On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 2:35 AM, jim <jim(a)well.com> wrote:
Quick and dirty:
* up the RAM from 8GB to more
* replace the spinning drive with SSD
* other???
As Jeremy said, it seems very odd that a machine with those specs can't
keep up with at least 4 tracks. I'm not sure if it will help, but have you
tried increasing the Ardour recording and/or playback buffers to see if
this has any effect?