The future of WoA, MIDI 2.0 and ASIO on Windows

[MattiasNYC]

@MarcoE

I went with a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 notebook which is on paper faster than the snapdragon x elite.
However, in real live my benchmarks show that the snapdragons are way faster (60% to snapdragon performance published here in this forum) and the fan is going wild.

A couple of months later, how is the laptop holding up?
Did you get the Vivobook?
And what are you doing on it - VST instruments or recording or mixing?
Buffer size?

[emotive]

@Psychlist1972

We’re focusing on making ASIO performance and experience excellent and at least on par with what folks have on x64 today, but without having to go download a driver from somewhere.

Hi Pete,

So, does this mean that even in-built, or native audio devices will be able to use ASIO in a consistent and reliable way, that is, for basic stereo playback (or recording)?

Cheers

[Psychlist1972]

We’re looking at options for on -board audio. There are a number of chips and configurations to support. I don’t have a timeline for this.

Immediate focus is USB Audio Class 2.

Pete
Microsoft

[MarcoE]

yes, I got the Vivobook (ASUS M5506WA-MA012W,Ryzen AI9 HX370, W15.6" 3K OLED, 32GB, 1TB SSD)
I use it for composing, mixing and mastering with high buffer size (no recording), many VSTi, no large sample libraries instruments. (EDM)
So far it has held up well for me.
see also: Cubase 13 und 14 pro & ASUS Vivobook - #10 by MarcoE

I see around 15-20% better performance compared to my 6 years old i9-9900K.
I expected much more as on paper it has more power then the Snapdragons and benchmarks from forum members show much more performance for the Snapdragons. I have high hopes for this highly integrated platform if the VST vendors play along.

from my last 2 months away from home (I just returned…):

[MattiasNYC]

@MarcoE

I see around 15-20% better performance compared to my 6 years old i9-9900K.
I expected much more as on paper it has more power then the Snapdragons and benchmarks from forum members show much more performance for the Snapdragons.

Thanks.

Yeah I guess I would have expected more performance over the 9900K as well. 6 years is a long time and it has more cores and more threads, though of course the i9 probably got a bit more power to work with.

I’d look into Snapdragons if only iLok and Pro Tools were proven to work on them. I’ll look into the benchmarks here though just in case something shows up soon.