Suggest A Good Usb/fw Interface, Help beginners find affordable quality Options

[OneDerBoy]

One and all: Give your suggestions for a good quality, affordable interface for the beginners of the world.

I'm new to comuter based music production and I plan to run Logic Express 7 on a new iBook w/ 768mb of Ram. I need recommendations on audio interfaces with at least two input channels, including a good mic input as vocals will be a priority, hopefully under $500. This set up is to be used for demo song/sellable cd production; the focus however is to produce usable tracks for later studio additions. All suggestions are apreciated. Thank you.

This post has been edited by OneDerBoy: Fri 15 Jul 2005, 22:06

[muzza]

Thanks for your input guys. I'll be pretty basic for the first few months (years??? ). I doubt that I'll be using too many plugins initially. Just acoustic guitar, bass, harmonica and some drum loops or drum midi.

I really want to use it as a jammin' partner, as I'm finding it difficult to find guitarists/musicians of a similar ability and similar musical taste to myself (southern rock - too good to play with beginners, not good enough to play with pro's. Well and truly stuck on the intermediate plateau!)

Sounds sad, eh?

Muz (aka; johnnynomates)