I have used both WDM. and ASio, and they work great. I get low latency with both. I use Reaper, Sonar, Multitrackstudios, RB, PTPA, BiaB, and XYZ. they all work very well.

RB is a good little DAW, it is no where as sophisticated as Cubase, or Sonar. It is young! But it does works nice, and you can get it to do a great job. All Daw software needs to advance and grow. A few years back Cakewalk as i mentioned above had a serious motorboating issue. These things take years to become sophisticated. If you read the forums, Logic, Protools, Cubase, Sonar, Reaper, RB, PTPA, Abelton, all have some issues. They all have complaints. In my 15 years of learning this stuff, i have found that 85% of it is user error.

Running windows software on a dual boot system while it is a basically solid setup, it is never going to be as solid as a win only system for PC software. If you are wanting top flight DAW features on a Mac, stay in Logic or Cubase. Use BiaB for the scratch pad.

Why so much complexity in the Windows world? Well think about it, there is 30 times the software, and hardware options. Apple system are all the same part, and have a selected software options list. It is a small percentage of the computer world. Targeted, and expensive. PC are on every desk, table, and counter accross the world, they are made to handle every possible situation. The software vendors never know what hardware and configuration you will have. WDM is a decent driver mode, and can be setup to work very well. I have know users for years that swear by it, getting very low latency.

Your Mac is not optimised to work with windows software, even though you dual boot it. It is optimised to run OS software. So running windows is still going to be a little bit buggy.

HP Win 11 12 gig ram, Mac mini Sonoma with 16 gig of ram, BiaB 2025, Realband, Reaper 7, Harrison Mixbus 9 32c , Melodyne 5 editor, Presonus Audiobox 1818VSL, Presonus control app.