i just purchased a macbook pro.. and i want to ask two questions to the "logic-family". 1) are the 800 and 400 FW ports on 2 SEPARATE buses? 2) where are people storing their samples as well as audio tracking (playback & recording)... to external drives? if so, what's your config? samples/virtual instruments on the 800 FW port, audio on the 400 FW port (along with your FW interface)? thanks ahead for the assistance. tv http://www.tonyvincent.com

1) They're on the same bus. 2) I plug my audio interface into the firewire 800 bus, and then a firewire 800 Raid array containing samples and recordings into the other firewire 800 port on my audio interface. I've never had any trouble with latency/glitches/pops/clicks. Since it's the same bus, it just doesn't matter. However I've notices some firewire audio interfaces like to be the first on the bus chain. I think the best option however and one that I'm just upgrading to now, is a eSata Express Card and an eSata Hardware RAID array to keep the data i/o seperate from the audio i/o. That being said I'll reiterate the fact that I haven't had any trouble with the existing 1 bus firewire setup despite a lot of suggestions it was less than adequate (and I'm streaming multi-gigabyte single-instruments off the drive without issues.) You can also get a second express card Firewire adapter and gain the second bus if needed.