I was just playing around with Bark of the Dog in the PRO Channel./ It works well for me. When I get stuttering and the sound engine stops I normally find that I pressed the system too much. In the control panel pull up the Performance mod and see if core 1 is High or if it goes into the red when you play. If it does you can go into ASIO and increase the buffer size. I always overload my system. I normally only run required effects while recording with ASIO around 64-92. When I mix, I turn on everything and set ASIO to 4096 because latency doesn't matter when you are only using playback.