>If I try to load say a drawmer comp I get the -7204 error. Looking in >allocator I see that 2 dsp are basically full but 2 others are only 33% >full. Is there something I'm missing! The idea of calling the a card >a "mix" card seems a little >odd. Is it because some plugin's like to share and others don't? yes this is the case... sorry mish, but that is one of the caveats of tdm- you will be able to run multiple instanciations of some plugins - ie on my hd rig I can get about 12 ac1's on a chip, but if you use a new plug it goes to a new chip. the exception to this is waves waveshell (one of the reasons i think that waves are so popular) > If so is there some special dance I have to do to get the plugin's i want >to use on a track to load? with mix, not sure cas I am HD- but with HD I live with it, use waves whereI can and bounce or use native when I can. James Richmond