What am I doing wrong? or am I just expecting 2 much?

Guitarhacker


You can easily reduce the number of tracks. For example, if you have one guitar spread over 3 tracks with snippits in each track, you can drag the snippits into one track and delete the other extra tracks. Right click the clip, scroll down to clip properties, note the starting point, and after the drag/paste fix the starting point of the clip.

Kalle Rantaaho


20 tracks of audio should be a piece of cake to your PC. The amount of tracks can not have anything to do with your actual problem. Trying with bigger buffers doesn't automatically increase your latency, does it??. If the audio buffers are close to minimum I'd test with bigger ones - unless you've done it already without success.
 
 
1. this is what I was thinikng
2. yes increasing my buffer size even by one click to the right (larger) will dramatically increase my latency....in oreder to record an audio channel I have to push it all the way to the left (smaller) . Once done then I will have to return it to a couple of clicks to the right to carry on with the project
 

Do you have this "vinyl-crackling" in all your projects or only this one?
Is it constant or does it vary with the amount of audio activity or somehow?
Actually, reading your description, I can't think of anything else than buffers/latency settings, but your gear is surely capable of flawless performance with a project like you described.
 
 
No .... the vinyl cracking just started with this project....and I have not changed any settings.......although in the last project a new midi issue started up....as I record midi data Two CC controler lanes appear.....one for velocity (which would be normal) but then a second one (#23 If i remember correctly). I do not know why this just started happening and I cannot get rid of it.....I will take my eraser and erase the data and then delet the lane (use of the minus sign in the controler box on the left) but when I hit record to do more data input it's right back.......Aarrrgggg!
 
Is it consistant or vary.....well I can get a couple of instances up with out too much trouble but by the time I have 5 instances (either 5 tracks in a multi timbral situation or 5 simple instrument tracks) I am at the 40 to 50% CPU usage mark and the crackle will make it's apperance..
 

Is Kore2 your standard tool and does it work normally without disturbances?
I don't own it so I have no idea of its "weight" and possible weak points. Obviously it's a heavy VST while my PC, weaker than yours, runs 30-35 tracks (50/50 midi and audio) with Kontakt, Addictive Drums, Manybass etc. with about 40-50% CPU load. 
I'm at work so I can't check my buffers and other settings to compare.
 
Is Kore2 my standard tool? Well yes  plus SD2 (big time)  / EZ Drummer / I do have Komplet 7 and I use thoese plugs a lot / Rapture / Dim Pro / GPO Aria Player.....I think that these are my biggest ones....but this is the first project that it has really became an issue....my last project went fine I had about about 35 tracks with several of these plugs and did not have an issue..... (Check the colab I did with Philip on big Blue Sky.....I know he stated that we used a lot of loops but I used all plugs self played  midi data etc and One measure of one loop and had no issuesIn fact this project started with a multi timbral instance of Kore2....and I ran 5 out of 8 tracks there)
 
AFAIU, you should be able to run the kind of big projects you mention (with the help of some freezing etc) with your PC.
 
 
To the answer above.....I did do some freezing cause when I latency noticed while trying to lay down vox....

Could any of the "normal" small stuff that sometimes cause trouble be in the picture: Disabling 64 bit-engine (if haven't already), check that X-ray function is disabled?
 
 
I have not tried this so I will look into it.............thanks ....great idea...
 

Just throwing in what comes to mind...

I am so frustrated with my DAW at present that I am really thinking of building a new one....