Thanks for all your great videos! I have a question...when I disable vst instruments and then enable they will not play back/no output... and then I have to create a new instance of the vst, then move event to the new instrument, and then move all plug ins, reset all eqs, pre, levels ect. Pretty sure this is some small fix but having this issue takes up a lot of time. I also want to be able to render midi to audio and disable and then re enable the midi instrument for later if needed. PS would love if you ever have the time to do a video on all the project save types...I want to save different phases of my workflow and then recall them ie writing, recording, and programming phase, editing phase, arranging phase, mix phase, and master phase. Any suggestions? Have a great day thanks for everything, Angelina
Chris, I've used Direct Offline Processing for mixing at times by setting up the insert chain for a channel in the Mix Console then once I get the sound I'm looking for, I'll save it as a preset, clear the chain then go to open up the preset in the DOP box.
Thanks for the great tips, Chris! If you are using VST3 plugins, you can benefit from "Suspend VST3 plug-in processing when no audio signals are received." option. It can be found in Cubase: Edit > Preferences > VST > Plug-ins Basically if your audio or FX channel doesn't have any sound playing, it will use 0% CPU. This have been really helpful when dealing with bigger Cubase projects.
Appreciated Chris! Note to anyone out there, looking at your running background tasks on your computer will help massively too. On the Windows Task Manager, you can disable various processes from starting up to begin with and close/disable some services you don't need, you would need to look at what they are and what is safe to disable. Anytime you install a piece of software, the likelyhood is that it's auto configured to run in the background even if you don't launch it. Spotify, OneDrive, Skype etc. Anti Virus software may be scanning constantly in the background too, this will eat up your CPU and slow down the drive, so exclude the location of where your projects live on the drive from being scanned along with where your VST's are on (assuming you don't keep any dodgy files there). Some of the audio drop outs are related to the network card, so if you don't need the Internet or network access, disable it.
OH. MY. GOD. Setting the plugins like gate and other restaurational stuff and then dragging it into the direct processing and turning it of on the inserts, saves SO MUCH time on export. Oh man, so much love for this tip!
It's good...but i recommend to removed due to it still just a little bit of memory. I came out with this specially with Acusticas 3rd party plugins and it works. TRY IT..!!
A quick word of warning, there is a continuing bug recognized on Cubase forum (I think even in 11 pro) where when re-enabling instrument tracks, the MIDI output is lost (no sound) and can’t seem to be reconnected to the instrument. It happened to me and even copying the MIDI part to another channel doesn’t seem to work. You have to recreate the MIDI event and it lost me a lot of time 😟 Hopefully freezing doesn’t have this effect so maybe a better option but perhaps test both on your system with a sample before using on live instrument channels with complicated MIDI parts.
Hi, thanks to share all your tips ! It really helps =) I aslo could add on tips this one: Removing Unused Clips from the "Pool", i think sometimes my project is more heavy and consuming more CPU with more performance , so i feel like it help to have a more clean project deleting some clips in the back, and avoid glitching stuff. That is all
Chris, you saved my session and wallet with the direct offline processing!!! CPU is still pretty high, however, I am notgetting these damn spikes and audio cracks any more! Thanks a lot!!!
00:00 Intro 1:11 Increase audio interface buffer size 4:53 Activate multi processing and ASIO Guard 6:56 Print your VST instruments before starting a mix 7:54 Freezing audio channels 10:47 Don’t mix at a high sample rate 11:22 Remove unused plugins (disable tracks) 12:37 Direct offline processing 14:55 Share reverbs for more than one track 16:00 Mix using group channels 17:37 Print some FX channels 19:05 Work with stock plugins 20:32 Activate high performance (Windows 10 only)
One more tip, if the Cubase "cache" meter is maxing out: Delete all portions of your audio that are silent. Even if there is no audio, the computer is still reading the 0's and 1's and that increases the streaming load. I just was mixing a 126-track song and got terrible dropouts to the point that it was impossible to work. The "cache" meter was maxed out. Then I cut out all the silent portions and immediately the meter dropped down to zero on most of the song and maybe 50% on just a few busy sections. What a difference this made! TIP: In Cubase, go to Audio/Advanced/Detect Silence to do this automatically.
Being an old guy, I worked on tape only decades ago. As I progressed to sequencers (the original Cubase!) and on to modern DAWs, I've stuck to an 'traditional' workflow that captures a lot of these tips. Basically, I treat tracking, mixing and mastering as separate tasks for a track and use separate projects for each. So when tracking, the only plugins used are those affecting the 'captured' performance. Commit to the sound as early as you can. When tracking is done, act as if you were sending the tracks off to another mixing engineer using a different DAW. So basically print everything without any effects that are part of the mixing domain. This means a lot of EQ and compression stuff can be minimized in the tracking stage, which helps minimize CPU load when tracking. It also minimizes CPU load when mixing as you are starting with clean audio tracks. Similarly, when mixing is complete, print to stereo and start a new project for mastering the track. This is really helpful when mastering an EP or album, for in those cases part of mastering is trying to get a consistent sound across the entire group of tracks...
Thank you! I love how you also show where stuff is in the menus like you did with the performance meter! That stuff can be frustrating sometimes when looking for an answer about something entirely different etc.
Chris, I personally feel that it is critical to understand the difference between CPU performance and the Cubase internal performance as measured by the the Cubase Performance meter. As you do not distinguish between the two, it is extremely important to understand that CPU performance is not the same as Cubase performance. See the explanation in the following link: ruclips.net/video/GUsLLEkswzE/видео.html
This is really good stuff. I'm certainly having CPU performance issues where nothing happens on pressing play, and I find myself shutting the song down and opening it, a few times, before it 'recognises' all the recorded stuff and allows me to hear everything, so I'm looking forward to trying a few of these tips. One of the irritating things I have just now is that occasionally - say 1 in 10 times - simply plugging in my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 causes Windows 10 to crash and reboot. The Scarlett is showing up as 3 devices in my devices manager, and I think this may be the problem. Windows thinks I'm plugging in 3 things all at the same time, can't handle it, and crashes. Making music's just not as easy as it should be!
Thank you for these great settings to increase the performance of our DAW. You mention the importance of the sample rate, but what is the best sample rate you recommand for the best quality in music production ?
Very, very valuable tips, thank you very much Chris. I had noticed myself that the Cubase Multi Tap Delay can massively increase the average audio load, even if it's on a muted track. The only thing that helps is to turn off the track completely. It took me some time to recognize the cause, because I couldn't believe that a muted track could be responsible for this 👍😎
Dude you just helped SO many people out!!! This was one of the most useful topics to touch on!! I'm about to pick up a new pc running 6 core 10th gen i5 with nvme drive system. I honestly don't expect problems, but boy have I experienced them! I'm gonna make sure I share this with all my buddies!! Thanks!!
Another great Cubase tips... I hope Steinberg pay you royalties !!! If not they should ! I did not search a lot for videos about Cubase but so far you are making the most valuable content I ever seen ! Better than what I could see on Steinberg channel. Generally in audio industry, I feel that companies are more concerned about selling their products (actually its obsessional) so they make poor videos content for support, for learning how to use well their products. When they try this kind of content they are just showing off. It's like the product manager of the videos is always the **** marketing guy...
Thanks for the nice comment! No royalties involved with Steinberg, I choose the make these videos to help people out with music production and Cubase, cause I just love Cubase :-) Don't worry, I have a very good relationship with Steinberg, very nice people working there ;-)
Under studio setup in Cubase, there's a "Steinberg Audio Power Plan" toggle (I think it's in 10 and up). This is basically like activating "High Performance" power plan in windows, and it'll do it every time Cubase launches. I think it's windows only though. That aside, great tips!
Yes, It seems to be doing the same as "High Performance" on Windows but for Cubase only. Thanks for mention it! I never payed attention to this one since I'm already using "High Performance" on Win that will also affect my video editing software.
Really cool tips thanks mate. I read that Cubase sucks because it cannot split the plugins on one track across CPU cores... so loading up one track with plugins will kill performance. Therefore I changed my workflow to split workload with groups and busses. Seems to help.
Can you do A video on what happens when you ' archive ' something. As in " Where does it go? like what folder? " " how to find where to locate them. " " or how to unarchive " when and where to use it and when NOT to use it. Thank you. Got yourself another subscriber! Great video!!
Another tip would be print specific VST plugins. For example, Neural DSP amp sims are very CPU heavy, especially at high oversampling. Get the tone that fits well in the raw mix, print it down, then start mixing. Another example would be printing your drum samples. They may not take up a lot of room, but every little one adds up. It also helps if you're moving from one computer to another, so you don't lose the sample you just did on Slate Trigger 2.
Excellent video! I loaded my biggest mix and checked out the meter. I was only at one quarter with sample rate at 512. My processor is an i7 10th generation. It works beautifully all the time. The only thing I hadn't done as far as set up goes was try adjusting the buffer size. I had it down to 32 samples before I saw red lights. Seems to works fine at 64. Latency down to 2.83ms on input and 2.50 on out. Any benefits to run it this fast or not run it this fast when mixing? And, I saw you built an i9 awhile ago. What sample rate do you have it set up at? Cheers 🍻
This is such a great video, thank you Chris! Any chance you could do one for production, where you'd use a lot of vsts and for recording? Something like how pop music would be done today, lots of plugins and recording until the very last minute, before the mix stage. Thank you in advance!
That will go aroung the same tips to be honest. It is harder to manage when recording since you need as less latency as possible. So freezing VSTi(s) is pretty handy and also the power of your computer plays a huge role when working with VSTi(s).
Processing precision you have on 64 bit, I am still on 32, do you advise changing up and is it ok mid project? I don't use 32 bit plugs. Great video! I am also maxed out on average audio processing, but except for freezing tracks, I have tried everything on this video. This is a fast i mac too.
Dear Chris, first time I write a comment (although I liked all billion videos You have made and I have watched - everything you do is just great, even for professionals --- so many great shortcuts and useful tips. I have also one question - I figured how you went on to print Your FX (verb) channel. When I tried to do this and made a Track, I can use DRUM VERB as IN, but just while making track window is opened, but as soon as track is created, I can't see it as INPUT any more. Only INPUTS from my USB device and some Groups, but no FX channel INPUTS... Do You have any idea why? I use Cubase 10.5 on Windows 10.
Hi Chris! Joe here from Rochester, NY. Hope all is well! How do you feel about disabling the interned along with disabling your virus checker while recording or mixing? Do you think these things matter to save computer power also? Just curious on your thoughts about this.
Excellent vid, Chris! Quick question... With freezing audio/vst intrument with channel plugins - does this affect audio quality at all when they're kept frozen during Export/Audio Mixdown? Or is it best to unfreeze before the final mixdown? Thanks!
hey Chris, thanks a lot for your channel - really great info! Super channel!! I recently upgraded to 10.5 and noticing an interesting problem - when a Cubase stock multiband compressor is added as an insert to a audio track (guitar or vox), the track becomes affected by a very significant delay in comparison to the rest of the mix. The delay persists even when the multiband compressor is disabled and only disappears when I remove it from the inserts completely. Is this something common and is there a way around it....? Thanks in advance for your response.
Very helpful! I have a quick question I'm struggling with :/ When I go to audio/bounce selection it said that I don't have enough place on my disk. I did check the right disk with enough space in the open gray box when you start cubase, and my pool is set correctly I think haha. Don't know what to do now. Btw, I live in your City, it's nice to have audio guy near by, thanks for all of your content!
Hey Chris, After 20 years of using cubase I finally know what the freeze button is for. I dont know if i should feel stupid or lazy I'm still stuck with the concept. It seems that there are just multiple ways to do the same thing (print process) but with freeze it's just a simple button to turn on and off. Is freezing same as printing but less hassle to return to edit? Is freezing the same as offline processing except you can't edit with freezing? Thanks a lot for your video's!
Hey Chris! I would like to ask you or practitioners here about using disk space as an important resource. When working with Cubase, can you name or describe workflows where it makes sense to use external hard drives, especially NAS drives, on your local network? Or is it excluded in any case?
Dang, i didn’t know that apart from instruments you can also freeze audio channel... only downside is that you cannot any more inserts after the freeze, well you can’t add pre-fader inserts, to be precise. Would be really usefull for e.g. cpu hungry tape sims, insert them e.g. on all drum tracks, adjust settings, freeze. Then go ahead and add other plugins...that’d be really cool!
Hi!Thanks for the great advice.I have a question for you.When I go to task manager,I see that cubase power usage indicates very high.Is this normal or is there something to do about it?And while I’m at it do you render all tracks to remove all plugins before the final mixdown?And if not do I leave my buffersize at 1024 for this final mixdown?
Am I correct to say that the Option of Printing and XF channel... That on an audio track, under the Input settings, in the inspector menu, the inputs of GROUPS, FX are only for Cubase PRO and not Artist? @ your time-stamp 18:13
Hi. Thanks for your videos. Just a question. My iMac stops recording automaticly, when audio performance clips. How can I resolve this problem. Cubase 11. My old Cubase 8.5 didn't do that.
Render in Place is like Exporting back in your session, that means that you commit to the fx chain. I use Rendre in Place a lot to bounce MIDI to audio in a project. Freezing is good if you want to keep access to the processing chain of your audio channel. If that's the case, you just unfreeze to get the plugins back.
I allways freeze vst instruments right after selecting the sound I want to use. It lowers cpu processing immediately and I am still flexible adjusting all channel functions. If i want to change the sound, I unfreeze them and immeadiately they're ready to adjust.
Hi Chris, amazing tips, a pair of that will help me a lot. I am using C10 for 2 weeks now and all you videos are amazing. Tip of the day "disable track" ehehehe, didnt know this yet. I would tell you a problem I am having, I thought it was about cpu power, but probably not. Computer is new, very powerful win 10, cpu i9 9900K, 32 gigs ram, so very powerful. Something I never experienced after many years of cubase. I have midi PLAYBACK latency with exsternal instruments, with my hardware synthesizers, connect by USB midiman 8x8 and with my virus TI polar, connected USB. I mean, real time play latency it's perfect, 10ms or less. But when I playback a midi track sent to external synth via usb midi port my system has latency of about 20 ticks. Never seen something like that. I will try some of your advices, but I am afraid that it could be a big problem beetwen windows and cubase. Any idea? I will soon write on steinberg assistance, thx!
Happy you like my videos :-) i9 9900K, 32GRam is what I also have on my side. I don't have any external synth to test this out, so I'm afraid I'm not gonna be able to help you more with this. Let me know if Activating Asio Guard + Low Buffer size helps.
@@mixdownonline I will try as soon as I come back in studio, a couple of days. The kind of test I will do, is try to send a midi track to another virtual instrument but outside cubase. Not exctely a rewire, but similar. I mean I will open for example Kontakt or Arp synth from arturia or anything that has standalone feature, side by side with cubase, and will try to see if Cubase recognize it as another midi external device. Anyway thx for your interest.
Another Windows 10 tip is to use the Workstation edition. It’s meant for high end PC’s and has an “Ultimate Performance” power plan that optimizes things even more.
Hi Chris...I have a problem i hope you can help me. On Cubase pro 11 my double click on tracks to open editor are working after i double click 6 or 7 times. Specially when i have a normal project open. I tryed several mouses wireless and wired and all the same. i am on PC win 10 Pro with a great 5950x machine. Do you ever encounter this problem, is not just annoying but also time consummig. I end up to press the enter key now to open the midi editor on any track or audio editor because that double click seems to work when it wants. Thank you very much and love your work man. ;)
Thank you, this is a pretty timely video, I was just running into those problems had already addressed a few. Question: on the mixer I can load the latency of each channel, I'm assuming the the higher the latency is a direct relationship with the CPU load? So I start replacing the outboard plugins with on board now that I have the settings. And for the last tip, if you don't see high performance, there's a show additional plans drop down that you have to click to see the high performance option.
Hi Chris, I m using Cubase pro 10.5 and I m having issues with high avarage audio procecessing while using several plugins on lets tell, no more than 10tracks, buffer size is not to low, the audio scheme is on, everything normal but the avarage level goes high. The sound card is a focustite saffire pro, so I am in dilemma if is the firewire connection slower than a usb 3.0? Maybe a cpu problem? ( Intel i3 7th gen 3.2ghz) 16gb ram Or which is your suggestion?
Very nice! By the way did you tweak anything on your Thunderbolt Section inside motherboard BIOS ? Like increasing I/O, two port or one ... The thing is that I can run pretty much stuff while mixing, but when I'm recording, with plugins, at 192 Khz it's a bit hard to not get CPU spikes. Even with an I9-9900k, Thanks for your videos, they are always very helpfull !
Mixing at 192 Khz is a total waste of processing power because it doesn't improve the soundquality for rock-, pop- and dance-music in 99 % of the cases. It even can sound worse than lower sample rates due to the noise shaping and quantization of the digital converters. There are some good technical videos who explain the fact in great detail.
Man, I have an Issue just with a plugin by Slate Digital, the Virtual Tape machine, It adds alot of latency, how could I fix that? I'd really apreciate your answer, thanks so much for your videos! (Cubase 10.5) windows 10, the problem only happens in Cubase, with Reason it works pretty well
Hi Chris, this was your best potcast :-). And also how to improve the Windows Settings :-) My favorite Problem is currently: How can I define a Kind of filter or whatever to check the mix in Cubase for a sounding like cheap mono Handy Sound (Maybe with mp3 Quality)? It would be good to find in an early production Phase some weak Points. I have tried here some tonebooster Plugin but have not realy find here the perfect solution, so maybe you can give me here a good advice :-)
Happy you liked the video :-) Now, for your question, if I understand, you want to reference your Mixes using a filter or plugin to simulate cheap sound system? If so, there's a plugin called MixChecker that does that kind of stuff shop.audified.com/
Thank you for watching! If you have any other tips that I didn't mention in the video, feel free to share them down below :-)
Thanks for all your great videos! I have a question...when I disable vst instruments and then enable they will not play back/no output... and then I have to create a new instance of the vst, then move event to the new instrument, and then move all plug ins, reset all eqs, pre, levels ect. Pretty sure this is some small fix but having this issue takes up a lot of time. I also want to be able to render midi to audio and disable and then re enable the midi instrument for later if needed. PS would love if you ever have the time to do a video on all the project save types...I want to save different phases of my workflow and then recall them ie writing, recording, and programming phase, editing phase, arranging phase, mix phase, and master phase. Any suggestions? Have a great day thanks for everything, Angelina
Chris, I've used Direct Offline Processing for mixing at times by setting up the insert chain for a channel in the Mix Console then once I get the sound I'm looking for, I'll save it as a preset, clear the chain then go to open up the preset in the DOP box.
Thanks for the great tips, Chris!
If you are using VST3 plugins, you can benefit from "Suspend VST3 plug-in processing when no audio signals are received." option.
It can be found in Cubase: Edit > Preferences > VST > Plug-ins
Basically if your audio or FX channel doesn't have any sound playing, it will use 0% CPU. This have been really helpful when dealing with bigger Cubase projects.
GREAT! Didn't know this. Made my day with a huge project. Thanks :)
What an absolute trick!!! Huge thank you atteriihonen1283
Appreciated Chris!
Note to anyone out there, looking at your running background tasks on your computer will help massively too. On the Windows Task Manager, you can disable various processes from starting up to begin with and close/disable some services you don't need, you would need to look at what they are and what is safe to disable. Anytime you install a piece of software, the likelyhood is that it's auto configured to run in the background even if you don't launch it. Spotify, OneDrive, Skype etc. Anti Virus software may be scanning constantly in the background too, this will eat up your CPU and slow down the drive, so exclude the location of where your projects live on the drive from being scanned along with where your VST's are on (assuming you don't keep any dodgy files there). Some of the audio drop outs are related to the network card, so if you don't need the Internet or network access, disable it.
That's a very good tip..Thanks for sharing :-)
OH. MY. GOD. Setting the plugins like gate and other restaurational stuff and then dragging it into the direct processing and turning it of on the inserts, saves SO MUCH time on export. Oh man, so much love for this tip!
Glad it helped! :-)
You can also disable plugins. On Windows hold the Alt key and click the off switch of the plugin. It will gray out and removed from memory
Good tip, Patrick! Thanks!
It's good...but i recommend to removed due to it still just a little bit of memory. I came out with this specially with Acusticas 3rd party plugins and it works. TRY IT..!!
*still just draining a little..
Chris you’re an absolute master of Cubase love your channel 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Thanks my friend!
"Disable track" is what i need for my about 60 instrument tracks big projects! Thank you, Chris, you are the best ✌
Happy to help!
A quick word of warning, there is a continuing bug recognized on Cubase forum (I think even in 11 pro) where when re-enabling instrument tracks, the MIDI output is lost (no sound) and can’t seem to be reconnected to the instrument. It happened to me and even copying the MIDI part to another channel doesn’t seem to work. You have to recreate the MIDI event and it lost me a lot of time 😟 Hopefully freezing doesn’t have this effect so maybe a better option but perhaps test both on your system with a sample before using on live instrument channels with complicated MIDI parts.
@@kdcyp Thank you. I think i noticed this once maybe twice. 🤔
Hi, thanks to share all your tips ! It really helps =) I aslo could add on tips this one: Removing Unused Clips from the "Pool", i think sometimes my project is more heavy and consuming more CPU with more performance , so i feel like it help to have a more clean project deleting some clips in the back, and avoid glitching stuff. That is all
It's really quite impressive how CPU-efficient Steinberg's Stock plug-ins are! Thank you for this video, it is helpful.
Glad it was helpful!
Whenever I have a problem that needs to be solved, you have a solution. Thanks, Chris!
you're welcome!
Chris, so much easier watching your videos as opposed to reading the manual. Great stuff and so informative.
Thanks, great tips! Saved my life today, as my mix was being impossible. Increasing buffer size was all it took.
Chris, you saved my session and wallet with the direct offline processing!!! CPU is still pretty high, however, I am notgetting these damn spikes and audio cracks any more! Thanks a lot!!!
These tips were incredibly helpful. Some I knew, some I didn't know. Thank you so much Chris. Your videos are always helpful and intuitive
Happy to help!
00:00 Intro
1:11 Increase audio interface buffer size
4:53 Activate multi processing and ASIO Guard
6:56 Print your VST instruments before starting a mix
7:54 Freezing audio channels
10:47 Don’t mix at a high sample rate
11:22 Remove unused plugins (disable tracks)
12:37 Direct offline processing
14:55 Share reverbs for more than one track
16:00 Mix using group channels
17:37 Print some FX channels
19:05 Work with stock plugins
20:32 Activate high performance (Windows 10 only)
One more tip, if the Cubase "cache" meter is maxing out: Delete all portions of your audio that are silent. Even if there is no audio, the computer is still reading the 0's and 1's and that increases the streaming load. I just was mixing a 126-track song and got terrible dropouts to the point that it was impossible to work. The "cache" meter was maxed out. Then I cut out all the silent portions and immediately the meter dropped down to zero on most of the song and maybe 50% on just a few busy sections.
What a difference this made! TIP: In Cubase, go to Audio/Advanced/Detect Silence to do this automatically.
Do you know if this is the same for audio has been muted by the arrange page mute function?
One of your best videos, I think. Bookmarking this, for sure! Thank you.
This video is just what i needed..Thank you Chris..You have saved the day again.
I allways end up watching your uploads dude, you have some of the best info videos for Cubase!!
Being an old guy, I worked on tape only decades ago. As I progressed to sequencers (the original Cubase!) and on to modern DAWs, I've stuck to an 'traditional' workflow that captures a lot of these tips. Basically, I treat tracking, mixing and mastering as separate tasks for a track and use separate projects for each. So when tracking, the only plugins used are those affecting the 'captured' performance. Commit to the sound as early as you can.
When tracking is done, act as if you were sending the tracks off to another mixing engineer using a different DAW. So basically print everything without any effects that are part of the mixing domain. This means a lot of EQ and compression stuff can be minimized in the tracking stage, which helps minimize CPU load when tracking. It also minimizes CPU load when mixing as you are starting with clean audio tracks.
Similarly, when mixing is complete, print to stereo and start a new project for mastering the track. This is really helpful when mastering an EP or album, for in those cases part of mastering is trying to get a consistent sound across the entire group of tracks...
Thank you! I love how you also show where stuff is in the menus like you did with the performance meter! That stuff can be frustrating sometimes when looking for an answer about something entirely different etc.
Thank you so much for the tips!! was struggling with my computer performance and the last tip it helps me a lot thank you again!!!
I like #7, direct offline processing! Thank you for sharing this knowledge. It will help me.
Glad it was helpful!
agree.. reading the manual has little effect compared to watch good presented Tuts. Thanks again..
Direct Offline Processing: That is exactly what I needed. Thank you!!
Enjoy!
Going to try these tips out later, having issues with mine a the moment. Great tips! Another helpful vid
I suscribed after only 2 vids!!!
Thanks for all that you do!!!
Super helpful!!!
So happy you did, Jeremy...Thanks!
Chris, I personally feel that it is critical to understand the difference between CPU performance and the Cubase internal performance as measured by the the Cubase Performance meter. As you do not distinguish between the two, it is extremely important to understand that CPU performance is not the same as Cubase performance. See the explanation in the following link:
ruclips.net/video/GUsLLEkswzE/видео.html
This is really good stuff. I'm certainly having CPU performance issues where nothing happens on pressing play, and I find myself shutting the song down and opening it, a few times, before it 'recognises' all the recorded stuff and allows me to hear everything, so I'm looking forward to trying a few of these tips. One of the irritating things I have just now is that occasionally - say 1 in 10 times - simply plugging in my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 causes Windows 10 to crash and reboot. The Scarlett is showing up as 3 devices in my devices manager, and I think this may be the problem. Windows thinks I'm plugging in 3 things all at the same time, can't handle it, and crashes. Making music's just not as easy as it should be!
It's like you just lowered my computer's blood pressure. Thank you!
Lol! Awesome!
😊😮 that's really good
Thank you for these great settings to increase the performance of our DAW. You mention the importance of the sample rate, but what is the best sample rate you recommand for the best quality in music production ?
Very, very valuable tips, thank you very much Chris. I had noticed myself that the Cubase Multi Tap Delay can massively increase the average audio load, even if it's on a muted track. The only thing that helps is to turn off the track completely. It took me some time to recognize the cause, because I couldn't believe that a muted track could be responsible for this 👍😎
Been using most of these tips but I learned a bit too. Print fx would be most useful!
Always helps. Thanks Chris.
Dude you just helped SO many people out!!!
This was one of the most useful topics to touch on!!
I'm about to pick up a new pc running 6 core 10th gen i5 with nvme drive system.
I honestly don't expect problems, but boy have I experienced them! I'm gonna make sure I share this with all my buddies!!
Thanks!!
Glad I could help!
Merci Chris. J'ai passé la journée à apprendre des trucs Cubase sur ton channel. Very cool!
Merci Manuel :-)
It's like you know exactly when I need what kind of video... Thank you for all your content!
You are so welcome!
Very informative 🤘🏽👌🏼
Another great Cubase tips... I hope Steinberg pay you royalties !!! If not they should ! I did not search a lot for videos about Cubase but so far you are making the most valuable content I ever seen ! Better than what I could see on Steinberg channel. Generally in audio industry, I feel that companies are more concerned about selling their products (actually its obsessional) so they make poor videos content for support, for learning how to use well their products. When they try this kind of content they are just showing off. It's like the product manager of the videos is always the **** marketing guy...
Thanks for the nice comment! No royalties involved with Steinberg, I choose the make these videos to help people out with music production and Cubase, cause I just love Cubase :-) Don't worry, I have a very good relationship with Steinberg, very nice people working there ;-)
Love your vids Chris.
Under studio setup in Cubase, there's a "Steinberg Audio Power Plan" toggle (I think it's in 10 and up). This is basically like activating "High Performance" power plan in windows, and it'll do it every time Cubase launches. I think it's windows only though.
That aside, great tips!
Yes, It seems to be doing the same as "High Performance" on Windows but for Cubase only. Thanks for mention it! I never payed attention to this one since I'm already using "High Performance" on Win that will also affect my video editing software.
@@mixdownonline No problem thought I'd contribute, cheers !
Very helpful as usual, many thanks Chris.
Happy to help
Hi Chris, you doing a great job. I like your videos very much. Can I have a question.. What processor you have in your PC? Thanks for your answer:)
I have never Used "Disable Track" But This Video Got me To Using it.
Awesome!
Many thanks Chris!
Thank u so much. Didnt know about the buffer size setting. it worked.problem solved.
You're welcome!
great tips Chris! thanks! Cubase is more and more my favorite DAW!! Also thanks to you!
My pleasure!
Awesome tips! Have you done a video on rendering in place??
Love your videos. Always good info. Keep up with good work. From Australia.
Thanks, will do!
19:59 - was that The Dear Hunter? :O
Great Video, thanks for the Tips, will definitely help in future projects
No, that's my latest "inKontrast" single :-)
Concis et efficient! Vous répondez à l'ensemble de cette problématique, j'adore et cela m'aide beaucoup ! Merci Chris.
Bienvenue mon ami!
Really cool tips thanks mate. I read that Cubase sucks because it cannot split the plugins on one track across CPU cores... so loading up one track with plugins will kill performance. Therefore I changed my workflow to split workload with groups and busses. Seems to help.
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Can you do A video on what happens when you ' archive ' something. As in " Where does it go? like what folder? " " how to find where to locate them. " " or how to unarchive " when and where to use it and when NOT to use it. Thank you. Got yourself another subscriber! Great video!!
Great tips! Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Really thanks 🙏 all tips useful I really appreciate your help.🌺
Very useful tips!
Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Another tip would be print specific VST plugins. For example, Neural DSP amp sims are very CPU heavy, especially at high oversampling. Get the tone that fits well in the raw mix, print it down, then start mixing. Another example would be printing your drum samples. They may not take up a lot of room, but every little one adds up. It also helps if you're moving from one computer to another, so you don't lose the sample you just did on Slate Trigger 2.
Great suggestion! I think that to commit to a sound is a good habit to take. Like you, I do this all the time when working with Drum Samples. Thanks
Chris i really appreciate you
Thanks for another great video! Is there a way to freeze / unfreeze multiple tracks at once?
Not that I know of
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Awesome video so helpful I run an older pc ATM and this has helped massive. Thanks again
Glad it helped
Excellent video! I loaded my biggest mix and checked out the meter. I was only at one quarter with sample rate at 512. My processor is an i7 10th generation. It works beautifully all the time. The only thing I hadn't done as far as set up goes was try adjusting the buffer size. I had it down to 32 samples before I saw red lights. Seems to works fine at 64.
Latency down to 2.83ms on input and 2.50 on out.
Any benefits to run it this fast or not run it this fast when mixing?
And, I saw you built an i9 awhile ago.
What sample rate do you have it set up at?
Cheers 🍻
This is such a great video, thank you Chris! Any chance you could do one for production, where you'd use a lot of vsts and for recording? Something like how pop music would be done today, lots of plugins and recording until the very last minute, before the mix stage. Thank you in advance!
That will go aroung the same tips to be honest. It is harder to manage when recording since you need as less latency as possible. So freezing VSTi(s) is pretty handy and also the power of your computer plays a huge role when working with VSTi(s).
@@mixdownonline Makes sense! Thank you for the answer and prompt reply!
Processing precision you have on 64 bit, I am still on 32, do you advise changing up and is it ok mid project? I don't use 32 bit plugs. Great video! I am also maxed out on average audio processing, but except for freezing tracks, I have tried everything on this video. This is a fast i mac too.
it so helpfull dude, thanks a lot
Fantastic tips :)
Glad you like them!
Ha! My PC had switched back to Balanced without my knowing it! Thanks for the tip - since it's a desktop computer, I switched it to High Performance.
You're welcome, bro!
Dear Chris, first time I write a comment (although I liked all billion videos You have made and I have watched - everything you do is just great, even for professionals --- so many great shortcuts and useful tips. I have also one question - I figured how you went on to print Your FX (verb) channel. When I tried to do this and made a Track, I can use DRUM VERB as IN, but just while making track window is opened, but as soon as track is created, I can't see it as INPUT any more. Only INPUTS from my USB device and some Groups, but no FX channel INPUTS... Do You have any idea why? I use Cubase 10.5 on Windows 10.
Hi Chris! Joe here from Rochester, NY. Hope all is well! How do you feel about disabling the interned along with disabling your virus checker while recording or mixing? Do you think these things matter to save computer power also? Just curious on your thoughts about this.
Thank you for this tips!
You're so welcome!
Excellent vid, Chris! Quick question... With freezing audio/vst intrument with channel plugins - does this affect audio quality at all when they're kept frozen during Export/Audio Mixdown? Or is it best to unfreeze before the final mixdown? Thanks!
hey Chris, thanks a lot for your channel - really great info! Super channel!! I recently upgraded to 10.5 and noticing an interesting problem - when a Cubase stock multiband compressor is added as an insert to a audio track (guitar or vox), the track becomes affected by a very significant delay in comparison to the rest of the mix. The delay persists even when the multiband compressor is disabled and only disappears when I remove it from the inserts completely. Is this something common and is there a way around it....? Thanks in advance for your response.
Thank you so much Chris!
My pleasure!
Dope. It's like what i'm asking for. Thanx so much!
Welcome to the hell that is PC recording! :P Looking forward to his tips!
You're welcome!
Great stuff as always Chris. I never thought of printing the FX channels... great tip...
Very helpful! I have a quick question I'm struggling with :/ When I go to audio/bounce selection it said that I don't have enough place on my disk. I did check the right disk with enough space in the open gray box when you start cubase, and my pool is set correctly I think haha. Don't know what to do now. Btw, I live in your City, it's nice to have audio guy near by, thanks for all of your content!
Hey Chris,
After 20 years of using cubase I finally know what the freeze button is for. I dont know if i should feel stupid or lazy
I'm still stuck with the concept. It seems that there are just multiple ways to do the same thing (print process) but with freeze it's just a simple button to turn on and off.
Is freezing same as printing but less hassle to return to edit?
Is freezing the same as offline processing except you can't edit with freezing?
Thanks a lot for your video's!
very useful tips
Thanks a lot
Thanks Chris !!
Any time!
Life saver!!! thanks!
Happy to help!
Hey Chris! I would like to ask you or practitioners here about using disk space as an important resource. When working with Cubase, can you name or describe workflows where it makes sense to use external hard drives, especially NAS drives, on your local network? Or is it excluded in any case?
Dang, i didn’t know that apart from instruments you can also freeze audio channel... only downside is that you cannot any more inserts after the freeze, well you can’t add pre-fader inserts, to be precise.
Would be really usefull for e.g. cpu hungry tape sims, insert them e.g. on all drum tracks, adjust settings, freeze. Then go ahead and add other plugins...that’d be really cool!
Hi!Thanks for the great advice.I have a question for you.When I go to task manager,I see that cubase power usage indicates very high.Is this normal or is there something to do about it?And while I’m at it do you render all tracks to remove all plugins before the final mixdown?And if not do I leave my buffersize at 1024 for this final mixdown?
Am I correct to say that the Option of Printing and XF channel... That on an audio track, under the Input settings, in the inspector menu, the inputs of GROUPS, FX are only for Cubase PRO and not Artist? @ your time-stamp 18:13
Hi. Thanks for your videos. Just a question. My iMac stops recording automaticly, when audio performance clips. How can I resolve this problem. Cubase 11. My old Cubase 8.5 didn't do that.
Hi Chris. Would there be a significant advantage in an 8 core cpu vs a quad core?. Thanks 😊
Good video. However, stock plugins I find is generally low quality, e.g. stock VSTs, so I don't use them. But good video.
Thanks you Chris this is so profound 🙏🙏🙏
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks Chris! I wonder about the advantages or dis-advantages of using render in place instead of freezing files?
Render in Place is like Exporting back in your session, that means that you commit to the fx chain. I use Rendre in Place a lot to bounce MIDI to audio in a project. Freezing is good if you want to keep access to the processing chain of your audio channel. If that's the case, you just unfreeze to get the plugins back.
I allways freeze vst instruments right after selecting the sound I want to use. It lowers cpu processing immediately and I am still flexible adjusting all channel functions. If i want to change the sound, I unfreeze them and immeadiately they're ready to adjust.
Hi Chris, amazing tips, a pair of that will help me a lot. I am using C10 for 2 weeks now and all you videos are amazing. Tip of the day "disable track" ehehehe, didnt know this yet. I would tell you a problem I am having, I thought it was about cpu power, but probably not. Computer is new, very powerful win 10, cpu i9 9900K, 32 gigs ram, so very powerful. Something I never experienced after many years of cubase. I have midi PLAYBACK latency with exsternal instruments, with my hardware synthesizers, connect by USB midiman 8x8 and with my virus TI polar, connected USB. I mean, real time play latency it's perfect, 10ms or less. But when I playback a midi track sent to external synth via usb midi port my system has latency of about 20 ticks. Never seen something like that. I will try some of your advices, but I am afraid that it could be a big problem beetwen windows and cubase. Any idea? I will soon write on steinberg assistance, thx!
Happy you like my videos :-) i9 9900K, 32GRam is what I also have on my side. I don't have any external synth to test this out, so I'm afraid I'm not gonna be able to help you more with this. Let me know if Activating Asio Guard + Low Buffer size helps.
@@mixdownonline I will try as soon as I come back in studio, a couple of days. The kind of test I will do, is try to send a midi track to another virtual instrument but outside cubase. Not exctely a rewire, but similar. I mean I will open for example Kontakt or Arp synth from arturia or anything that has standalone feature, side by side with cubase, and will try to see if Cubase recognize it as another midi external device. Anyway thx for your interest.
Another Windows 10 tip is to use the Workstation edition.
It’s meant for high end PC’s and has an “Ultimate Performance” power plan that optimizes things even more.
Hi Chris...I have a problem i hope you can help me. On Cubase pro 11 my double click on tracks to open editor are working after i double click 6 or 7 times. Specially when i have a normal project open. I tryed several mouses wireless and wired and all the same. i am on PC win 10 Pro with a great 5950x machine. Do you ever encounter this problem, is not just annoying but also time consummig. I end up to press the enter key now to open the midi editor on any track or audio editor because that double click seems to work when it wants. Thank you very much and love your work man. ;)
Thank you, this is a pretty timely video, I was just running into those problems had already addressed a few. Question: on the mixer I can load the latency of each channel, I'm assuming the the higher the latency is a direct relationship with the CPU load? So I start replacing the outboard plugins with on board now that I have the settings. And for the last tip, if you don't see high performance, there's a show additional plans drop down that you have to click to see the high performance option.
1. Yes, exactly...Hungry CPU plugins will add latency.
2. Thanks for the tip :-)
Hi Chris, I m using Cubase pro 10.5 and I m having issues with high avarage audio procecessing while using several plugins on lets tell, no more than 10tracks, buffer size is not to low, the audio scheme is on, everything normal but the avarage level goes high.
The sound card is a focustite saffire pro, so I am in dilemma if is the firewire connection slower than a usb 3.0? Maybe a cpu problem? ( Intel i3 7th gen 3.2ghz)
16gb ram
Or which is your suggestion?
that freezing option is gold!!! thank you so much! :)
I know I should RTFM but yeah... :) I don't
Como siempre tutorial TOP!
Thanks!
Very nice! By the way did you tweak anything on your Thunderbolt Section inside motherboard BIOS ? Like increasing I/O, two port or one ...
The thing is that I can run pretty much stuff while mixing, but when I'm recording, with plugins, at 192 Khz it's a bit hard to not get CPU spikes. Even with an I9-9900k,
Thanks for your videos, they are always very helpfull !
No, I didn't tweak anything in the bios and only record and mix at 96 and 48. I will have to test this out at 192
Mixing at 192 Khz is a total waste of processing power because it doesn't improve the soundquality for rock-, pop- and dance-music in 99 % of the cases. It even can sound worse than lower sample rates due to the noise shaping and quantization of the digital converters. There are some good technical videos who explain the fact in great detail.
@@NikolausBrocke Thanks for your input on this :-)
@@mixdownonline :-)
Man, I have an Issue just with a plugin by Slate Digital, the Virtual Tape machine, It adds alot of latency, how could I fix that? I'd really apreciate your answer, thanks so much for your videos! (Cubase 10.5) windows 10, the problem only happens in Cubase, with Reason it works pretty well
Hi Chris, this was your best potcast :-). And also how to improve the Windows Settings :-) My favorite Problem is currently: How can I define a Kind of filter or whatever to check the mix in Cubase for a sounding like cheap mono Handy Sound (Maybe with mp3 Quality)? It would be good to find in an early production Phase some weak Points. I have tried here some tonebooster Plugin but have not realy find here the perfect solution, so maybe you can give me here a good advice :-)
Happy you liked the video :-) Now, for your question, if I understand, you want to reference your Mixes using a filter or plugin to simulate cheap sound system? If so, there's a plugin called MixChecker that does that kind of stuff shop.audified.com/
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Lol, thanks!