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Cubase Track and VST Instrument Garble Fix – Static playback
A common setup with Cubase from 3.0 on is to install Komplete instrument sets and vst plugins. Anyone using this setup will and can experience random garbling of a track, midi instrument, or random effects. This random situation can show up by having a great recording session where everything sounds great and then reopening the project later to find a midi track causing static to the playback.
TLDR
- Remove unneeded tracks
- Remove any effects from tracks not being used or needed
- Unload any VST intruments that are not being used for the current project
- Consolidate tracks if you can
To explain my setup in particular:
AMD 2.6 Quadcore
4 gigs of ram
SATA 300 Baracudas
M-Audio Fast Track Pro
Cubase 5
Acid 6
Komplete 5 and 6
Amplitube – Hendrix, Fender
Voxengo
Antares Vocal FX etc.
Synthology Pianos
What appears to happen is that as you add tracks to Cubase and effects to those tracks, Cubase has to always keep those loaded and ready to go – even if you have them muted or you have the effect on the track turned off.
1 solution is to remove any effects that you don’t need from your various tracks. Also unload any instruments you are not needing for the current project. Finally, consolidate tracks if you can. I was using 4 tracks for one guitar line and working at perfecting that single instrument. Having Guitar Rig running for 4 tracks of the same instrument was causing problems. I moved all the tracks to one and deleted the other tracks and the problem was fixed.
If you have a full powered system and need the tons of tracks and you are using instruments. Look into Cubase VST Link. This can be a little trying to get working, however, the benefit is that you can link additional computers to each other and dedicate, for instance, one computer to only handle you instruments. This second computer does not necessarily have to be a full quadcore etc. Since you are dedicating the machine to one function a powerful single or dual core could many times do the trick.
