Slow loading of prelisten sounds in Media Bay

Cubase
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The one thing thats annoys me the most when working in Cubase is the slow loading of prelisten sounds in the Media Bay. I work mainly with midi and VST sounds and to have a smooth workflow I really want a quick access to the sounds from the sound library for prelistening. Audio files in the loop browser show up instantly, but when I want to prelisten to a VST sound for a midi or instrument track it takes a few seconds for it to load. And a delay of a few seconds is extremely long time when you quickly want to find the right sound among hundreds or even thousends. So irritating! :imp:

In an attempt to eliminate this problem I this year bought a brand new computer with a powerful multicore processor and a SSD type hard drive. The loading got quicker but did not by far get as fast as I had hoped for.

This has never been an issue when browsing through soundbanks in any cheap keyboard i´ve had for the last 25 years. Why is this still a fact in this modern, powerful and professional music production system Cubase? Or am I the only one experiencing this problem? Is there someway to eliminate the delay for prelisten the sounds in Media Bay?

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Hi and welcome,

the whole plug-in instance has to be loaded in the background, before you can hear the sound. This is the reason, why does it take time.

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So it´s the same for everybody using Cubase, and something we just have to live with? Is that it? Sad…

I paid a visit to a friend of mine couple of weeks ago, and watched him work with his DAW - using Logic on a Mac.
I did not see this type of delay there when he was loading sounds from the library for prelisten. Got kind of jealous…