Panther And Audio Dillema, Software/hardware compatibiity Options

[zemote.com]

Which MOTU (preferably) audio interface is compatible with ProTools 6 and Digital Performer 4 in Panther 10.3.3?
I have an AudioMedia III card but Panther and ProTools don't recognize it, so I have to make a change.
Besides, I have another HD with MacOS 9 and a SampleCell II card.
Will I have to get rid of both (AudioMedia and SampleCell) or is there any possible way to work with both OSs? Or maybe I should go back to Jaguar and keep both? Will it work?
There is a money issue also. Not enough...Only have money to buy a not so expensive audio interface.
Please reply.
Thanks,
zemote

[Dave Bourke]

OS 9 seems silly, because 10x rarely crashes.

jklimeck wrote the above. I recently installed 10.3.3 on my G4 dual 800 and installed GarageBand 1.0.1 two days ago. Since then I've had six Mac freezes and one screen of death.

Despite reading the manual from virtual cover to virtual cover, I'm still unable to get GarageBand to rename a track (I get region rename no matter where I click). Drag-transposing notes in the Track Editor will usually result in a freeze. Playing .aiffs on my internal samples drive in the Preview will also usually freeze the Mac. A GB reinstall solved nothing.

I've repaired permissions until I'm blue in the face (and repaired the boot drive) and nothing changes.

And yet I honestly cannot remember the last time I crashed in DP3.11 in MacOS 9.2.1 - and I use it daily to earn a living.

I realise that I'm not helping zemote here, but based on my experience with 10.3.3 and GB (Apple's *own* sequencer), there is no way I'll be moving my DAW to OS X any time soon.

My 2 cent.