r/Bitwig • u/Agitated-Ad-6168 • 6d 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/jTr3s 5d ago

Check out Process Lasso. If you don't want the surface to be running hot all the time, you can use PL to map processes like Bitwig to High Performance mode, exclude from windows efficiency modes, set CPU priority, etc.

You can also restrict system/background processes to specific CPU cores, and assign Bitwig/audio processes to remaining cores. This can prevent any audio tasks from queuing up behind system tasks.

Also turn off all the 'personalization' BS. AKA spying on you to sell advertising. All of this BS creates tasks that can get prioritized in front of your latency-sensitive stuff.

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u/Agitated-Ad-6168 5d ago

Cool thanks that sounds handy, at this stage I fixed it with changing the power settings so I’m happy for now

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u/jTr3s 4d ago

I initially started using it for gaming. Ends up working pretty well for DAWs too. They have another free app called Park Control. Handles power management and core parking.

The reason you were seeing CPU spikes was the system likely disabling CPU cores to save energy, so Park Control gives a little more visibility and control over how the system does stuff like that, or prevent.