FlexASIO VS FlexASIO_GUI

I had a similar issue with my setup, I suggest using FLEXASIO. Youll need to download flexasio and the gui component to use it. https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO

The problem I have with FlexASIO is that it only supports having 1 input while the katana requires multiple. See: https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO/issues/147

The UMC-22 has a budget Midas-type pre-amp which is hard to beat under $200. That said, the UMC-22 also has terrible ASIO4ALL based drivers which can partially be worked around by using something like FlexASIO. Ultimately though, the drivers won't matter unless you are using heavier VST plugins for your voice/audio input.

FlexASIO allows none exclusive mode but it does it in a different way to regular ASIO drivers. You will have to give it a try to see if it can provide a latency that is acceptable. It is meant to work with more hardware than regular ASIO drivers. I suspect that latency might be compromised somewhat but give it a try to see if it works okay for you. It does explain how it works compared to other ASIO drivers on the github page.

FlexASIO

https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO/releases

FlexASIO is the modern and IMO better alternative to ASIO4ALL, just sayin.

You could try https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO It's a universal asio driver that allows non-exclusive mode

flex asio - https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO/tree/flexasio-1.9 and https://github.com/flipswitchingmonkey/FlexASIO_GUI

- can be used with flexasio gui to make setup really easy instead of manually configuring a config file

flex asio - https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO/tree/flexasio-1.9 and https://github.com/flipswitchingmonkey/FlexASIO_GUI

Yeah, this might have to do with a driver opening a stream in exclusive mode. FlexASIO circumvents these problems. I recommend it and this helpful GUI for configuring it.

Don’t forget to use this to configure it.

if you use asio4all there is no way to have audio outside of the DAW. Try FlexASIO, it is made specifically so you don't have this problem, super useful. You could install the gui as well because it doesnt have any gui by its self.

The FlexASIOGUI page says you need the framework installed and provides the link: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/6.0

btw, someone has made a gui for this and its made asio4all completely useless for me, just using flex now.

So you can check out ASIO4ALL (they have been updating it recently) or FlexASIO https://github.com/dechamps/FlexASIO (you'll need to install a GUI https://github.com/flipswitchingmonkey/FlexASIO_GUI ) and see if you can do the desired routing there.