The idea is to hock the interface to a analoge mixer, using the buses or just going for the direct out. A patch-bay would be a convenient solution to, but more cable.

A makie mixer with a mix-b option would be greate :) but to expensive i guess.

Support

I just thought I'd share two things. One is that M-Audio's support is horrid. They will respond, but they will often point the finger at Apple or say "we don't support that". Terratec's support is, surprisingly, worse! I've submitted at least two requests for support on their website and have never received any response.

Then again, the Terratec product works in my system, whereas the M-Aaudio would cause a kernel panic every time.

So what your saying is that you wouldnt recomend any of those :D
Dang dud! ill never get me any budget converters :(
Have read alot on the net. A guy had the Phase 88 up and running beautifully in Linux. I would like that :P But not that many powerfull audioprograms there yet :(

Not Quite

HansAm wrote: So what your saying is that you wouldnt recomend any of those :D

Not explicitly. What I'm saying is if you acquire an M-Audio interface and it doesn't work, they'll tell you that and they won't help you. If you acquire a Terratec interface and it doesn't work, they won't talk to you.

I have a Terratec Phase22 and though the S/PDIF ports don't work with Mac OS X v10.3.x for some reason, the analog outs have audio, so I'm tolerating it. Two requests for support on this issue have never been answered. The M-Audio Delta DiO 2496 I had would always cause a kernel panic with Mac OS X v10.3.x. All M-Audio would say is "we don't support your configuration", though it was clearly an M-Audio driver problem.

It seems as though the only true answer to my problem is a Power Mac G5 with that optical port. Maybe someday, but not today!

Dang. Thats sad :/ Im on a PC(Windows/Linux) system so i hope i can atleast get it to work on ONE of them :P