I had 25 tracks of various soft synths with lots of effects, UA stuff you name it, several audio tracks...all four cores of the cpu were chugging along, only half my RAM was used, I had very little latency. I use an RME PCI card to ADAT. Everything was great I added a vocal track..smooth. I was amazed. Then final edit, I added melodyne to the vocal track and boom, SPLAT crashed. Is it better to do melodyne editing earlier in the chain of events?