Which Audio Card ? Dual G4, Osx, Tascam Tm-d1000 Options

[makingmusic4him]

I am moving from Windows to MAC (sounds of applause in the back ground).
Have a dual G4, OSX.

No audio cards yet, just 'out of the box' machine.

Have various midi instruments.
Have TASCAM TD-M1000 that can respond to remote midi commands.

Ultimate goal would be to have DP4 or Logic 6 (I currently have Reason 2.5) working with the Tascam mixer, so that midi, live sound and samples can all be mixed together with OS X based DAW.

Any idea on what would be a good PCi audio card for this ?
DP4 or Logic or what ??

Thanks for any ideas,
Bill

[Fusion Head]

One more point about the MOTU 828 MkII - in response to the comment by mOno regarding the mic preamps, the two provided with the MkII version seem to be okay in terms of low noise. However, I would say that in my opinion they are not as "warm" sounding as I would like. I have not read anything about them, and MOTU does hype what kind of preamp circuits it is using ... so I assume these are not "high end" preamps. They are handy to use if you really need them, but for microphone inputs I am using my mixer's preamps (and an outboard preamp) and feeding their outputs to the MOTU line inputs. I am using the two MOTU combo mic/line inputs only as line inputs, to give me a total of 10 simultaneous line inputs.

This post has been edited by Fusion Head: Sun 12 Oct 2003, 18:37