One of the complaints was that we absolutely had to support VST and ASIO for professional acceptance. I had to smile at that one. Yesterday I read a blurb on a soundfonts site, regarding the new ASIO and the incredible < 27 milliseconds latency. I like the VST plugins I've played with, but I prefer < 3 msec. ;)
but ASIO and < 3 msec is possible.
