This is one area where PG stuff does not keep up with the 'Big Boys' or even the small boy similarly priced sequencers. Sorry folks. This is a reality I've lived with since about 2005, when I went off of PTPA because I got hooked on live ASIO playthrough with low latency for live playing of softsynths. That was 5 years ago in case you haven't done the math. My drug at the time was CMuzys, which used to come as a freebie DAW on the Computer Music cover CDs. So, it's not that it requires a load of money to get real ASIO usability.

Folks keep saying to switch to MME or WDM, but once you get hooked on live playthrough with ASIO that works, it's really hard to go back to something without that capability.

-Scott