Using ASIO freezes SpectraLayers 11.0.30

Using SpectalLayers 11.0.30 Build 387 on Windows 11 / 22H2
Audio-Interface Steinberg UR22 Driver 2.1.5.2 from 01.31.2023
Settings : Mode : Standard / Buffer Size 1024 Samples

When I set the Options > Device Type to ASIO and start Playback SpectaLayers freezes.
Setting Device Type to WASAPI everything is ok.

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I think I recently read Robin with a related solution to this but couldn’t source it.
One very descriptive post about how such situations are generated, is this:

Specifically:
"On PC, however, Microsoft went through several audio systems (MME, DirectX, WDM, WASAPI), all of them were not good enough for professional audio work. Recently Microsoft enhanced WASAPI in a way that it might be ok to use it as the basis of a DAW. However, in order to really get to the level of ASIOs capabilities they had to use the same trick that ASIO uses since the 90’s: they circumnavigate their own audio system. It is called WASAPI Exclusive mode and gives you the same headache that you have now with ASIO.

But - it is possible to write a Windows audio driver for an audio interface that can use ASIO and WDM/WASAPI at the same time. This is what RME does (and I am sure they are not the only ones). Cheap interfaces usually don’t have such quality drivers."

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Really, RME drivers are great…certainly changed my DAW experiences

that said, I am getting better performance with WASAPI drivers with my RME that ASIO in SL11