Thank you for your responses. Other than the midi floorboard that I have for my cybertwin I'm not too familiar with midi nor do I plan to use it much now. However, I was under the impression that PT 7 has improved midi functionality anyway, however my experience is limited. The computer platform I currently have is a relatively new G4 powerbook, my roommate(in the pt class) is workin on building a PC with his student loan money, ( he made a post in the hardware forum looking for advice on a motherboard and such, advice here would also be great). We plan on using the PC for studio purposes and the laptop for live.
Compasspnt, when you said:
"And the first little bit of advice from me would be, whichever soft/harware version you go with, to upgrade the A>D and, if possible monetarily, the D>A."
I'm assuming your talking about the ada8000, and not the yamaha, 1814, or 002 correct? The reason I liked the ada8000 was for the 8in and 8outs, with adat lightpipe for the 01v96, we want to be able to get personal mixes using IEM's when we practice and for live uses. If you have suggestions for an upgrade a>d and/or d>a, I'm all ears. We have about $5000- about $6700 with the student loan for the computer- to spend here. I have the audix fusion drum mic kit, a d-6, two mxl-604 for overheads ( only $160 for the pair and they sound decent), a sm-58, two 57's( guitar amps), and an sm-81 for acoustic stuff, an a decent vocal condenser. Other than that I got $#!+, suggestions for studio monitors would be nice. I hope I'm not asking too much here, but I'd rather ask the experts who I trust then get lied to by some sales person. (this is the only place I know to go to for objective expert adivce) So I guess the question is what would you do if you where in my shoes? If you got any other questions please ask, and thank you, thank you, thank you again.