Just to let you point and giggle, and maybe to save some newbie a little grief, here's what yours-duh-truly did today:
La-la-la all happy, opened Sonar X3d and instantiated Kontakt 5 for the purpose of auditioning three new sample libraries I bought yesterday (Indie Pop, Acoustic Pop and Acoustic Indie Pop I think are their titles, for those who like details in their stories).
Load up a sample and press down c1 on my keyboard. Uh-oh. Big lag. Big BIG latency, maybe half a second, no matter which sample is called up or which key is depressed (by now,
I am the one who is depressed).
Go through the regular procedures, turn off FX, check buffers, look for solutions online and methodically try each one, pull out hair, etc.
Finally, I realize that when I set up my new make-my-life-sooooooo-much-easier-by-streamlining-my-workflow template, and I included a custom Pro Channel for each track, I inadvertently and inexplicably left 4 modules PER TRACK on. And naturally, they were the energy-suckingest look-aheadingest modules in existence.
D'OH!
You're welcome, or alternatively, I'm sorry.
LJ