Hmmm.. done everything by the book, but things still aren't to rosey. Cubase SX: 96khz, 24bit - Can run 1 Waves Rverb on an empty project before it stutters! madness! Midi not work in SX... Fruity seems to be *OK* (when in 44khz 16bit) but bearing in mind this is a fairly good system, the performance is pretty slow.

Maybe there's a clash with the compnents i got or I've missed something blatant in the manual i've missed

Might have to be crossing M-Audio off my christmas card list!