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Well I would say that ignorance is bliss! The lesser I have to fiddle around with settings and optimization more time I get to make music. Right now everything is working as expected on mac so all good.

Thanks a lot for replying. All my research pointed to the same direction. Interestingly I want to decide on a new PC, so I went to the store and tried latency mon on multiple high end laptopn 1. Spectre i7 2. Surface pro i5 and the 3. New Dell XPS 13 i7. All of them had high hard faults and some or...

those tools are not for testing your audio latency in a DAW. they test the latency of low-level system calls that interrupt processing. if these interruptions last for too long, then you may get audio processing glitches. if you are not hearing audio glitches then you may not have a problem. howeve...

Hi, I came across several posts where users suggested that Latency mon can be used to identify issues with drivers causing latency problems. I found ACPI.sys and having trying to solve the issue but to no avail. My question here is that is the data reported from these tools really means that there i...

Thanks.

So how seriously do I need to take the latency mon and DPC checker results?

Sure, So I tried to push it. not sure if I am doing something wrong, below are the test results 58 - 72% 48 - 60% 32- 42% 24 - 31% But the tests on Serum remain the same, I can push upto max of 8 tracks only. Also, Latency mon and DPC checker report that my laptop cannot handle realtime audio!! Does...

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter 14% 2) Laptop/Desktop? HP Spectre X360 3) Operating System? Win 10 64 bit 4) Ableton Live version? Live 9.1.7 X64 5) CPU Make, Model, and Speed? Intel Core i7-7500U 2.7 GHz 6) Amount of Ram? 16 GB 7) Soundcard (and driver version if you know it)? Scarlette 2i4, Focusrite AS...