Wow,I lowerd the buffer size and its takes close to a second for the signal to play back...its like a delay pedal!

I can increase it to where there is almost no latency,but the audio engine drops out a few seconds into recording(program crashes/stops basically).

Should I get a faster computer with more ram e.c.t?Currently ive got 256Mb ram and a 2.8 Ghz cpu.

Also,does it matter that i'm going direct into the sound card and not through a usb/firewire interface box?

even if I play it all in time and stuff,by the end its always almost a beat ahead of my previous track.