Random Audio Drop Outs

Cubase
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I use CUBASE Artist 12.0.70 and have recently experienced random short (say 1 sec) audio drop outs when playing songs, typically 3-5 drop outs in a 4 minute song.
“Audio performance” does not indicate any peak problems. ASIO guard running at maxium about 5-8% of capacity during peaks. I have an i7 2.9 GHz computer wih 32 GB RAM and Win 11 Home 64 bit. My audio interface is UR-RT4 using the newest Yamaha Steinberg USB driver version 2.1.6 . Does any of you know how to solve this issue

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Hi,

Try to increase the Buffer Size, please.

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My current setting is 256 samples

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Hi,

Try to increase it, please.

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Thanks for advice.
Increased it to 2048 samples with no change. 3-4 audio drop outs on 3m40 long song

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Is it random? You may have an expired license plugin or in trial-demo mode periodically muting the audio out

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Thanks for comment. I changed a standard CUBASE EQ effect on Stereo Out channel from CurveEQ to Studio EQ and the latency caused by the effects on that channel reduced from about 5 to0.6 ms, and that solved the problem.

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Weird though…I mean no indication on vst performance suggested that you run out of resources, yet the eq mode change suggests that you changed it to a lighter mode and problem is gone.

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Hi just yesterday applied the patch to go to 12.0.70 and found a particular file that all of a sudden had developed the same issue with seemingly random drop outs. After some detective work I realised it was because of a plug in track doubler effect that i was using. Disabled the effect and it worked fine again…but it wasnt a problem until I did the upgrade…

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I had also audio drop outs. (C13 and windows 10 pro) Removing Izotope Ozone elements from my main out solved the problem for me. And it wasn’t even active…