A:Answer I can't speak for Avid Pro but I do use this same laptop to run Ableton Live Lite 11 to record my electronic drums into. When not using the VST (EZDrummer2), there is hardly any lag but when I'm recording a drum cover using EZD2 VST in Ableton Live 11, I have to turn off any setting (wifi, location, close unnecessary programs that might start up with Windows). If I don't do this, the latency is pretty rough and drumming live into the DAW requires very little latency. It's just good enough for recording what I do but you might want to make sure you get the faster processor version that beats the 1.4ghz this laptop logs at.