John,

I've been using all sorts of VSTs, B4II, and other softwares live onstage with the laptop as source for years.

When I don't feel like it warrants the hassle of carrying along the E-MU 1616M with its accompanying microdock, pcmcia card and cable, which is most of the time, i've simply used ASIO4ALL, which actually works quite well on that laptop, yielding an easy and glitch free ~6mS.

VST Host performance software is cool. There are others.

~1-2 mS and native drivers is what's interesting to me here. Even the E-MU native ASIO will occasionally throw an audio hiccup when it is set that low.


--Mac