Hi Getalife
I added folkfreaks comment to make more obvious whos post I support. 
And yes, we’ll safe a few bucks over this. Since I work with other DAWs and analog, as well, I can sit and wait till this mixer thingy and other beautfully messed-up innovations and changes have been either reverted or improved.
But one thing is quit true: N5 and N6 are very stabil and running well on RME and Win 8.1 64bit OS.
Cheers, Big K