TiBook, REM-Logic or 896-DP, Please Help… Sos (oh no! Not again! ;) Options

[electradise]

I'm just bought my first Ti-book.
Now i need an audio interface & off course a sequencer.
I'm thinking about the:

Motu 896 & DP-3
or
RME Multiface w/ Logic Audio (prob'gold)


What would you choose ?
I also have a P800 desktop so i also could use the RME for that if i buy the pci interface.

Thx for your help

[lepetitmartien]

1/Do you really need 8 pres?

one or 2 good ones separated from the interface won't be up the task (we don't know what you want to record)

2/The cheap upgrade you'll have it wwith the 828 too.

3/the big box, yes a shame it is, but upgrade path are available.

4/latency, a bit long to go all over again on it, there are threads that talk about here. RME has a good reputation, also one of the pros here use one and seem pretty happy with (can't remmember the model though)(but I remember the pro

5/In the big box it's logic silver under its new name (logic audio 5), gold and platinium stay with the metal names.

6/Kontakt; I was at the booth next to NI at Frankfürt Messe, but didn't have time to check (BTW I'm not really in the virtual stuff, I DIG knobs
I'm a small user of DP/UNity DS1, but unity is a bit of obligation with DP, as far as I know there's no other virtual sampler MAS compatible.

BTW be carefull, with OS X coming, a lot of things can change (plug in formats, audio engines…) and we need the releases of the X versions of Logic and DP to know a bit more about. pretty moving stuff.

7/I can't judge VST vs MAS for audio quality. But the fact that MOTU selects the people developing for MAS makes that there are less plugs in MAS, an overall much better quality. I don't say that VST plugs are c…p, just that there are some loads outside.

Also the big names, great quality plugs from TC, DUY etc. are all on each system. So it's not an issue (on samplers it is, DP is a bit alone with Unity or Session)

(now I should go to bed or I'll start to say stupid things again;)