scott.
of course softsynth play thru is a reality.
i'm not disputing that mate.
can you provide a link to the softsynths your talking about please ,
so people can test things out ??
perhaps silvertones would be kind enough to test on his rig play thru capability
as asio seems to work well on his rig.

if you remember scott a few years back i stated plug ins would be a problem.
one of the reasons i said that at the time was i felt puter processors were too puny
and not yet powerfull enough those years ago.
to handle the plug in counts that folks wanted to use.
subsequently my own projects (useing plug ins) went from 80 per cent resource useage on an athlon
down to the low 20's when i got a new dual core system a couple of years back.
now of course with i7 processors and their power that stumbling block of puny processors has
been removed now.
i wish you only the best.

silvertones mate.
could you test out real time play thru on your rig please ??
any latency probs etc ??

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