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Hullo, OF!

I’ts been a while since I read through these pages … would this happen to be because of ASIO Guard, or is the improvement just built into the innards of version 7 itself?

Asking because I’ll be taking receipt of my new DAW (w/ C7) in the next month or so and trying to get all the ducks in a row beforehand …

Thanks!