Well, I have my doubts in this point because you said that Encore is a notator software. I know that Cakewalk is a studio software so, for me it seems to be locical that they are NOT using the same interfaces/routines. I didn't mean anything like USB, midi or other hardware interfaces - I was talking about software interfaces.

Those interfaces are also known as drivers (for example .dll files in Windows), modules or subroutines. They are coming with the OS or in many cases with the software developers of the many programs on market. These drivers provide the ability that a program can communicate with the hardware. And the CPU is a part of the hardware.

There will be another possibility: You could have a virus on your system which is linked to this program. I don't know if anyone remembers the link viruses in earlier days.

Like others said here it's really unusual for a notator program to use so much CPU power. Informing the developers is a really good idea because those reflections will give them the chance to solve the problem IF IT WAS created by them.

...et cetero censeo, microsoftem esse delendam...

[This message has been edited by Sheriff (edited 06-02-2005).]