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this is cool but its not meaningful when you dont say your latency stats. 140 tracks with no crackling with how many ms round trip latency?

lol yeah jester im well aware my computer sucks. I have been making music on it and ableton for six years though. I always buy other hardware cuz frankly ive seen people on the internet with very nice comouters with ssds and i7s and babyfaces still having trouble running ableton. For what its worth ...

So I moved my User Library, temp files, and cache to my external drive thats a sshd connected through usb 3. It seems better but I still get some pops with a 128 buffer. Also freezing tracks doesnt make things better or worse any more. Do you mean it doesnt make sense that I have such low cpu usage ...

Well I do have 5400 rpm hard drives but no the D is not lightong up. The only thing different ive been doing lately is playing 6-8 audio clips at the same time. Ive taken all software instruments and effects out so the ram its using is way down but i still get pops just from 6 short audio loops ...

I am forever trying to make the perfect set so i can make beats/record live jams
with some software instruments and live instruments with latency kept under 10ms.
Every time I think I figured it out, i start getting the latency pops again....my
computer is rather old but its just frustrating when ...