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[RedhouseNorton]

Right now Im running PT 8 with a Digi 003 and I was wondering if its possible now with the changes that Avid has been making to ditch the Digi 003 and instead use a pair of M-Audio Delta 101LT cards ? I may be completely off base here , but it looks like the new Mboxes come with PT LE instead of the M Powered PT , so I was wondering if this would work. I was hoping to switch back to using a console and I thought this might be an easy way to do it

[superwack]

Hi, I've had mboxes and 003s in the past and all of them (old and new) have always come with PT LE - never with M-Powered. I'm almost 100% sure you cannot use m-audio interfaces with PT LE or vice versa

[BrandonFrisby]

You can use your 1010LT with Protools M-Powered, purchase it separately.

Your 003 and all MBoxes are LE only, and should have come with the software.

[thenoodle]

Sort of in this territory, which ProTools software does the M Audio Profire Lightbridge work with? Just M-powered software ? Or also with LE ?

I don't need pres ... or even Pro Tools for that matter, but the Lightbridge would be cool for use with other stuff I have and in the process, if it works with LE, that might give me a reason to also buy LE at some point.

[BrandonFrisby]

Here's how it works:

LE is the home studio version of ProTools for any USB/FW interface branded "Digidesign" or "Avid".
It's expandable only in the software, you can only use a single interface at a time, and you cannot go outside the means of that one interface.
The interfaces you can use with LE 8.0 and up currently are:

Digidesign 002 family
Digidesign 003 family
Digidesign MBox 2 family
Digidesign Eleven Rack
Avid Mbox family (aka Mbox 3)

Nothing else will work with ProTools LE.

ProTools M-Powered is almost the same (with a few exceptions as to software expandability) but can only use interfaces branded with the "M-Audio" name.
And again. Only one interface at a time. A pair of Delta 1010LTs will not work - you'll only be able to use one of them.