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 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!

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

"Disable track" is what i need for my about 60 instrument tracks big projects! Thank you, Chris, you are the best ✌

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

Chris you’re an absolute master of Cubase love your channel 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

It's really quite impressive how CPU-efficient Steinberg's Stock plug-ins are! Thank you for this video, it is helpful.

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.

Thanks, great tips! Saved my life today, as my mix was being impossible. Increasing buffer size was all it took.

Chris, so much easier watching your videos as opposed to reading the manual. Great stuff and so informative.

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

Whenever I have a problem that needs to be solved, you have a solution. Thanks, Chris!

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...

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.

Going to try these tips out later, having issues with mine a the moment. Great tips! Another helpful vid

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!!!

One of your best videos, I think. Bookmarking this, for sure! Thank you.

I suscribed after only 2 vids!!! Thanks for all that you do!!! Super helpful!!!

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...

I like #7, direct offline processing! Thank you for sharing this knowledge. It will help me.

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!!

Concis et efficient! Vous répondez à l'ensemble de cette problématique, j'adore et cela m'aide beaucoup ! Merci Chris.

Direct Offline Processing: That is exactly what I needed. Thank you!!

Chris i really appreciate you

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agree.. reading the manual has little effect compared to watch good presented Tuts. Thanks again..

Love your vids Chris.

It's like you just lowered my computer's blood pressure. Thank you!

Very informative 🤘🏽👌🏼

Merci Chris. J'ai passé la journée à apprendre des trucs Cubase sur ton channel. Very cool!

I have never Used "Disable Track" But This Video Got me To Using it.

Thank u so much. Didnt know about the buffer size setting. it worked.problem solved.

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 👍😎

great tips Chris! thanks! Cubase is more and more my favorite DAW!! Also thanks to you!

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 ?

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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fbujf6920Nnbqnk.html

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!

Been using most of these tips but I learned a bit too. Print fx would be most useful!

It's like you know exactly when I need what kind of video... Thank you for all your content!

This is awesome advice. I'm doing none of what you suggested so even a few of them should stop Cubase crashing when I have 30 active tracks running and a zillion plug ins etc which is happening on my spanking new super PC. Cheers.

Very helpful! Thanks!

that freezing option is gold!!! thank you so much! :) I know I should RTFM but yeah... :) I don't

Life saver!!! thanks!

it so helpfull dude, thanks a lot

Always helps. Thanks Chris.

Awesome video so helpful I run an older pc ATM and this has helped massive. Thanks again

Thanks Chris for sharing. Very useful.

Many thanks 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!

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!

God bless you

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Very helpful as usual, many thanks Chris.

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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:)

Really thanks 🙏 all tips useful I really appreciate your help.🌺

Love your videos. Always good info. Keep up with good work. From Australia.

Fantastic tips :)

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)

19:59 - was that The Dear Hunter? :O Great Video, thanks for the Tips, will definitely help in future projects

Bro u did my day. Love u.

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.

thanks you.... you are great..

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.

Thank you

Hi Chris, congratulations for your channel... this is not my favourite video... (it is really good, I just already knew the tricks...) but in general you do a very nice job... that´s why: subscribed :)

Thank you so much Chris!

Thanks you Chris this is so profound 🙏🙏🙏

Very useful tips! Thanks!

Thanks Chris !!

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Good video. However, stock plugins I find is generally low quality, e.g. stock VSTs, so I don't use them. But good video.

Dope. It's like what i'm asking for. Thanx so much!

very useful tips

Appreciate it

Thanks for another great video! Is there a way to freeze / unfreeze multiple tracks at once?

Thank you for this tips!

Very useful, thank you!

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!

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.

Como siempre tutorial TOP!

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!

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.

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!

Awesome tips! Have you done a video on rendering in place??

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.

activate steinberg audio power scheme in set up and cpu work with lower latencu 👍

i hope in cubase 11 the performance will be even better

On windows dont miss ton priorizing the bakground task on the advanced setup of your pc !

Gold!

Smart

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!

Can't wait .....

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!