Every time someone is configuring their new computer for music recording/production with Cakewalk Sonar, one of the big questions that comes up is which driver mode to use, ASIO or WDM.

I ran couple of searches on the Internet and found the following discussions quite informative:

• ASIO vs WDM – Cakewalk Forums.
• ASIO vs WDM: What's the Latest Opinion? – Cakewalk Forums.
• And, of course, Wikipedia links above.