Hi Thurisaz,
Thanks for confirming this. When you said that you had no dropouts on your system, I thought you may have found the perfect setup for Cubase. As a long time user of Cubase I had become accustomed to the dropouts, but when you use other DAWs and you can load things without any dropout, this behavior becomes harder to ignore. Personally, I am not a composer and produce and record mainly electronic music (pop, r&b and hip-hop) and singer-songwriter stuff (vocals & guitar) so my workflow probably differs quite a bit from yours. I am not not writing scores and using notation like you are. My workflow is a lot less structured and involves a trial and error (throw some things against the wall and see what sticks) approach. A start stop start again workflow would be a total vibe killer for me, but I can see why gap-less playback wouldn’t be a huge priority for you.
Best of luck to you also and thanks again for your suggestions!
Quinn