Is there any way to fix this?
every single time I open a preset menu to find preset for Steinberg synths , preset browser window takes about 2-6 seconds to refresh and show all presets.
This preset browser issue only happens for Steinberg synths tho. 3rd party vsti work ok with their own built it preset browsers.
Yep, same here, slow preset browser (cubase preset list) & mediabay
I assume this is a common problem since so many developers use their own preset solutions. I had this problem before so it’s been present for users on just about all Cubase versions the last years.
last time I had it I would have to wait much longer then 10 seconds to get presets showing… my solution was in the windows registry
what i did was enter regedit in my windows start menu… then I’d go to
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE
and from there I would just delete all the plugins i didn’t have in my computer anymore… like I had an old string for Kontakt I would delete that inside the native instruments folder… i had a seperate folder for izotope plugin demos, I just deleted the whole string.
also, you could try to reduce the number of hits to show in results for media bay. I think the default is 10000, I set mine to 500.
But you can just un-check unnecessary folders in medibay, or mediabay also scans regisrty ?
Interesting, will try this! thanks
I have no idea how this is coded but my with my logic I assume the preset manager was looking into these registry strings to know where to look for presets (and for me once it didn’t look for nonexisting presets my excessive wait times was over)
i dont think thats the problem because this only happens specifically with steinberg vst and vsti presets,
other vst and vsti use their own browsers and have nothing close to this issue because theres no need to use cubase’s browser
same exact issue here.
this is one of the main reasons I stopped using stock steinberg plugins
The media bay is not slow here.
good for you, but it’s slow for me and many others
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Thx mate!
how did you make your to work fast ? any special settings ? please share any tips
Use SSD drive for C:
Also i expect when thousands of presets are present, the mediabay will get slower.
That might be a cause for a slower mediabay.
Also i do not know if mediabay searches trough large sample libraries or even samples on your drives.
This could have larger search times.
I also do not know if you can pass directories to mediabay, in options, maybe another user knows that.
But the more folders mediabay and files it has to search presets in, it will take a longer time.
I use very fast SSD (nvme m.2 samsung) as drive C, and same ssd type for another drive
Its great you have a fast ssd. Did you read the rest ?
and I use mediabay just for audio samples and loops, no large libraries
Basically i said my mediabay is not slow.
So what do you understand as slow?
Slow is when I select a folder in media bay and it doesn’t show anything from that folder but than after about 20 seconds it would show, then select another folder same problem
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I use SSD and M.2 Drives on a AMD Ryzen 9 5950X with 128gig of Ram.
I have created 400 presets for Chord pads. It take about a minute to open the preset browser. The wheels keep on spinning… At first I thought it had to do with the amount of files in a given folder. But I do not believe so.
As an example.
I have a folder with more the 100K Audio Loops.
When that folder was separated in to 1000’s of smaller folders the media recall time was the roughly same.
I do not believe there is a problem with the quantity of files within a folder. I believe there is an issue where the Media is looking or cross-referencing file location.
There is no reason for me to rescan a folder containing 300 one-shot 2 days in a row… It was rescanned the previous day.
If I were to move a couple of files from one folder to another, then this would effect the Mediabay database file… Maybe the issue is the “mediabay3.db” is corrupted every time you add and remove files into the previously scanned folders. Even after scanning the file may still be corrupt.
I don’t have a top tier desktop computer but it is fairly powerful.
Tonight I’m going to remove all folder of stock Cubase files/presets from the Mediabay searches then I will see if this effects the time from personal collection of files.