Hi Frank,
haven't worked out how to run it on one processor, but I'm down to 2.9 ms by adding my old usb audiophile sound card.

I bought it a couple of years back for my original Dell laptop, problem was, I was I couldn't get below 5.8ms with it, wheras with ASIO4All & the internal card, I could get down to 1.4 ms. So I just put it away.

Thanks to Fran & his post on MAudio controllers, I discovered that they brought out a new driver last month for the Audiophile soundcard, so I got it back out & tried it with my new Dell.
2.9 ms ( asio)without a glitch using forte/livesynth pro/ soundfonts
5.8 ms using wdm drivers.

I'll have to dump asio4all on the new dell laptop, as the best I could get was 11 ms.

I have a feeling that high definition audio soundcard & the Creative Soundfont software installed in my new Dell, could be the culprit for the latency problems using asio4all?
As soon as I plugin the Audiophile usb soundcard, the Creative Soundfont player gets switched off, & I can't load a soundfont, as soon as I unplug, it goes back to normal & the onboard soundfonts get loaded.

It's great, I can use either setup, when I need to be totally portable, I just use the creative soundfont player, when I connect to the piano, I'll use the audiophile soundcard.

Trident, sounds like you were correct that my new dell shouldn't be slower than my old dell.

best wishes
Rikki

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Frank L. Rosenthal:
[B]Rikki, it might be worth a try to operate your new laptop with just one processor.