ASIO input – Pipeline output

We currently have the following configuration:

Analog Sound Board –> USB audio encoder –>DS–> Breakaway live –> DS –> Pipeline 1 –> Wirecast on a quad core 6Gb 2.6Ghz Windows 7-64 machine.

We really appreciate the processional quality Breakaway has added to our video recordings and would like to improve them further. We are experiencing variable audio over video delays of 250 to 750ms when examining the encoded output of Wirecast. Our test indicate the main issue is the audio capture process. The other day we made a dozen 3-5 minute recordings and the audio was increasingly delayed for each of the recordings (1st 288ms, the last 750ms). From my reading there are numerous buffers in the windows audio model which add to the delay. Our goal would be to get the audio delay consistent and below the video process delay so we can then set audio delay in Breakaway Live to align with the video. We attempted to do this with a PreSonus FireWire mixer and Breakaway set for ASIO. However when we set Breakaway for ASIO we lose the pipeline to feed audio into Wirecast. We really liked the low noise and low latency of ASIO, but could not configure Breakaway to feed into Wirecast. Question: is there a way to configure Breakaway Live for ASIO input and Pipeline out? Or a way to feed ASIO output into non-ASIO applications and still achieve low latency? Would like to hear from anyone who has worked this or a similar issue.

Thanks,
Reynold