Right sounds like you got it working. One thing you may find is that likely you will use esx instruments on the DTDM tracks only. The reason for this is that with a MIX system with 32 tracks and ESB enabled you will have probably have used 1/2 the chips on your card, as ESB is a direct connect style TDM plug in. I haven¹t even touched the ESX TDM as likely it uses a chip per instance, but the way you describe connecting it is correct and yes it does use DAE resources. Generally I use the DAE aux inputs from DTDM as buses and categorize instruments to various busses, eg drum kit, synths, strings etc. The logic plug ins especially EQ and compression are very good, on par with the waves renaissance plugs. If you need to effect an instrument with TDM or burn an instrument to a track, solo the desired track and the instrument (cmd>click your busses so that they play when something is soloed) and either set the tracks input to the esb input of the aux (I don¹t recall if this is possible as I use a second interface-motu 828 mkII to buss coreaudio into dae via the Digi adat bridge) or set the auxes output to a buss pair and the tracks input to that buss pair. If you are not hearing anything through the track you need to enable auto input monitoring. You will find if you are exporting audio files to protools, regions recorded in logic will have the preroll you selected rounded to the nearest bar. To see this record some audio and then drag the beginning of the region backwards in the timeline. If say you started your recording at bar 4 beat 3, the region will likely start at bar 3, if you started it ay bar 5, likely the region will extend to bar 3. I haven¹t figured the delineation of when it rounds up or down but it is strange. Notice this and create a work method that enables easy assembly in ptools. Also In my experience panther mysteriously does not support 48k sample rate with Logic/PT and the DTDM/coreaudio aspect will shut down. And if you need to punch in Logic does not seem to support preroll monitoring once the track is rolling. Generally I clip the audio where it needs punching in and then record enable a second track and then drag the two together afterwards. Another thing the DIGI coreaudio driver in PT 6.4 is pretty well known to not only stink but create instability across the board. Best bet is to delete it entirely. I mentioned in a note to another member yesterday that displaying all of your auxes, bussing of instruments and DTDM tracks and enabling the link button in both windows will enable the mix and arrange windows to follow each other, also in the top right of the arrange window choose ³smart² for grid resolution and ³no overlap². When you get your basic setup sussed out save it as ³autoload² and place it in the home>application support>Logic>audio templates folder. Now when you start logic it will load this template and for reasons unknown Logic will behave more stable and less erratically than if say you saved the session as a stationary pad or just opened it and saved a copy as...² You can make different templates and place them in the folder naming them like Techno template, Orchestral Template etc. Then if you use the New Project command under the file menu you can select which template and logic will generate all the necessary sub folders (audio etc) for you automatically as we have come to expect in PT. Hit Save. Hit it a lot. Logic as you probably have noticed takes a few seconds to save a session. It does not have near the stability of protools, especially running ESB (coreaudio with a second non digi interface is better< but still less stable than Pt alone), and the session backup function is not a say, save every ten minutes function as in PT. I think it makes a duplicate every time YOU save. Likely to protect against a corrupted file, not to retrieve changes lost in a crash, So save save save. If you have not already be sure you have a separate hard drive for your Boot drive/OS, Audio Files/Sessions, and samples/apple loops/REX files/Instruments, and if you run video a separate drive for that. I think your g4 will hold 4 drives internally which is the best bet. Good luck! MATT --