[dwitmer]

Thanks so much to all of you. This is really, really helpful. I'll let you know what I buy for sure!

I won't be up and running for another few weeks... more soon!

by the way... you (spectacle) run Logic... I'm thinking of switching from Digital Performer to Logic... All my friends are going that directions. The thing is, I have a very old MOTU 828 (And a Focusrite ISA 428 with digital expansion card - I use it for conversion and light pipe it thru the Motu 828 - want to replace the Motu but not till I really need to) and I am worried Logic won't have a hardware driver for it.... Do you know if it does?

Have you used Digital Peformer? Is Logic easy enough to navigate? If you know much about the two, I'd love to hear a few pros/cons.

I also qualify for the Logic Pro EDUCATION version... which is only $499 compared to $1000. The guy at the apple store told me it is limited in that it somehow encodes the tracks with "made with education version" code and that if i sell the songs they can track all of that, etc. He said that some students just outright buy the $1000 version to avoid that... but I just can't see how they are different (description on the mac website identical) and feel like maybe this salesman is snowing me a bit...?

thansk again and all the best,
DW