You know what the lamest thing about this whole issue is that, all Avid would need to do is update the 11r driver to support, ASIO Direct Monitoring, but because they want to FORCE you to buy pro-drools, they wont do it. It 's already there, pro-tools shuts off the dry input automatically, I have complained many, many times and either people don't get it, or Avid just does not care. It would be really easy to update the firmware to accommodate a few user ir slots too and the Eleven rack would sell like hot cakes and still compete, but they are too stupid to acknowledge these facts. Rant over. Have Fun, the 11r still smokes anything other than the axe, IMO.