8 Pro

Tweaks:

  1. Use Steinberg Power Settings
  2. Windows updates on automatic, as are the NVIDIA driver updates (but see 3)
  3. Bitdefender Antivirus automatically shuts off Windows Updates and other background virus related tasks while Cubase 8 is running.
  4. I run two OS partitions, this one is exclusively for Cubase and related plugins plus some additional utilities useful when composing for video.
  5. Weekly backups!

V.5 since I had any trouble and that turned out to be CPU power-saving (dealt with in BIOS, then Steinberg Audio Power). On V.8.0.0 I had intermittent spikes in Disk Cache Load indicator on transport but I’ve not seen them for a while, esp since 8.0.5.

Don’t know how heavy a load I run but usually got a fair few compressors and amps running, sometimes VariAudio too (and on more than one track).


SOFTWARE
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
Cubase 8.0.5 64-bit

  • Device Setup: Steinberg Audio Power Scheme ON
  • Device Setup: Multiprocessing ON

HARDWARE
Focusrite Saffire LE (FW400) v.1.6
Dell XPS 8100 Desktop

  • CPU: Intel i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz (HT OFF, C-State OFF, SpeedStep ON, TurboBoost OFF - most important)
  • Chipset: Intel H57
  • RAM: 4 x 2 GB DDR3-1333 MHz
  • HDD: Non-RAID, 2 x 1TB Samsung HD103SJ (7,200 RPM; DTR: 250 MB/sec; Latency: 4.17 ms)
  • Grafix: ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series (v.8.850.0.0)

Working very good and fast here too but only after I made up a new template in C8 with all Plugins, Vsti’s and so on. When I loaded my C7.5 and older projects, it really took a long time to load and save.

No tweaks except my NIC is switched off in BIOS.
My Sysconfig is in the footnote.

Works fine here. Win 7 64bit, i7-4770K @4.3GHz, ASUS Z87-K, 16Gb, RME HDSP 9652

Aloha guys just to chime in,

1-PERFECTLY!

on a new MBP running 10.10.x
Absolutely flawless!


Also runs fine on my desktop running 10.9.x
but still has a minor startup prob. (probably pilot error)

IMHO best Cubase ever; bar none.
{‘-’}

No big problems here with v8 (haven’t test 8.0.5 yet). The 2 things I’ve noticed is the mixer not opening on the second screen, and the pre-roll value doesn’t recall correctly when I open a project created with v7 or v7.5.

Hackintosh OSX 10.8.5
Intel i7 Quad-core (can remember the code, it’s the model before the introduction of the thunderbolt chipset, 4 years old)
12 GB Ram G-Skill
Video Card AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 6850
SSD for boot drive and an other for samples.
RME UFX via firewire, latest firmware/drivers.

I haven’t format and reinstall everything since I installed Mountain Lion, which is maybe 2 years ago.

It’s working well for me. I had more problems with 7.

Windows 8.1 Pro x64
Intel 4.00 Ghz i7-4790K
Samsung 840 SSD
ASrock Z97 Extreme 4
16 GB GEIL DRAM
NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 video
TI 1394 PCI card
Presonus RM16AI

tweaked according to this: Tweaking Windows 8.1 For Audio and Music Production - YouTube

C8P is working great here except for the sluggish Control Room Meters. (this happens after leaving the system on for more than 16hrs - idle or doing something else)

Spec in sig below with the addition
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z77 D3H (drivers as per Gigabyte Website except audio and video drivers)
Ram - Kingstons
HDD - Seagate 500GB, 1+1TB (Raid), 2T [SATA]
Win7 x64 SP1 - updates disabled since install, offline
HD6970 - AMD 12-8 (all including Hydravision except HDMI Audio driver)
UR44 - driver 1.0 from boxed CD

Audio Driver selection
C8P - Yamaha ASIO
Sound Forge - Windows Classic WDM
Adobe - Adobe WDM

Tweaks
all necessary C-States, power options OFF in BIOS (hyper-threading ON)
Windows:

  • core parking OFF
  • all other sound stuff disabled or uninstalled
  • power maxed
  • network ON, fixed IP no internet
    HD6970:
  • disable GPU & Power throttling via Profiles

Additional tweaks

What I do to optimize Win-7 64 Bit for audio. - Cubase - Steinberg Forums - last post

Apart from some completely irritating bugs (Fxpansion products half-working, and random RIP crashes), C8 is performing pretty well for me; noticably better (by which I mean smoother, faster, less of a asio/cpu load) than 7.5.

Win7 64
i7 3770
16 Gb ram
AMD HD7770 2Gb
256Gb Sammy ssd
1.5Tb WD Hd.
Roland Quad Capture.

I’ve touched nothing in the BIOS - just adjusted the power scheme so that nothing can “turn off”, including all USB hubs. No Onboard sound, as well as the HD audio drivers that come with the video card, are turned off. No Win sounds. I also don’t have Quicktime installed, as I don’t use iTunes (QTime/iTunes can negatively affect Win systems for DAW’s - this is often overlooked). Although I have USB3 - and the interface says it’s USB 3 ready - I only use USB 2 ports. That’s it - I really hate fussing over computers.

System details in my sig. No modifications except the usual ones recommended on the Steinberg knowledgebase.
C8 works fine on both systems, and puts significantly less load on them than C7 did.