As you can see in the video, starting from this morning my Cubase has these dropouts. Nothing has changed in the setup or even in the project. I’ve been mixing it for the last couple days, and didn’t add any plugins, didn’t add channels, just tweaking what’s already there.

Same thing happens on much lighter projects I have….

OS up to date
Drivers up to date
Firmware up to date

Buffer: 1024
Clock source: Internal

Cubase 14 Pro
Windows 11 home
Asus ProArt px13
RME BabyFace Pro FS

Any ideas?

I had an error in my previous post and had to post it again. Sorry for that:

Hi, I run a fair bit of outboard gear through Cubase's  "External Instruments / External FX" setup, and kept losing track of which device sits on which channel. This is especially an issue, whenever there is some problem with the audio / midi signal of a device. Sure, the information is all in Cubase but that can be tedious to look for, especially when you have lots of stuff in your studio wired directly into Cubase.

So I vibe-coded StudioPatchbay, a small macOS app that reads Cubase own External Plugins.xml and draws your external setup as a patchbay.

• Reads straight from Cubase's  configuration
• You can create your own AD/DA converters / audio interfaces as devices and map them to the (detected) channels which are used by Cubase in your "External Instruments / External FX" setup
• Live: when Cubase writes its prefs, it reloads in well under a second
• Two views: Cards (devices grouped by type) and Patchbay (the full channel grid per converter, OUT row above IN)
• Click any device or channel to trace its full signal flow:  Cubase track → MIDI → device → converter → back in Cubase (this can be very helpful tracking down possible signal issues)
• Auto‑detects any Cubase 12+ installations on your system, so it'll pick up future versions on its own
• Filter/search for any device or by type, format, MIDI assignment etc.

It's free and open source (MIT) and you don't need any kind of account, it has no telemetry or other bulls*it, and there is nothing to buy. Get it from here: github.com/painfilter/StudioPatchbay

• macOS only, 15 Sequoia or later; sorry Windows folks, I have a Windows machine and if there is any interest, I can look if it is possible to port it. Otherwise its open source so somebody else might even do it before me
• Only useful if you actually use External Instruments/External FX
• So far it was only tested on my machine; so there might be still unknown bugs which I'm willing to help you with if I can

It is made for my own studio; figured someone here might get some use out of it.
Keen to hear what's missing!

Hi all, I apologize if this has been answered before but I am tearing my hair out trying to create a basic IV V I (or even just a I maj) in C in Cubase 15. I have project set to C. I have tried creating my own chord pad preset - it creates a Cmin#11. I have enter the score, set it to Piano and manually enter C as the first note, all to no effect. Surely you can create basic tertial harmony in Cubase. What am I doing wrong or is this a bug? Thanks in advance for any help.