CPU%????????

Yeah, mine gets easily overloaded by some segments in some of the demo songs. Just bump your latency way way high before listening to the demo songs and you'll be okay. Also, take a hard look at the sections that are causing the high utilization and see what effects and synths are running to determine if you would be doing something similar and end up running into it everytime you use the software.

For me I am much less sophisticated in my tracks and I have yet to really do a lot of damage until I load up multiple Dimension and PSYN instances with effects--then it gets a bit high.

A good general rule as one approaches 100% on your CPU is

1)While recording midi or audio, freeze other tracks and use low latency times
2)While editing or mixing, use higher latency times.
3)Use the Aux busses wherever possible. If you have *any* effects that might eventually apply to more than one track, use aux sends.
4)Also, use low-cpu intensive plugins while tracking and 'arranging', and then replace them with your preferred premium plugins while mixing. Especially reverbs.

Hello,

When I'm recording Midi notes from my Trigger Finger controller the cursor gets lagging behind and suddenly jumps back up to the now time, and the highlighted midi track being recorded seems to lag behind as well. Is this normal or is there something I can do to get the now time to scroll smoothly while recording midi. It doesn't seem to be interupting the recording, but it kinda messes me up sometimes with my timming. I would like it to scroll smoothly if possible. Thanks for any help. Had to add, I'm not getting a high CPU load, Only about 20%

See ya, Rockitglider

System Specs:
Dell Inpiron 9200 Laptop
Pentium M series 1.8 gig
1Gig Ram
Mobil Radeon 9700 128Meg Video Card
Edirol PCR-1 Keyboard/Sound Interface USB
M-Audio Trigger Finger Controller USB
M-audio Black Box Sound interface/Amp modeller (not using sound interface), Output into PCR-1 USB
60 Gig Hard Drive 7200RPM
External 80Gig Hard Drive 7200RPM USB