Ableton Starting to strain

So, I’ve gotten up to the part where you resample one of the drum loops into a new track. When playing back the entire mix i hear the tracks but it is overwhelmed by massive amounts of static and crackling noise…

The CPU meter on Live is pushing between 20-25%… Im assuming im starting to max out the cpu but it is odd because im running an Intel Quad Core Q9650… Could it be the ASIO drivers? Are there any settings you would recommend to remedy this? Thank you… Darth…

What sound card you using? Whats your buffer set at?

a 4 year old Soundblaster card using Creative’s ASIO driver… I will check the buffer setting when i get home… I can use my M-Audio USB interface with the ASIO4All Driver, but then i cant listen to your videos and Ableton at the same time…