Hi Podianer,
It would seem that that the “CPU Spikes” are actually not the CPU spiking but , the possibilty of the Sampleposition counter not being updated correctly on my EMu card. Emu are going to look into it hopefully.
I am not (as far as I can tell) getting any dropped audio, so at the moment, it just appears as though the counter is out of sync.
Technophobia 8)