Thanks for the sugestions I did a reset and that helped somethings. Before the reset my battery life was barely two hours. After the reset it jumped up to 6 hours! As far as sound cards I was using differert VSTs. I noticed when I disabled the VSTs and just used a midi setup like soundcanvas it got better for a while but then glitched again. I'm gonna check the buffers like you suggested.

Military musician for 20 years playing sax, oboe, and clarinet. Used to gig 6 nights a week traded that in for a day job and gigging on the weekend. I like composing WWQ music. My equipment: i7 16gb laptop. I use BIAB, Reaper, Pro Tools, and Sibelius.