That is what i have been doing to get around the synth issues.
As far as the ASIO i am using the M-Audio driver i have had for every, and i have tried MME as well and both are doing this skipping halting thing. I also added a gig of ram, so that the unit has 2 gigs not on a AMD 2400+ XP machine with no internet or anything else.


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.