First day and I am seeing a significant CPU usage performance improvement with N15, about 25-30% improvement, I am able to go from 500 to 250 with soundcard asio buffer, I am not running large orchestral templates, just Maschine with 4 tracks running, Falcon with two augmented orch patches, CSS ensemble, Cremora Quarter ( with Stacc arp ) , OMNI piano base and a third vocal patch, Absynth 6, all of this going at the same time ( I have novation SLMK 8 track midi so can select hold and run alot at the same time across midi channels, which is a quick way to see what can be handled at once ) - anyone else noticing improvements ? Before this would tax my system at 500 buffer,
No, unfortunately not. Progressively worse since N13.
I am finding greater stability, with N15, particularly in relation to having multiple projects opened, and with activating and deactivating projects.
Also, unloading projects is far quicker and the program is less prone to crashing.
Its gone both ways for me. A few projects are better than they were in Cubase 14 for me (I just switched to Nuendo) and the majority are the same. In general closing seems to be a bit faster though.
ugh - I will monitor this over time, I did not start a new template from scratch, I opened a N14 project and then saved under new name and folder, and noticed the improvement,
Please understand that I absolutely love the updates and features in N15. Steinberg always delivers so many wonderful benefits to the workflow.
I just wish they could address performance - a topic that is being addressed in another big thread. Steinberg are aware of the issue and, unfortunately, to fix it is going to take major resources and time. Personally, I’d be happy to pay for that update alone with no additional features added.
From my experience, performance is something that is addressed over time.
We are only just in with V15, for both DAW’s, and there is a way to go yet, to address performance issues, and with so many CPU’s to support and ever changing OS requirements, staying on a prior verion is an option.
For me, I find upgrading gives me performance improvements but not always real time improvoements, which often I can live with so long as I can record; the odd pop and crackle on playback is not an issue.
the issue is with our multicore CPU’s on MAc and Windows Cubase/Nuendo craps out (ASIO GUARD) with less that 30% system usage on my Mix projects, that’s with a MAc Studio ULtra M3 and my AMD 9950x machine… same issue… so basically 70% of the cpu resources are goin unused unless you use the workaround of Audio gridder Locally.
This situation has NOT improved since Cubase/Nuendo 12… that’s quite a few years ago..
The issue is, IMHO the man who wrote the audio engine back in the day (Nuendo 2, cubase SX),left Steinberg so everything is being patched on that code…huge technical debt/legacy debt now…
This isn’t going to change unless ‘someone’ and Steinberg re writes the whole audio engine.
That can have many repercussions though, back wards compatability being the main one…
Also performance is very project dependant was well… so it’s a compromise, even Apple who have a fixed set of hardware, can’t get Logic audio performing as well as it could, so that show’s you it’s a very complex task. If you copy and Paste a track with plugins in Cubendo you’ll see that it scales really well if you open up the Task Manager, all cores get loaded nicely… however with a real world mix project with bussing and Aux sends etc then ASIO guard falls over easily.
So, yes, we keep upgrading our machines and get better performance, but really we could keep them and unlock the 70% unused performance and be a LOT happier.
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This!!! 