Hey Musicullum,
I just had a quick chance to try out the routing and it worked, it solved the delay issue so now i can record and monitor in sync.
One other issue has emerged that i feel is probably easy to solve but now whenever i am NOT recording I cant hear the performer and im not sure what i need to do routing wise to enable this. i can see a signal on the vst connect channel but no other channels will pass sound. and even if i engage the track monitor for the record track it still isn’t getting sound out to my monitors.
Thanks again!