i am sorry for the late response, but wow, thank you everyone for the help. all of your suggestions have definitely helped

Sequencer.pd Hi, I am a pure data novice, I followed a Sound Simulator tutorial and made a 16 step sequencer with three different tracks. I seem to be getting an overwhelming amount of lag, especially when I increase the BPM. I'm wondering if there's optimization techniques that I'm not aware of that I'm not following in this patch or if this is simply too much for Pure Data to handle. I tried increasing delay time, increasing the buffer size, increasing minimum processing power on my laptop, to little avail. I use a Minifuse 2 and have the ASIO selected as my input and output. Thanks in advance.