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When I am playing MOTU symphonic I load up the piano on one track and strings on another track in Sonar.

I am having trouble with pops and clicks. I have played around with the ASIO buffers a lot but can't get much joy. If I put them right up then there's latency.

I took out the conv reverb from MOTU and added it in Sonar with Studioverb2 but same issue.

Is Motu Symphonic so hungry that it causes these pops and clicks or is there something I am missing?
My set up is quite fast,- I have a good cpu with plenty of RAM. OK, my soundcard is not the best but its performed well with other instruments including Ethno..

any ideas?

ps: my cpu is a Intel® Core™ i5-430M Processor 2.26 GHz (2.53 GHz with Turbo Boost Technology), 3MB L3 Cache, 1066MHz DDR3.
Surely MSi is not stretching it that much?

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Sometimes clipping and click-like noises occur when you have your VIs too hot (too loud).

Are you sure your levels are decent at every point?

I have a pretty fast Dual core. My sound card is not the best but its more than adequate, or I guess it should be.

MSI is not supposed to be CPU hungry.
I opened my task manager and saw the load being put on my CPU.
It only got as high as 24%.
I also was only using 1.66Gb of 4GB I have on board.

My HDD wasn't spinning too much, so I am thinking, "is this really an IO bottleneck on my hard drive?"

It's a mystery to me why MSI is popping and clicking the way it is?
I upped the latency to level 9 and the keys are only slightly spongey. The popping is lessened but not eliminated.

MSI is not too loud. I lowered its volume and increased the monitor volume.

Any ideas? Are we at the uncomfortable point of saying "it's your sound card: it's just not good enough?"

Check your buffer settings.

I am using ASIO.
The buffers are locked down to 'fast' 16.5ms
To adjust the latency I have to click on the ASIO Panel button and adjust the latency buffers and scale.
In this ASIO panel the settings are:
Audio buffer size:
[9]
Asio buffer size 720 samples.

thanks,,