Alex , Noel,
 
I would have actually preferred to reply using responses directly under your quotes, but I can't navigate this new forum software for the life of me, so I'll address you comments as best I can.
 
I have tested all version of Win8 right up to the RTM version of Windows 8, so are you now saying that because Cakewalks results reporting the dual figure % improvement in Windows 8 over Win7 using X1  were on a Release Candidate , they are no longer valid ?
 
Re the test at Gearslutz not being extensive, how so. They are across multiple systems , interfaces and DAW hosts , and showed a wide variable of results depending on the audio interface being used, at all repsctive latencies. They are far more extensive than what you guys have offered up IMO.
 
I voiced my opinion on the Cakewalk benchmark methodologies because its simply impossible to qualify and quantify how the posted results will correlate in working environments. You guys are reporting % impovements via a meter metric that does not IMO have a direct correlation to anything DAW performance wise that I can qualify. I stepped up simply to add some extra resources to the original O.P's testing when he beat me to the punch using my DAWbench sessions . I also couldn't varify his claims of lost performance in Win8, but in the same token , your claims of double digit % improvements also didn't pan out. By me reporting that seems to have ruffled a few feathers , not surprisingly, but I am more than happy to be proven wrong.
 
Unlike your internal meter , my tests can be run across multiple DAW hosts and are in the public domain.
 
Of course you can dismiss them as being irrelevent to Real World, etc , and thats your perogative , but they have proved beneficial for many, and I have found give a good indication of how the respective DAW host scale comparatively , as well as Operating Systems and Hardware.
 
Looking forward to what you report next.
 
Vin Curigliano.

Mystic38

I am convinced you are in "reds under the beds" territory... I suggest you look at this a different way....imagine cakewalk did nothing to test or validate operation of x1 (available at the time) or x2 (in development) and their performance with win8..
 
now imagine the firestorm of anger protest and redicule at cakewalk if there had been issues.......
 
The prior poster is of course 100% correct... cakewalk gains nothing financially by win8 and its release and you can argue every new win os is a major $$ and time pain in test, development and validation...but its their responsibility to ensure it works.

well sometimes it seems to me that cake did nothing to test or validate the operation of x1 or x2 anyway. the gain is a long term one over years of technical support. move more people
to windows 8 by claiming better performance and you will get windows xp users (who are no longer supported iirc) onto the newest os.  the savings there are pretty evident.  the development costs go down exponentially as well... instead of developing for legacy systems you develop for systems going forward which equates in savings in testing and qc (if there was any money spent there to begin with).