I and other folks over at the vi-control forum are having some strange random real-time peaks and dropouts by record enabling and playback Vienna Ensemble Pro 6 instrument tracks in new Cubase 10 connected to a slave. The peak meter ranges are going from around 10% to 100%, very unstable, jerking up and down during playback of a very light project, never mind if those tracks have anything to play or not, it peaks as long as they are record enabled.
With VEP buffer set to 2, real-time peak jumps are small enough not to cause the dropouts, but they are there. But as soon as I change the buffer to 1, it starts to jump full scale, from very a minimum (as I have only one track loaded in the project) to a full tilt, totally random. However, there is no such behavior on Cubase 9.5 with either buffer setting.
Loading the same library in VEP locally on the master PC doesn't introduce any problems with C10, only via Ethernet, streaming from a slave. Tried with two different slaves and have the same issue with both.
I lost days troubleshooting to finally go back to Cubase 9.5 as there are no such problems with the previous version.
LatencyMon doesn't show the problem. I tried many things, both vep vst3 and vst2, AG on/off, fresh win install, different video drivers (AMD), pref rebuild (this introduced even more peaks), couldn't find anything locally related to the problem.
Despite an obvious difference in performance between C10 and C9.5, it was sudgested to me to make a thread here as well in case there is something you guys can do.
Thank you.