Beepster
But I thought you weren't getting those mountains of unwanted splits?
Anyway... Audiosnap used to be next to useless for me in X1-X2. Now in Platinum (since they gave it a bit of an overhaul) it's been working quite well for me. Not perfect but it doesn't choke out my system now nor do I have the problem of transients behaving erraticly.
Also be sure to increase your interface buffers when working with audiosnap. You may want to increase your Read/Write buffers in "Preferences" as well because I believe it's pretty drive intensive. You may have increased your buffers in 8.5 but they got knocked back down to the default "256" setting in SPlat.
Funny thing is I have found the exact opposite is true. In older versions, AudioSnap had some usability issues, but at least it was stable. I found multi-track drum editing easy in those days. In Platinum, I find it bugs out in the strangest ways to the point where I can't predict what the heck it's gonna do next. I have become so frustrated with how unpredictable it is, I have stopped using it, yet I was a heavy user of it in previous versions.
I record all my drums live with 8 tracks as a minimum and I need edits be be phase coherent.
If it's working for you guys, maybe a recent update has fixed it and it's time for me to try again?