M-box is made by digidesign, the company that makes pro tools. As they update pro tools you can purchase those updates and they work fine. They still sell M-box it is not outdated at all.
And it rocks. It is a crazy week of school from my Berklee classes so I have not had much time to play but so far I love it. The first record I spun, the doors first album. Oh ya.
I second the Audiophile advice! Good entry level card. I used to be into Creamware but the more I worked with the company the more I found out how bad they sucked (as a company) and was poorly managed. to bad they have some cool products.
ok once again, you can put in 3 video cards of you want. You dont need a dual head card or a quad card. Just drop a cheap video card in to your extra pci slot. ME and up support like 12 displays IE: Monitors.
Well waves and Voxengo are two differents types of plugins for different jobs. Vexengo is good for coloration. Waves are more transparent. It just depends on what you need to do. They complement each other.
I thought it was about the same as the MPC2000 You have to hit those pads hard! I really like my MPD16. I would take that and reason over and MPC any day.