I have disabled my firewalls in an attempt to alleviate it, to no avail.

I’m not trying to get 2 issues resolved with one post, but in case the two are related, it has always taken Cubase about 10 minutes to load (even on Cubase 10 and 10.5), which I know is super slow, I’ve just never taken the time to get that fixed. No anti-virus scanning is happening in the background. I’ve deleted Cubase preferences multiple times. I have uninstalled/reinstalled Cubase multiple times. All of my plugins are up to date (80% of them were bought within the last month). Most of my synth libraries (Spectrasonics, Arturia) are on my C drive, while the rest are on an internal SSD disk. I know I’ve used this rig at over 60% CPU in other contexts before it demonstrated any indications of strain. Because when Analog Lab is enabled in the larger session and Cubase is in playback, I’m using only 37% CPU, and 28% Memory. I wish the support agent or myself had, on that call, looked at my Task Manager. This is also why my second call to support ended with such a verdict. This is why I say Cubase is functioning as though I’m giving it too much to handle with my processor with these larger sessions. The weird thing is, if I create a brand new session and use Analog Lab as the only track, it works just fine. Right now the synth I’m using is Arturia’s Analog Lab V. I found that a synth called Cardinal was to a small degree worsening the issue, but even with it removed Cubase is still unusable when any moderately CPU-intensive synth is enabled.

I contacted support, who guided me through removing all 3rd party plugs and then adding them back one by one to make sure they’re compatible with Cubase. Right now I’m using basically the Austin Hull template but with 3rd party plugins, and even though almost all tracks are either disabled or frozen, and I have just one synth enabled, playback skips and stutters constantly. But even though my processor and RAM usage are nowhere nearly maxed out, Cubase is functioning as if it is. synths and considerably larger arrangements. Since then I’ve been experimenting with pop music i.e.

Up until a couple of months ago my sessions had been acoustic and minimal, with almost all live audio tracks. Cubase has been my main DAW for about 4 years.

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