KVR Audio

Ghost Snake · Post by **Ghost Snake** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:39 am

I've been using Cubase Essential for a long time now..... worked fine up to C5, after that it seems to have problems, tried with 3 different sound cards, it's the DAW. I get ASIO OVERLOAD by opening Prologue and synth1

Is there a way to revert to a previous version, like C5 or C6 ?
The Steinberg Download manager they make you download is a big giant mess, plus it's very slow.

chk071 · Post by **chk071** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:47 am

Try to optimize your system: https://helpcenter.steinberg.de/hc/en-u ... ation-DAW-

The most important one:

Energy saving
Any energy saving option should be deactivated in favor of continuous operation.
Open Control Panel ▸ Power Options ▸ Create a power plan ▸ High Performance and set the computer sleep time to ‘Never’.
Once set-up, go to Change plan settings ▸ Change advanced power settings ▸ USB settings and disable the ‘USB selective suspend settings’.

What is your CPU?

Googly Smythe · Post by **Googly Smythe** » Tue Mar 02, 2021 2:26 pm

Near the end of this page...
https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/un ... ase_5.html

Or

https://support.steinberg.de/ISOs/Cubas ... .0.602.iso
Essential :
https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/un ... s_ce5.html

alonl6 · Post by **alonl6** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 6:19 am

I had same problem. I found that my cooling system was damaged. Too much heat can give cpu spikes with 1-3 plug-ins open. it’s good idea to check if you have such problems

Ghost Snake · Post by **Ghost Snake** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:19 am

Thx for the replies, I will check the cpu heating system and optimize the OS. However other daws (cakewalk, reaper) work flawlessly

LeVzi · Post by **LeVzi** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 9:30 am

Which version of Cubase is giving you problems ? The newest 11 ? And the one you used before was 5 ? I'm lost here.

But at a guess i'd say you are overloading the graphics. Are you using onboard graphics or you have a card ?

Cubase went hard on the GUI when it changed from the V5 or V6 versions, I can't remember when it changed V7 or V8 that Aero was required.

Ghost Snake · Post by **Ghost Snake** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:06 pm

I had been using C4 and then C5 for many years with no issues. Then decided to upgrade to C10, and I started getting those crackles. Decided it was the audio interface (motu microbook), bought another one. Nothing changed. Upgraded the computer, no success.

I can't understand how I could be overloading the graphic interface with one single plugin, Prologue, but maybe you are right. I'm using the onboard Nvidia graphic.

I have a feeling that this problem is related to WIN10.......

fese · Post by **fese** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:26 pm

Be sure to exclude Cubase from your antivirus online scanner, that can definitely create performance problems, just recently had similar problems, Cubase going into overload when e.g. opening plugins. For whatever reason (windows update) cubase 10.5 wasn’t in the exclude list from the microsoft defender thingy anymore. Told it to exclude cubase10.5.exe, and boom, no problems anymore.

LeVzi · Post by **LeVzi** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 3:34 pm

Ghost Snake wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 1:06 pm I had been using C4 and then C5 for many years with no issues. Then decided to upgrade to C10, and I started getting those crackles. Decided it was the audio interface (motu microbook), bought another one. Nothing changed. Upgraded the computer, no success.

I can't understand how I could be overloading the graphic interface with one single plugin, Prologue, but maybe you are right. I'm using the onboard Nvidia graphic.

I have a feeling that this problem is related to WIN10.......

Download this and run it, see if your DPC latency is bad

https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

Ghost Snake · Post by **Ghost Snake** » Wed Mar 03, 2021 8:25 pm

I think I got lucky, it seems to work now. There was another audio driver active, that plus some sample rate mess, my M-Audio is pretty unpredictable on that particular aspect.

I disabled the unused audio driver and I was able to open (and play) 10 instances of Prologue with no issues

LeVzi · Post by **LeVzi** » Thu Mar 04, 2021 6:04 am

Ghost Snake wrote: Wed Mar 03, 2021 8:25 pm I think I got lucky, it seems to work now. There was another audio driver active, that plus some sample rate mess, my M-Audio is pretty unpredictable on that particular aspect.

I disabled the unused audio driver and I was able to open (and play) 10 instances of Prologue with no issues

Yeah I disable all onboard audio drivers, or HDMI audio in the graphics card, just let the 2 I use.

Ghost Snake · Post by **Ghost Snake** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 7:50 am

Exactly, the problem seems to be the HDMI audio driver of my Tv-monitor....

major_mixing · Post by **major_mixing** » Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:05 pm

Try to Turn On or Turn off Asio Guard. Sometimes it works badly. Also, this issue can be caused by plugin itself. You can try to run this plugin on VST 3

wpostma · Post by **wpostma** » Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:57 am

Someone mentioned LatencyMon from resplendence. Grab it and let it run for 8 hours on your machine. Any DPC latency in excess of 1000 microseconds (1 millisecond, 1/1000 second) WILL from time to time cause these pops and clicks.

There's a great page on what you can do, besides disabling the stuff you already disabled, including some BIOS settings that can be changed.

https://www.sweetwater.com/sweetcare/ar ... cy-issues/

dellboy · Post by **dellboy** » Fri Mar 19, 2021 9:29 am

Googly Smythe wrote: Tue Mar 02, 2021 2:26 pm Near the end of this page...
https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/un ... ase_5.html

Or

https://support.steinberg.de/ISOs/Cubas ... .0.602.iso
Essential :
https://www.steinberg.net/en/support/un ... s_ce5.html

Hey Googly,

If you see this, I just clicked your soundcloud link and listened to the "The Blacksmith of Bagdad" and really enjoyed it !

They gotta be real drums playing - right ?

And were you once a professional drummer ?

Anyways it was "King Crimson - meets Pink Floyd - along with a lot of other 60s - 70s inspired stuff.

Great !

I mean, really good.

I am listening to "Loved and Lost" now.

Cubase 10 crackles with only 1 vst opened