First, if you have immediate gigs coming up then by all means render these tracks to MP3 or even wav's if you have the space and just play them.

But the bigger picture is this sounds like a ASIO driver issue. I used to get that kind of thing every time I used ASIO on my old system. Any time people report glitches like this the standard reply was to not use ASIO and switch to the MME drivers. MME has latency but unless you're playing a midi controller live that doesn't matter. All you're doing is playing along so nobody cares if the song starts playing a third of a second after you hit the spacebar.

If this fixes it then later when you have time you can track down what the problem is with your ASIO driver. But, if you not playing any kind of midi controller be it a keyboard, a wind controller or guitar controller you don't need ASIO anyway.

Bob

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