Yes, there is a very noticable improvement in overall performance with s8. Also, the ability to enable or disable drivers without having to restart is great. I've been using wdm on my laptop with the motu 828 and it works great. The advantage of using wdm is that if you want to quickly increase latency when mixing down it is much easier. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Phil Muir To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:37 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Sonar 8 rocks For Audio CPU usage has to be down as I am running with half of the latency that I did in Sonar 7. Regards, Phil Muir P J Muir Productions, Music And Audio Production Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK+44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx URL: www.philmuir.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: D!J!X! To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 12:42 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Sonar 8 rocks For Audio Hello Phil, have you noticed less CPU usage, as they claim, or is it still about the same? D!J!X! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Phil Muir Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 6:55 AM To: Dancing Dots E-mail List Subject: [ddots-l] Sonar 8 rocks For Audio Hi all! Been playing around in Sonar 8 and I must say that it rocks for audio! Being able to see real world values in .VST plug-ins in the track inspector is fantastic. I can now change the routing in the V-64 and see exactly what I am doing! Plus, I have been able to half my audio latency from 5.8MS to 2.9MS, using the WDM drivers on the Tascam FW1884. They really must have recoded Sonar a lot, as I can't run with such low latency in any other version of Sonar but 8. This is all on a core duo 2.13 with Windows XP SP 3. Regards, Phil Muir P J Muir Productions, Music And Audio Production Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK+44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx URL: www.philmuir.com/