captdan
In Memoriam
I'm a past user of Yamaha product as well. But I'm not very familiar with i-88. Were those interfaces driven by ASIO drivers? Or were they mLan? If ASIO, you won't be able to utilize it with the DM firewire card. Only one ASIO driver can be accessed at a time (Mac 'aggregate, technique notwithstanding - something I know nothing about).
I'm going to go against the grain here - and bear in mind - this is just my personal opinion. To me a computer in a recording studio is just a tape machine; it runs a DAW for purposes of tracking and playback while offering an array of helpful editing and MIDI features. Once that box is set up in my studio, adjusted, and tweaked, it's just like an MCI 32 track recorder on steroids. If it works, I don't fix it.
I just maintain and use it.
Mikro$oft and Apple will ALWAYS introduce something newer, bigger, faster, more powerful, more expensive, and requiring additional investment because of obsoleted apps. It never ends. This is one of the reasons I chose a DM *hybrid* mixer in the first place: I don't care too much about what new thing is around the corner. If upgrading PC/DAW becomes untenable, I'll throw the entire DAW in the trash and go with something else. Chances are the DM will still be there - either working with a hardware device, or - who knows - maybe controlling something yet to be conceived.
I don't work for Apple, Mikro$oft, Intel, Avid, Steinberg, or even Tascam. But their products work for ME or they're dismissed from my environment. I'm a bit of a rebel; I don't like companies making decisions for me. If they did, I'd be depressed and broke. Instead, I'm happy with a few shekels in the bank.
YMMV.
CaptDan
I'm going to go against the grain here - and bear in mind - this is just my personal opinion. To me a computer in a recording studio is just a tape machine; it runs a DAW for purposes of tracking and playback while offering an array of helpful editing and MIDI features. Once that box is set up in my studio, adjusted, and tweaked, it's just like an MCI 32 track recorder on steroids. If it works, I don't fix it.
I just maintain and use it.
Mikro$oft and Apple will ALWAYS introduce something newer, bigger, faster, more powerful, more expensive, and requiring additional investment because of obsoleted apps. It never ends. This is one of the reasons I chose a DM *hybrid* mixer in the first place: I don't care too much about what new thing is around the corner. If upgrading PC/DAW becomes untenable, I'll throw the entire DAW in the trash and go with something else. Chances are the DM will still be there - either working with a hardware device, or - who knows - maybe controlling something yet to be conceived.
I don't work for Apple, Mikro$oft, Intel, Avid, Steinberg, or even Tascam. But their products work for ME or they're dismissed from my environment. I'm a bit of a rebel; I don't like companies making decisions for me. If they did, I'd be depressed and broke. Instead, I'm happy with a few shekels in the bank.
YMMV.
CaptDan
