Thanks for your advice keybplayer.

There are 3 things I like very much about the RME Fireface 800:

- Good driver support
- Good D/A and D/A converters
- FireWire

Additionally I think this is very good:

"Fireface 800 uses RME's own FireWire techology, heavily optimized for audio purposes (RME is the only manufacturer not using a third party FW technology!). Lowest overhead, special hardware adaptations and a new low latency buffer concept enable a performance and compatibility which has been thought of as impossible until now. This includes latency change on the fly, latencies down to one millisecond, and immediate reaction on changes of the sample rate. Further enhancements and optimizations are easily added by performing a Flash Update. The Fireface 800 has a second port for hub functionality, bi-lingual mode for full FireWire 400 compatibility, and an additional FireWire 400 port. Several Fireface 800 can be used in parallel and at the same time on one FireWire port."

I also read that you don't need to lower the recording quality even though many inputs are used simoultaneously, so you really get the power! Because it's FireWire you should be able to add several Firefaces and get as many inputs and outputs as you like. One unit has 10 inputs and 10 outputs. It should also be sweet together with a laptop live.
The price tag is also pretty good. I can get it for 1330€ at thomann.de, but I have a local dealer that is even cheaper, maybe something like 1200€... But the zzounds.com's offer at $1,449.95 is even cheaper, so I just have to check their policy on international orders to Europe (shipping, tax rates etc) I have yet an additional source where I can get it for 1199 €, so I usually have them fighting for my purchase, then I usually get it very cheap... At http://www.bayviewproaudio.com I get it for $ 1,379.00 but the shipping might get expensive, I just have to find a few more cheap sources...!

Best regards,
YamahaAndy

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