What sound card are you using and with what drivers ?? It maybe that you have the latency set to low (found under options, audio settings or something ??) The latency you can use depends on many factors such as RAM and the type of sound card. It seems you have enough ram so maybe its your card (or the drivers) firstly try increasing the buffer size as described above and see if that works Another thing is how many plugins are you using at once, I have absynth and it is fairly taxing on the system. How many effects and audio channels are you driving ??? More info and it will be easier to help :) TJ -----Original Message----- From: Giles Fearn [mailto:Giles@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 20 February 2003 09:55 To: 'fruityloops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [fruityloops] intro and help please Hi my name is Giles, I have been using Fruityloops for about six months and i have to say it one hell of a peice of software. I like to create anything from deep house to breakbeat and d&b. I Have recently bought a few vst plug-ins including absynth and atmosphere both of which are perfect for my taste in house music, the problem is my CPU is shooting through the roof and jaming the whole program up. I have a highish spec Dell Dimension pc with 2ghz pentium 3, 512 ram and 80 gig harddrive so this should be able to cope with all the software. Can anyone offer any suggestions on how to improve this. by the way i am not very computer literate so go easy on the jargon. thanks giles