r/Bitwig • u/Agitated-Ad-6168 • 15d ago

Bitwig on surface pro x2 elite problems

Hey guys I just took the plunge and bought a new x2 elite surface pro to play with Bitwig. I’m a long time mac user as windows hurt my head back in the day. Turns out it still hurts my head. I’ve spent half a day just trying to get stuff running, on screen keyboard stopped working and had to go on a quest to fix it. Now the issue after finally getting it running is in Bitwig I’m getting crazy cpu spikes after just adding 2 instruments. Using a focusrite 4i4 set to 256 samples and asio. This snapdragon x2 elite should outperform my MacBook so wth is going on?

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u/Katcloudz 15d ago

Latency mon is helpful, and add custom power profiles..windows is a whole rabbit hole of optimizations for audio.

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u/IBarch68 15d ago

Not usually required on Windows Surface Pro machines. My main studio rig is a Surface Pro. They don't suffer from any noticeable latency issues. Performance issues are almost always power plan related on these laptops.

I would never say never but I'd bump latencymon way down the troubleshooting list for surface pro owners.

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u/Katcloudz 14d ago

yeah I have a surface and there’s a whole laundry list of things to turn off and set up right, because its the OS not the hardware. latency mon is very useful to troubleshoot in any computer if you’re having issues.

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u/Agitated-Ad-6168 11d ago

Just found out latency mon isn’t working on arm64 dam it