Well I discovered that the popping I was describing was mostly because of the copy protection white noise. So, to eliminate that and get all 24 instances into the same swoosh/silent cycle I saved and reloaded the project fresh, that way I can wait for the swoosh to subside before testing. Eliminates the pop entirely.
When you say is the master mix overloading, are you talking about the volume level on the stereo out master track (probably called something else in Ableton)? I brought the volume down because of course that would be a mess and clipping otherwise.
What is your overall CPU like on each machine when you run these tests? I'm at about 62% with a buffer size of 192 (I could reduce it down quite a bit with larger buffer size).
Also not sure if I mentioned but this is supposed to be a 2.93Ghz processor, I have it clocked to 3.1GHz, in my tests I was getting about a 10 cpu boost in DAW with that and it still runs cool (air cooled) so I just left it there.
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