Nice job Noel! I've noticed some improvement also.Thank you!

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Any performance improvements can make a difference to latency, since low latency performance is directly a function of how long it takes to process a buffer of audio. i.e. if we improved a section of code that requires it to take less CPU it will potentially improve low latency performance.
 
There were numerous tweaks to the effects processing code in Platinum and some extensive work to reduce dropouts caused by disk access contentions. And we switched to the latest compiler than has some improvements to code optimizations. All these could yield benefits to low latency performance.

 
Noel ...about the disk thing , i have found that inserting a Template of an instruments in X1 is 2 time faster than X3and Platnum ...could you guyz try to give it a look if time allows ...if you find the thing it will certainly help in other areas , i'm pretty usre ;)

What a great answer!!!! Thanks!!!!!
 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
Any performance improvements can make a difference to latency, since low latency performance is directly a function of how long it takes to process a buffer of audio. i.e. if we improved a section of code that requires it to take less CPU it will potentially improve low latency performance.
 
There were numerous tweaks to the effects processing code in Platinum and some extensive work to reduce dropouts caused by disk access contentions. And we switched to the latest compiler than has some improvements to code optimizations. All these could yield benefits to low latency performance.

Latency appears to be better here as well. Another thing that's impressed me is the greatly reduced load time for VSTi instruments and heavily loaded fx chains. Normally this type of speed increase requires a new PC. Good job underneath the hood Cakewalk!

The Platinum coffee mugs are a full 4oz larger than the X3 mugs too!

Thanks Noel, I haven't even tried to see if I could lower my ASIO buffers again yet, because with the latest Sonar X3 if I lowered the buffer size to one step lower, I'll get long audio dropouts ticks and pops; at the next higher setting that I've settled on, I only got short random dropouts in the beginning of some songs. I use 2 Delta 1010LT and Win7 Pro to get 16 channels. So far with Sonar Platinum it hasn't missed a peep, and might sound cleaner? So I knew something was done to the audio method, but I'm kind of baffled why it isn't outlined in the what's new, in which I feel is the most important thing to me; the other stuff is just minor. This is what I've been looking for. Keep up the great work. Been here since Cakewalk DOS.   

Good point richlion.  I thought the same thing.  This is very good news and should be a major promo point about the new product.  Congrats - Cakewalk people - this is quite an achievement - because frankly I though X3e was great in this department, and yet they made it better!!!

These are the kinds of improvements that will get me to upgrade. How about that bug fix list to push me over the edge?

"You have to buy it to find out what it is."  Or something like that.  Sounds familiar - LOL!

deswind
X3e is fabulous so I am not sure it can be beat in this department.  But out of curiosity, is anyone experiencing the ability to lower latency for the same project by going to Platinum?

That is one of the things I noticed right away. I have lower latency with platinum as opposed to X3. I am using the VS-100 as my audio interface. My latency is a little lower now.