sorry - meant to give specs at end of the post. It's an older system but i really have no problems with it in other DAWs. I don't do huge track counts - maybe 30-40 including busses/sends and mostly audio tracks. I do program my drum parts using SDII or ADII and do keys/synths via MIDI. I try to use CPU-efficient VST and VST-i plugins. SDII is very efficient in Reaper and Reason.

Desktop Computer: AMD FX6200 6-core 3.8GHz / ASRock 970DE3-U3S3 / 16G Ram/ Win7 SP1/ 3 Hard Drives: 7200RPM SATA - 300Gb/500Gb/1Tb
Latest version/update of Studio One 4 Pro

darrenporter1 wrotehard to say anything at all without knowing your system specs, but my latest-gen i5 has no trouble at all with large songs, VSTi's, several instances of CPU-intensive plugins... My system doesn't suck but it's still a long way from being "top of the line."

Well... I'm not surprised you are having issues honestly.

FL Studio has a good guide for choosing a CPU. Obviously it is written from their own DAW's perspective, but it is still good solid advice for any DAW.
https://support.image-line.com/action/k ... se?ans=214

They recommend 7000 as a minimum and well you can see where your CPU is at...
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/In ... /3097vs259

There are things you can do, like printing your drum tracks to audio ASAP but also rather than looking at the CPU meter as a guide for how well you are doing, base it on how often S1 just bogs down and won't play back properly. I tend to notice that my CPU meter hovers around 35% regardless of what is going on in the song. Never really goes above that, never really goes below.

Yeah, the CPU is over six years old but i still get pretty good performance out of it for what i do. I'm planning on doing a new build this year (Intel-based).

Not relying too much on the CPU meter is good advice and i usually don't - i was just surprised to see the huge jump when I inserted SD. I'll have to try Addictive Drums and see how it behaves.

Thanks for the help!

I am new to the PreSonus family. I am a musician. I am using Studio One software and the StudioLive Ar16. Everything is working great, except I can play back my tracks after recording or listen to it when trying record additional tracks. Need help. I am using Windows 10 on a 64 bit system