- What characteristics have motivated your choice?
Price, and the connection between EgoSys Audiotrak, specifications

- For what purpose?
Composition, recording a group model

- What is your config (Motherboard / CPU / Ram / Hard ,...)?
CM: ASUS-Deluxe P4P800E / CPU: P4 Prescott 3.2 / Ram: 2 GB / 72 GB U320 SCSI to IDE PATA for an audio system and an IDE SATA 1 for the rest

- Which instruments or the systems do you use? ...
A mixer Soundcraft Spirit FX16, I used to transfer the direct input signal to the sound card.
I put 8 because there are DAC / CAD higher quality and above all there is no gain control on inputs 4-8 (9 and 10 are digital and programmable 1 and 2)
Note that the DirectWIRE is spectacular!

UTILIZATION

- The installation is done it without problems?
None, however, Of ​​course you must download the latest driver.

- Have you experienced any incompatibilities?
No

- The general configuration is easy?
Clear. Caution must understand the principle of latency setting is in sample. The latency of the map may be very low. I work with samples in 256 projects in 16 tracks 96KHz/24b. At this level it may be worth up to 512 samples latency when it gets hot to the processor

- The manual is clear and sufficient? ...
Yes, but clearly need

GETTING STARTED

- The drivers are stable?
Perfectly

- Are they often updated?
Hmm since February 2006 there are more updated. ESI is not very consistent to get out of drivers

- What software do you use most often?
Sonar 5.2

- What you get lag?
If I rack serves as the best real-time effects 3ms. Usually with 16 tracks 96kHz/24bits real-time effects on each track and latency to 256 samples I set to 8.3m

- How many tracks you get to record / play time? ...
Recording 10 tracks with no problems (8 analog + 2 digital). Reading it should be possible to get 64 tracks without too much difficulty. It depends on the project

I put 9 because you can always ask for more.

OVERALL OPINION

- How long have you use it?
1 and 1 / 2

- What is so special that you like most and least?
most: the 8 analog inputs and the possibility of 4 cards
the least: the spindle of the mini PCI-din that serves as input / output and MIDI. A little fragile

- Have you tried many other models before buying it?
Some one like Waveterminal 192M ...

- How would you rate the quality / price?
Very good

- With experience, you do again this choice? ...
Yes, but if I were richer I'll see from Hercules.