
Presumably the 'soundcard' is actually a chip on the motherboard, but I am not 100% on that. I know there are external dedicated external soundcards you can use via USB, but I dont have many ports (I already have to disconnect my mouse in order to connect my Presonus Audiobox, the MIDI keyboard and the external disk which houses my data. It is a pretty decent laptop though, so I am a bit skeptical that it would not have the ability natively to play drum beats without a lag. The better way to use EZD is stay within the DAW host Cubase. In fact, standalone is really an add-on option to allow you to explore EZD without having to open the DAW. Open EZD from within Cubase, drag your groove files into the drum track and use the Cubase midi editor. No need to export as a midi file, just keep it all within your project in Cubase. The realtek device is the onboard soundcard.

Notoriously slow and causes the lag you are experiencing. It's not so much the processing power of your laptop as it is the soundcard and the windows audio drivers. The presonus should afford better performance and ideally, you should not notice any lag.

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In Cubase, be sure to select the ASIO driver for the presonus. If it isn't available in Cubase, you need to load the driver. If you gotta unplug stuff to use the presonus, then that's what you should do. You don't need the external drive if you configure Cubase properly. To get around the external drive, set up cubase to stream your audio to your C: drive.

Keep it on the c drive until you are done with the project. nothing worse that learning all this at once lol Then you can move the whole project over the external drive.In ezdrummer 2 you can save the setting and kits and open them up again, but yea a pita, but at least i am getting familiar with vst's so that when i do finally buy a module worthy to load them in i will be familiar. What sucks is i need to buy many exz's to find some of the sound instrument i am looking for, metal machine is great for the drums but hate the ride cymbal, Steven slate had some killer sounding snare's exc.
