Hi Lindoz,
I was there on the first 2 days, so missed you

The floppy was there because I had a close up look. As I understood it most, if not all the sounds in the demo were new samples in the 7000.

However I think I was fed a line on the sub out, since Max talked to Phil Leader, and he is the man who should know, so the sub maybe is an assignable mono or stereo output loop for external processors and other uses.

Phil told me the 7000 was 128 poly.

It is possible the usb can process midi as well as audio - no more host socket?

I use an external usb soundcard. This takes the critical analogue to digital converters away from the laptop and gives superb quality. The 44 kHz digital wave file is output down the usb and appears as a virtual driver in Sound Forge etc. So instead of recording the analogue signal, you record the digital waveform direct. Then all editing is done digitally on the laptop with no analogue stage to be degraded in noise or distortion, the ideal scenario.

I understand that the 7000 will output the final audio signal as a wave file down the usb. Therefore the cd track can be transferred to the pc with no analogue signal processed in the pc at all. This will be a huge advantage to most owners with basic 'soundblaster clone' type soundcards in their pcs.

The present usb is easily fast enough for midi and cd quality audio. I like usb a lot, no IRQ conflicts, no driver conflicts, no rebooting, its got to be the way to go. The next usb version is considerably faster than firewire, and will easily do many multitrack 96 kHz audio.

Really good to hear from you again, Lindoz