[O'Ryan]

Originally Posted by guitardom

keeybeets rig and specs are pretty normal. i have a quad core q6600, bla modded 002, firface 800 for converters. adl 600, api a2d, vintech x 73i, couple chameleon labs 7602's, distressor......outboard. the amount of plugs and samplers i can run in a session is ridiculous. we can run a LOT (about 2x's as many) more on le than hd users can do to a 3gb of ram access switch we can use in le that hd users cannot (though i hear that might change in 8) plus the buss speed of the hd cards is now slower than what our computers are capable of, either upgraded hardware from digi will have to happen or to phase out the hd hardware.

the upgrades coming to le in track count, finally more busses for the 2000 complete toolkit are very promising.

tracking latency is not an issue, i track with plugs all the time at a hw buffer setting of 64 (mac can do 32), and can actually get a lot of the mixing done at 64. hd is set at 128.

there are a couple plugs i wish they would port to le though such as the eventide bundle, and no excuse for digi not to have all of there plugs ported for le.

having ata now rtas is very nice. not been very fond of having to have a vst plug wrapped to make it work. plus some nice improvements, but is taking a bit to get used to, plus with pt 8 having 5 more plugin inserts, we are not giving up much using it.

the biggest downfall though is our lack of good hardware and inputs available. as stated by the first poster, only 1 adat input, 1 spidf, 4 of the inputs have to go through the digi pre's and 4 line. so 18 total but 14 usable, and limits of the adat khz rate. the only true thing i wish they would do is just offer me a digi interface with some adat and spidf inputs only, no pre's, no line ins, hell dont even need any monitoring onboard. that would make a huge boost i think in the le world for us med level studios.

check out duc.digidesign.com where a lot more of users like us hang out at. might be able to get more ideas and other peoples thoughts.

Cool. See im in the market of buying an iMac so im just trying feel out some stuff as far as work load.