First, neither has great preamps. Second, I'd rather have PT-M than LE but I'd rather not use either. Unless the FastTrack comes with a DAW I'd recommend starting with Reaper. Neither of those units has much in the way of onboard DSP. Certainly not enough to make anything a game changer. Both of the units are capable of making decent enough recordings if not pushed too hard.

So in conclusion, if I had to select one of those two units, I would go with the M-Audio unit.

Well I currently have an E-MU 0404USB and I'm using Logic 9 for recordings. I decided that I wanted to make a switch to Pro Tools so I'm trying to decided whether I should go MP or LE. I appreciate the help.

Your EMU kicks either of those other options to the curb any day of the week. Really. 100% of the time. There are limitations for PT LE and slightly less for PT-M. An HD system would be different but that is exceedingly expensive. Why pray tell are you wishing to switch to PT?

Well I wanted to get into PT and start learning it since it's the standard.

Standard in whose eyes? Not to be argumentative, but PT HD was once a "standard" because it was a turnkey system that was effective and the parent company was brilliant with marketing. In the home recording world PT LE or M was never "standard" and indeed no reason for it to be. In the professional audio engineer/studio community today, there is no single "standard" DAW program. Is PT HD frequently used for tracking/mixing in big studios? Yes. Is Logic or Cubase just as prevalent in big studios? Yes. Do some studios use more than one DAW? Yes, many.

My point is that you would be better off learning to effectively use one the main standard DAW programs that you already have rather than get locked into a proprietary hardware/DAW relationship which will still be there if in the future you find logical good reasons to go that route.

hmm.. wow. ok.. Thanks. I really appreciate the help. I'll be sticking with my E-MU and Logic

If you get to where you need to play with PT,then do your tracking with the EMu. Then import the .wav files into PT and work with them.

Then you buy an MBox Micro which is just a dongle to run PT.

That's a great idea! I didn't think about that. Thank you very much for your input and your help

MBox micro comes with Protools LE 8.

TheJackAttack, post: 355827 wrote: MBox micro comes with Protools LE 8.

For the price you may as well get the Mbox mini. A mere $50 more. At any rate none of these are pro units in any way. This should really be in the home studio forum. JackAttack has a lot of good points. You should go read some at the [="http://duc.avid.com/"]digi user confrence.
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Well now Pro Tools 9 is here and it looks perfect for what I want to do. My current interface plus Pro Tools!.. Awesome.. Thanks again for your help.

Or just wait for this new ProTools 9 that was just introduced. Yes, if you talk about a standardization process, ProTools is the closest thing I've seen to an analog analogy. It's about time or perhaps it's about CPU cycles?

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