Videotrack, Tony,
Thank you for trying!

(After all Windows knows what’s best for you.*) LOL!
I believe apple is a stricter nanny smile

Yes, I did ABC's. I run system slim.
Resources do not spike more than 10-18% CPU running at 3.4 Ghz on average, leaving ample headroom. Cooling policies are suppressed. Here is the thing. If I export same 6 tracks + midi and use same plugin in Cakewalk, everything works fine (even if I have 30 tracks running instead of 7) It started to happen when I had some issues with BIAB, and I completely re-installed 2020 (a week ago) + latest patch.

The offset DMA/Latency boxes in BIAB do not interfere with ASIO drivers, correct? I was thinking that something might be ticked (or unticked) in BIAB that is doing this. If it is not that....>

I had a few strange crashes lately and sent report to PG support. If it is not BIAB settings (see photo above), then maybe I should wait until they sort out crash log, perhaps it's all related to one "something".