Freeze Synth Troubles... Please Help.

Chad..... welcome... glad you're likeing  MC6 and CSC. Cool stuff for sure. 

 
First... you did not mention what soundcard you are using and what driver mode is running it.

I'm guessing it's a factory card and MME.... which would explain the high CPU & memory numbers as well as the out of sync notes. 

Factory cards generally have high latency and the CPU and memory numbers will suffer. 

You might wish to try getting a free copy of ASIO4ALL and load it up and see if that makes any difference. Some tell me it does make a big difference. 

Ultimately, a better USB external music interface running real ASIO drivers is the best option. 

for now...try A4A and see if it works for you.

Did that, the ASIO4ALL works very well. Though I had to increase the latency to about 120 just to get it to stop crackling. But yeah, that solves my issues, now to go rerender every project I've done in the last year.

It's never been a serious issue, just one that's slightly irritated me, despite my other musician friends saying that they can't notice. Today I worked on something that I really couldn't take it anymore. It was slow piano eighths and it was really obvious. I used to be able to work around it, or record live instruments to cover. But this fixes it. So hurray. I don't need a new external interface. (Ok, I really do) but I don't need one today. And that's a lot to me. Thank you for your help.

Kalle makes an interesting point though, if I'm freezing the synth, that wouldn't run to an external interface at all, right? So my problem would persist even with one, right? Or am I way off? Could cakewalk use it to record the synths from Sound Center?

My CPU never peaks above 77% and my Memory stays at about 55%.

 
Those are extremely high numbers. I don't recall ever going above ~ 46% CPU, and memory usage is negligible on my modest computer (2.8 processor and 2 GB RAM).
So I tried to stress it today.
I had my keyboard playing through 6 soft synths simultaneously (Triangle II, Square 1, DreamStation DXi, Roland Groove Synth, TTS-1, Proteus VX) while another MIDI track was playing through a 7th (Session Drummer 2).
Never went above 17% and the memory peaked about 2.
Adding Ozone pushed it above 25%.
Could be the sound card.

If you are running on a factory (on the MOBO and some of the aftermarket cards as well ie: Sound Blaster & gaming cards) soundcard, the numbers for the CPU will be much much higher than if you are using a dedicated external interface. 

The internal interface is a bottle neck and it doesn't handle the data MC wants to push through it. For that reason, it will overtax that CPU. The USB based externals running ASIO drivers are like huge pipes that allow all the data through in a timely and efficient manner and as a result the CPU numbers are very low. 

The computer itself also plays a part. My lappy would run a project with my Saffire interface and be around 30% fully loaded..... that same project in my custom desktop tower DAW runs at 15% CPU. 

Proper soundcard will get that number way down. 

On my old lappy, if I loaded a huge project with Ozone and Melodyne, and left them in the mix, it was possible to get up above 65% and somewhere around 80% I would start getting the glitches in sound. Often, that was intentional just to see...... I used bounce to track and other work arounds to get the numbers back below 50% when I saw that happening. 

As a side note..... you should shut off and close all other programs while working in MC.  All the computer's available resources should be open to MC alone.  No word processors, no games, no internet browser. 

A proper sound card will make a huge difference in the CPU numbers as well as the over all performance of MC or any other DAW. 

k

Chadtindale

..... Watching a movie and playing a game. Working on music while catching up on cat videos.....

No wonder you are running such high CPU numbers.....   "catching up on cat videos?"