Yes, it has to do with one vocal track that has heavy processing and like 10 FX insert plugins on it. But surprisingly the 5960x could handle that as well as the 10940x.
Without Asio guard Cubase can’t handle the track at all, there are crackles and pops all over. I attached two screenshots that shows that Cubase utilizes all cores. I have to test the system even more. Maybe the clock speed of the cpu will be boosted once the system is really on its limits. So far its on base clock speed at 3,31 GHz.
Still I was expecting more headroom from the get go. My conclusion for next CPU processes like 10nm and 7nm is that it won’t increase the performance significantly for DAWs. Video editing is a different story though.
Some people are also raving about Reaper being able to handle audio tasks better than Cubase. I hope future Cubase version will focus further on performance boosts to utilize more cores and hyperthreading.
