this method is good if you don’t need to record as audio. And quite often when e-drums are concerned you don’t as midi data is so much more flexible for editing. The problem comes when you need to record audio like vox and guitars and you need to create latency free foldback. Nowadays many setups will let you go to so small buffers that latency is not an issue but not all systems are equal. Possibility to use true hw monitoring when needed is nice. Br, braunie