"Infinite Notes" in Cubase 7 w/Kontakt and PLAY

Hey guys,

I’m having this really strange problem that seems to happen when I have a lot of samples loaded. I have 4.5 GB of ram still unused and 70% CPU unused, so it doesn’t seem to be a capacity problem.

Sometimes, in PLAY and KONTAKT, using EWQL and Komplete setups, my strings will all of a sudden play a note and extend it for infinity, even after the stop button is pushed. Sometimes playing and stopping the piece again will get it to stop, but most of the time it doesn’t. It also seems to “infect” a track. Once it starts happening, no amount of closing/reopening Cubase will make it not do it. It seems to do it at random. Here are some solutions I’ve tried

  • Rebooting the computer
  • Restarting Cubase
  • Closing all background programs
  • boosting the priority of the ASIO driver
  • changing samples (mostly happens with strings, oddly, but has happened with other things)
  • Copying/pasting the track to another track (works sometimes, but not for long)
  • checking the sustain

Anyway, any advice on how to tackle this problem would be great, because right now it’s killing my ability to write. THe problem does NOT seem to cross over into a mixdown - if I mix it to an MP3, the song plays normally.

Thanks
Joe

Like Steve, I don’t have an answer and I am not familiar with these plugins per se, but hanging notes sometimes happen with external synthesizers, as can be imagined. :slight_smile:

Does it ever happen when playing a MIDI keyboard?
Does it happen when the sequencer is playing on its own?
Does it only happen with these plugins?
Does the Cubase MIDI (menu) Reset (menu item) not resolve the situation when it happens?