bitflipper
I stumbled onto this one today, and was impressed by how good it was. It addresses the difference between CPU performance and realtime DAW performance.
It's pretty basic, so don't expect any big secrets to be revealed. However, the guy is a natural teacher and presents the information in such a clear manner that beginners will have no trouble following along. And based on many of the questions posed on these forums, it's a topic that everyone would benefit from understanding.
Bump.
Just ran across this video via another site ... was going to post here until I noticed bitflipper had beat me by 6+ months. The forum search function does work, ha!
This is brilliant!!! And good info for everybody!!! Lots of good explanations accompanied with pictures, while offering a few solutions, too.
Must always keep those audio buffers full ...