I don't know if something happened in the Jamaica Plain update, but my sonar when loading Maschine Mikro started acting up affecting latency and the transport controls in sonar.
However I downloaded Kingston and Wow!......
All my problems had disappeared!
It loads very fast, and when you load a vst it briefly thinks about it then bang! it's there complete with all the outputs if there is any associated with the vst's , This is an amazing turnaround.....
Sonar, i'm impressed! well done.

That's good to hear, my system has been slow to load the last few updates. Looking forward to checking it out. 

Project start times for me are about the same in Kingston. I notice(am I right here?) that rather than see everything set up in front of my eyes when loading a project, it just waits until it is ready (hides the setup) and then reveals all... giving the illusion it's faster. It's certainly better that way but not seeing faster project load times.