Getting An Ibook! Need Help Choosing Interface!?! Options

[skinnyblackguy]

Hey all, Im so excited that im gonna get an ibook here in a few but I dont want to get overly excited an hesitant & need help finding a great audio interface for me so let me tell u my situation. My buddies & I have a home studio & ill be traveling back & forth now that Ill be starting school in a bit. I want to be flexible enough to do some sessions by myself & not have a problem intergrating with the home setup. Its based around a g4, digi 001 using Pro Tools of course, Logic & DP. Now im very adament about using pro tools for my audio especially for recording my band & have been checking out the Mbox. The focusrite pre amps seem to be a plus! but Ive also been eyeing this M-audio Fire Wire 410 and the fact that it offers a Midi i/o is great too since I do have a triton le and an mpc2000xl that Id like to sync it up with. Someone did also suggest to me just using Pro Tools free....mmm. I dunno, Im just so flustered right now! help

[boze]

=) my best friend and closest emusic collaborator's nick is 'skinnywhitegeek'. you guys should be in a cartoon together!

anyway, yeah the ibooks look great don't they? my gf is about to buy one. unfortunately, i have yet to pull the trigger on a laptop soundcard so i can't recommend one specifically. whatever your choice, you'll want to be certain that folks are having good results running it under panther.

i'm torn because personally i'm ready for the usb soundcards to get the hell out of the way and make room for some more fw offerings. i had been pretty excited by the fw410, but i wish it had more than two ins for that price.

somebody at this thread briefly mentions that they have an ibook and a fw410 running great (which is good news because m-audio is known for problematic drivers and below average tech support): http://www.macmusic.org/agora/forums/?act=...t=9301&lang=EN&

if you're adamant about using PT, then you may as well just stick with digi hw and get the mbox if it's best for your budget. nobody really badmouths the mbox- and in the soundcard world that amounts to a positive review =)