On 02/12/2007, at 12:26 PM, leonhorrocks wrote: > I am currently looking to upgrade my Digidesign Mbox to 003 or > similar. Wondering if people > are using the 003 with Logic and what their experiences of it are, > and also what firewire/ > portable audio interfaces people are using for live setups. The > main alternative I'm interested > in is the MOTU Ultralite or Traveler. How do people find non- > digidesign interfaces with Mac > OSX upgrades. Digidesign software/hardware is quite easy to break > with system and even > smaller apple updates such as QuickTime (the current version of > QuickTime does not work > well with Digidesigns core audio at present.) > > Finally anyone on Leopard with Logic Pro 8? I am holding off right > now. Leon, there was recently a big thread over on Daw Mac regarding how Digidesign's core audio drivers a quite flawed by comparison to almost any other makers drivers. Two major complaints seem to be poor latency and reduced sound quality! There also seems to be an issue with Mbox that core audio drivers reverse the phase of the outputs. Maybe 003 as well (when running under core audio) The theory is that Digi want to make their devices perform great with Pro Tools but not with any other software. This has been my experience as well. So based on this my initial recommendation if you don't need Pro Tools would be anything but a Digi solution. RME, Apogee or Metric Halo for example. If you do need Pro Tools then get a M-Audio solution OR if you simply need the Pro Tools software without a lot of I/O then get the new Mbox micro or whatever it's called and spend your money on a decent chunk of IO. So I guess the short answer is anything but Digi. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Paul Najar Jaminajar Music Production www.jaminajar.com