Quote Originally Posted by BombJack
Of course I can nova, but that's not what I want to do...
I don't actually have that many synths on the go in my recent track, just one instance of Motu Mach 5. I do however have a good few fx on the go, but these you cannot freeze as far as I know - it's only VSTis that you can freeze.

Back to my real issue - The MAudio manual says that I should be able to change the buffer size, but for some reason it won't let me. Does cubase lock the available buffer sizes? Does ableton do the same thing hence why I can't move it in both apps?


Thoughts???

Cheers

BombJack
[edit: just saw the m-audio question answered]
As for your CPU spikes, when did you get the P4 chip? Were you using the same hardware setup on a different mobo/cpu at one point? I use Sonar, not Cubase, and upgraded from an AMD Chip to a P4 3.2. I was actually getting more sound rops from CPU spikes with the new P4 CPU than I did with the AMD chip. Then, I found out there was a checkbox I needed to hit in the preferences to enable hyperthreading. Since doing that, I get much better CPU usage with VSTis than I ever did with the AMD. I just never thought to check the preferences to see if such an option existed.