manning1,

I'm having a hard time following your post. The chipset issue with IEEE394 devices is not limited to ASIO.

Perhaps I've equated two different things as well; but here IS a reality:

Softsynth playthrough is absolutely here to stay and it becomes more and more of a necessity. You say that I hammer on about this, while at the same time you hammer on and on that you see other people loading up tracks with plugins. Definitely not what I'm talking about.

I'll talk about a single instance of a single soft-synth. Just one. If PG can make that work reliably, then problems like Dan's go away. When I got soft synth playthrough working back about 2004/2005 with CMuzys, it was with ASIO, NOT WDM or MME drivers. If you've ever used any of GSi's physically modeled soft synths of old-school electromechanical keyboards, you will not go back. You know that you need the live feel to get the grunt from the electric pianos and such.

Many people chime in and say that you have to pay more to get that capability and crow to keep costs low with PG stuff. I'm here to testify that isn't the case - it can be had for free with other DAW software that is freeware. It isn't a matter of how much you pay. Many people here buy the yearly $19 or $29 updates. They've spent well over what I've spent on DAW software over the years.

-Scott

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