It also provides an interesting second life to your LAST Power Mac. The only catch is that hardware sampler companies have not ignored the writing on the wall, and they have been bringing down the price of hardware samplers at a quite a clip. The above system with the MIDI interface and the RAM, along with the software, will bring you pretty close to the cost of an AKAI S2000, and I don't see much fun in hauling my Mac to a gig. Still, I bet this is the way we will all be sampling pretty soon, and the DS-1 looks like a fine way to get started. More on Audio Interfaces I still get unsolicited raves about the 2408 from Mark of the Unicorn .
Nobody seems to have much to complain about with it.
They even delivered it pretty close to on time. I also get asked regularly about the Layla from Event . If there is anyone out there using it, we would all like opinions or a short review of how it's going. The potential killer feature for the Layla is that it has balanced inputs, instead of the unbalanced RCAs on nearly everything else for similar amounts of money. The Creamware Pulsar and Yamaha DSP Factory are both finally shipping.