I have a 2011 Macbook Pro with 7200 rpm hard drive.
I am experiencing a behaviour that does not seem normal to me.
I open a new Cubase project and import a single wav file 44.1/24bit.
I am running it at 256 buffers with the onboard soundcard. When I playback the file the Asio meter barely moves (5%) but I get Asio spikes that result to clicks in the sound. Is this normal? I don’t have any plugins loaded at all and I playback a single audio file. I believe that the internal soundcard of a Macbook Pro should be able to handle such an easy task.
Is this normal? I would be glad if I could have some feedback from MBP owners.
If 32bit (I don’t have any experience of 64bit) under Devices>Device Setup>VST Audio System set Audio Priority to Boost, check multi-processing.
Turn off bluetooth and Airport. If problem persists, open Activity Monitor (Applications>Utilities) and have a look at what processes are running. That may give you a clue about what’s causing the spiking. With very little running you should see masses of unused RAM and low cpu usage.
It definitely should not be happening. If you’re still stuck, I would re-install Cubase. Don’t use any templates from older versions of Cubase.
This is a new MacBook so no previous Cubase was installed.
I am runnIng Cubase 32bit.
Bluetooth is off.
Audio priority is set to normal.
I will try disabling Airport and will see how it goes.