Better latency than 1.5 ms?  That is pretty fast.

TPayton

My Frontier Design Tranzport works just fine in Mixcraft. (and W10) In fact, Acoustica specifically mentions support for it in Mixcraft 8. 

Now that is good news! But I didn't think it was ever a DAW issue, rather a Win10 problem. When I first went to 10 I was told by some folks, e.g. fireberd, that it was working for them. Alas, I was never able to cajole or threaten it into compliance. Might have to give it another go.
 
Not today, though. Today I am enjoying my new 34" widescreen monitor that just arrived. Woo hoo! Nearly three-foot wide track views! Still waiting for the dual monitor arm that'll let me mount the old twin 22" monitors above it. Gonna be awesome. If I position it just right, I'll be able to put lyrics up on one of them that'll be visible from the vocal booth.
 
Plus I'm really enjoying SONAR anew with all this screen real estate. Mixcraft looks pretty good on it, too.
 

I beleieve you are somehow not reading your Latency figures corectly. The DAW has nothing to do with this,, Example I have 4 DAWs loaded right now and all of them show the exact same RTL figure. They would have to.  Some just say it differently. 
The RTL figure only changes when you change the buffer in your interfaces conrtol panel. Or is you change to a different clock rate, the higher the clock rate the better the performance. 
You can also ue a utility which always seemed to match Sonars report exactly for most of us.  
http://www.oblique-audio.com/free/rtlutility  
 
But those figures are determined by the Drivers. You'll even get the same readings no matter what the computer specs or OS. The only differance is a underpowered computer won't run smoothly at low buffer settings. 
 
 

I'm in my first half hour with The Mixcraft demo, and I find I can't play any MIDI instrument (so far) because the monitoring latency is too high (so far). I'm hoping I can figure out how to adjust this. I'm using a Scarlett 6i6 and had no problem with latency in SONAR or Studio One.
 
EDIT: It's OK now. Mixcraft defaults to Core Audio (WaveRT) in the interface settings. Changed to ASIO. Much better. I'm not sure this can be my main DAW, but I like to make music videos, so I have to keep it in mind for that.
EDIT #2: I have no problem with how it looks, although I will admit the wood-look side rails on the mixer are pretty cheezy.

I am enjoying the demo, most vst and vsti loaded, was able to record VSTi and waves...straight forward. The sends taken awhile to launch, multiple sends are cool. The interface is different, I like that the scrolling wheel can expand or retract the horizontal, slick. The vertical scrolling of the mixer is easier than Sonar, however, when the Sonars X series came, that graphic docking it was a strong work flow plus, for me 
 
Grouping VST or VSTi taken awhile to grasp ...especially when the list is over 200, UAD throw everything in, I only have a few. I did state I will hold onto Sonar, long time user. I will say compared to studio one, I was up and running easier. Surprisingly some of Mix Craft effects are sweet

So far everything I've tried in Mixcraft has been a breeze. Except one: there seems to be no way to edit multiple MIDI tracks at once. I'm holding out hope that I've just missed something, because that would be a showstopper. If somebody's figure that out, please let me know.
This got my hopes up, but no cigar... 

backwoods
fade ins/outs and clip volume control is not very good in mixcraft compared with sonar

Amen.  Fading clips in Sonar is a big part of my workflow.  Hopefully they'll include it.

bitflipper
So far everything I've tried in Mixcraft has been a breeze. Except one: there seems to be no way to edit multiple MIDI tracks at once. I'm holding out hope that I've just missed something, because that would be a showstopper. If somebody's figure that out, please let me know.
This got my hopes up, but no cigar... 

Yeah, in the video, you'd think if he'd scroll down in the MIDI editor, you'd see the second track's MIDI data...

Remember, Mixcraft doesn't cost $600.

ampfixer
Remember, Mixcraft doesn't cost $600.

No, I get it.  I think it's a pretty snappy little DAW.  Even has those performance pads.