Help!, RME for G4? Options

[nighthaul]

ummm... guess I could use your help here guys...

I'm looking for a soundcard for my G4. I know the RME's sound great but guess the fireface is somewhat expensive for me.
does RME have a card that has both MIDI and audio functions and go along with the G4? (perhaps the DSP series??!)

my other option would be the MOTU traveller, but I kinda lean towards the RME...

by the way, does using an external hard drive works fine with those soundcards?

[lepetitmartien]

If you manage to explain me the RME range, I'm still finding it confusing… this said it's top notch stuff.

The cheaper MOTU alternative to the MOTU Traveller is the 828 MKII.

External hard drives, it depends, if you're using a desktop G4, another big internal or better 2 smaller drives in RAID would be better. If you're using a laptop, you can use a FW interface along the external drive for audio (only solution with an ibook), but the safer way is using a PCMCIA FW interface and hook the drive to it.