I have been trying to use Sonar for live soft synth performance and have a lot of latency issues (and yes, I have done everything I know to do to optimize my system and sonar to deal with latency).  I am wondering...
1.  Can MC7 be used in live performance?
2.  Is MC7 less of a resource hog, solving much of the latency problem?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
paul

Welcome to the forum.
The software has very little to do with latency; it's the sound card/audio interface and it's drivers.
What interface are you using and what driver with it? 

Some plug-ins can also contribute to latency problems.
 

Knowing the sound card/interface and drivers being used would help.  99% of latency issues are caused by not having a proper card/driver combo.
 
 
As far as using MC in a live situation, again... it helps to know HOW you want to use it. Are you planning to use it as a backup band playing the tracks while you play acoustic guitar or piano, and sing? Or are you a keyboard player who wants to use the synths in it live on stage with a band of live musicians?

Guitarhacker
Knowing the sound card/interface and drivers being used would help.  99% of latency issues are caused by not having a proper card/driver combo.
 

Probably closer to 50% for the interface and the other 50% by selecting a plugin that looks ahead.  If you are using a good interface with ASIO drivers it should work live.  Try using the 'E' key to temporarily disable plugins to see if your issues are there.  If so, try turning them back on one at a time to find the culprits.
 
Glen

I sincerely appreciate the suggestions for dealing with latency, but what I really want to know is can MC7 be used to play synths live on stage with other musicians, not as a backing track.
 
Thanks again,
 
paul

Yes, but it will perform no better than SONAR. If the problem is latency, the DAW makes little difference.

Thank you, Scook.  That's what I wanted to know.
 
Best,
 
paul

Paul Andres
I sincerely appreciate the suggestions for dealing with latency, but what I really want to know is can MC7 be used to play synths live on stage with other musicians, not as a backing track.
 
Thanks again,
 
paul

Yes it can be used live. However, what I said earlier.... You should have a decent interface which is essentially an external sound card running ASIO and pretty much a dedicated machine..... You don't want to have a bunch of plugins and heavy CPU power sucking things running.  You want to run it lean and mean.  You simply send the audio out of the interface to the sound system or stage amps. Just like you monitor in the studio when you're recording and monitoring it live and send to the headphones and studio reference monitors.
 
The main reason for running lean and mean is having a crash in the studio is a pain. Having a computer crash in the middle of a song is a freaking nightmare.  Nothing would ruin your night and the show like a midi synth that blue screens the computer and at the same time locks up in an audio loop of the last note you played for about 10 seconds.
 
  Run a simple one or two track project and only one synth loaded and running at a time.  You can disable other synths in other tracks and have them in a standby mode..... but don't let them suck the CPU power.  Hopefully there's sufficient time between songs to make the needed changes in samples.  My studio DAW loads samples quickly so that shouldn't be a big problem.