>A lot of soundcards these days have what is called as "hardware >through," where the signal goes in the card and back out without going >through the CPU for processing (Sonorus, DSP Factory, plus others). >Sure, this has low latency. Well, that's exactly what I want. So I guess the answer to my original question is "yes". >I just don't get these "Why is Pro Tools so expensive?" and >"Why can't I do this with a $1000 card?" questions. That's because you keep misreading people's posts. I don't expect a $1000 card to do everything protools does. I have a reasonable number of specific expectations, and it sounds like they are most (if not all) possible. Just because YOUR needs exceed what is possible in a native system doesn't mean that there are others who can accomplish everything they need to with a native system. When you can get >the functionality of a console + multi-track out of a host-based system, >then you can start asking those aforementioned questions about Pro >Tools' cost-effectiveness. > >> Um, that's nice. But not what I was concerned about...I was asking about >> latency. > >Latency isn't half the problem of a host-based system....it's not even 1/10th. I'm trying to discuss a specific aspect of something and I guess you can't find enough bad things to say about it, so you need to keep bringing in other complaints that aren't relevant to me. Sure there are problems in host-based systems, but there are also problems with dsp-based systems. And depending what the user's needs are, the problems may be unworkable, or they may be irrelavent. Mike _________ Mike Connelly, Sound Designer mpc@... / http://www.mcs.net/~mpc/ Check out zzounds music: http://www.zzounds.com/index.music?f!69