Woah. No need to be so defensive.

Try this:

Control + Shift + Escape (brings up task manager)

Right click on explorer.exe and click "end process tree"

Now create a new process, (Cubase SX3 obviously, but don't start explorer again)

Nothing else will be running in the background, just Cubase, ASIO, and z3ta.

Give that a shot.

Also, make doubly sure your CPU and GPU is getting adequately cooled.

Other thoughts:

Do you use wireless Ethernet drivers? If so... DISABLE them while doing audio production. That helped me SO MUCH in the past!

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What are your system specs?

Personally I'd contact Nexus. They have excellent customer support.

I am pretty sure you have too small latency on your soundcard, try adjusting it up to 512 or 1024 samples.

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Thanks fellas

System specs are

AMD athlon 64 x2 Dual core 400+ (2.3ghz ish)
2MG DDR2 ram (thought i had more)
EMU 0404 pci sound
Win XP SP3


I do use wireless so will try to turn that off, also my sound cards UI runs in explorer so I cant shut explorer down i dont think.

Subtle I thought that too so i increased my latency buffer to maximum 100ms (its emu) so not in samples and it didnt help in the slightest.

Its more z3ta than Nexus but just generally running loads higher than it used too.

I must mention that before maybe two weeks ago I could load my pc with several vsts and it would be fine. Its a recent problem.

Could it be upgrading to Win XP service pack 3 i have heard of this happening?

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Yeah. We need more details on your system specs AND your audio hardware setup.

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Ok what more would you need about my system and i will give.

Interesting point though I just removed SP3 and its better like quite a bit better its still cpu hungry but now those big patches are hitting 50% and not 100%

Still way more than before but workable now (ish)

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Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

Ugh, I hate windows. Few days ago I was forced to install windows media player 11 in order to use my mp3 player, because windows doesn't know how to deal with MTP devices. DRM crap.

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Lol now my msn messager and some other things are screwed fkin microsoft

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Processing a highly structured and complex pattern of sensory input as a unified percept of "music" is probably one of the most elaborate features of the human brain.....understanding how music is perceived and how it may elicit intense sensations is far from being understood.

Maby you should look into getting a virtual machine. Then the only time you have to use windows is with your audio production. Unelss you are feeling brave and want to use wine/hackintosh. VMs are better than dual boot, because you don't have to reboot to switch the OS.

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totally lost me virtual machine?

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