ptle will only be able to talk to either digidesign hardware or certain m-box devices. nothing else. digi prefer to cook their own soup...

Yeah... Digi has always been a pain in the a** on that level. :evil:

But what about the second Firewire port on the 002? It is normally an in/out for a firewire drive, but can it be configured as a Firewire "thru"?

I'm just curious if anyone has thrown down some mad ninja skills to make it work.

Is the M-Powered hardware directly compatible with LE? Or do they force you to buy the poor man's Pro Tools to make the M-Audio stuff work?

It might be time for me to finally upgrade to Cubase SX. :roll:

Firewire port on 002 is a "firewire hub" output. You could connect your hard disk or whatever there. I would however put my harddisk first and the 002 last. The 002 adds absolutely nothing to what goes in and out through that connection. No hacking possible.

The standard PT LE 6.9 only speaks with 002, Mbox and MBox 2. Nothing else. Will not even start if none of them connected. The M-audio boxes needs another version which you have to buy at a separate price. The other version is called M-powered and additionally has a dongle if I remember right.

Personally, I got rid of PT LE a long time ago due to that kind of things. Never looked back. My program of choice, Samplitude, happily uses whatever sound card I connect: FW, USB or PCMCIA makes no difference to my laptop.

Gunnar

well....PTLE..6.9 and 7 works with M-Audio equipment...i have FW410 and Fw1814 from M-Audio they both work with PTLE...but you have to install M-Powered PTLE for that....but for shou it works with M-Audio devices other then PTLE... and yes offcourse you can also use other application on the same asio driver simultaneously... and try Nuendo 3 instead of Cubase SX..it finally has the ReWire feature now

Just an FYI...

I was on hold with M-Audio for 30 minutes this morning before a human answered. I called right when their service center opened.

By the time they picked up, I could have driven over there, urinated on their front door and drove back.

The service rep was an arrogant a** and really wasn't interested in my questions.

So think about that before you buy something from them that may break or cause you digital nightmares.

Buh-bye M-Audio...

BTW - To anyone else that cares, ProjectMix will not be recognized by Pro Tools LE on the I/O side. You can use HUI/MIDI to control its transport, but will need to buy lame-a** M-Powered Pro Tools for the firewire to jive with anything remotely Digidesign.

Both companies are owned by Avid... Ironic, don't you think?

To be very clear:

ProTools LE and ProTools M-Powered is exactly the same program except from two things: what hardware they talk to and the price.

LE is included with the hardware (002, 002R, Mbox2 are the current choices).

M-Powered costs 300 bucks suggested price. Includes a dongle. Talks to a selected list of M-Audio sound cards, not to any Digidesign hardware.

Both generally comes together with various packages of demo programs and plugins. Might be useful from that, but "all real users" buys additional plugins for big money.

G.

G.