eddu.. thanks for chiming in...
the reason I keep ranting and raving about firewire is that it just isnt good enough.. as you experience 64 samples is the MAX for drummers..
firewire can go lower than 112 samples... plus it has greater cpu overhead at that latency than pci at 64 sampes... giving poorer timing and more pops and clicks.
People, listen up.. we are trying to save you the headaches that we have gone through with these crappy firewire interfaces. My good friend and I were recently trying to lay down guitar tracks.. he got so fed up with his motu ultralite he wanted to throw it out the window. he could not stay in the pocket without direct monitoring on. this means we could not use guitar rig.. lame!
Firewire is not for audio. sorry, its just not. if you are on a macbook you need the new express card to pcmcia adapters that are about to hit the market.
Cardbus is where its at. period.
Eddu: I too am waiting for the core2duo.. as soon as I have the cash I will be making the jump.. the performance with vista will be spectacular.. imagine doing your entire mixdown with all mastering plugs and convolution reverbs at 64 samples while surfing the net, checking email and whipping out some art in photoshop... huzzah.
vista rc1 is available for public download at:
http://download.windowsvista.com/previe ... wnload.htm
but hurry.. it won't be there forever...[/url]