CPU overs

[participant]

Sort of a long story... let's see if it can be shortened:

-Mac G4 733 (Graphite)/768MB Ram/Cubase VST 32/5.0...

-Hard Drive crash; recovered most all w/Disk Warrior, but reinstalled Cubase & LM4 drums... songs/projects were OK

-Installed Waves Native Power Pack, UAD-1 Card, & Delta 1010 in a matter of 36 hours...

Problem: In the VST Performance bar, the little red LIGHT at the end... the CPU light... keeps FLASHING every two seconds... when it does this, audio stops completely

Now, it did this at first... after all the stuff was installed... but I thought I had it fixed by increasing memory to Cubase... Now, it gets 495MB! For two days, it operated OK... BUT NOW THE CPU THING IS BACK!!

Yeah, the correct sound card drivers... yeah, they're in the right folder... yeah, I even try this with songs that have only one channel and one WAV file... the performance bar (blue) stays below 10, BUT THE FREAKING RED LIGHT STILL FLASHES!!

Anyone have similar problems? Is this something I'll have to call Steinberg over And I wanted to work on music this weekend


Thanks for any replies

 

[lomky]

This is a very common problem, I think it's a mac thing. Check out cubase.net and do a search. I have the same problem after installing the Delta 1010 on my G4 400. I did many things that the cubase.net guys suggested and the problem seems to be fixed, at least it was yesterday (knock on wood). The main things I did was highly limit my extension set and set TCIP to anything but ethernet. There was one very suspect system Extension that I turned off, but I'm not sure what it was, I'll repost when I get home.

Also cubase.net has a Mac only section which is very cool.

Look at disk cache, should be 512 or less. and also look at ram per track in Cubase.

 

[Oceanside Sound]

You might try turning off effect plugins one by one, while watching the cpu meter, you'll find that some effects eat up a lot of juice.