M Audio Project Mix I/O

Any opinions on this unit? I already have a Focus Sapphire 24DSP Pro. It has lightpipe on board, so I'm considering this to double as expansion I/O, as well as MAINLY as a control surface (could I use this as JUST a control surface, using the Sapphire as my main audio interface?). Should this do the trick? Using 8.5 PE, and considering upgrading to X1. Thanks.

That is always a crap shoot - you have to look at both units.  W/O doing that, I would think it would work.  Choose the M-Audio as your midi controller.  As to audio, if the M-audio remembers settings you should (in theory) be able to route the inputs to the ADAT out - then hook those into the Saffire.  Should work, if the MA remembers its settings w/o being hooked up to the computer.  If not, I doubt your computer would handle two itnerfaces at once.  Even if it does remember, there still might be problems.  Sometimes ADAT ins won't get routed to the latency-free mixer, etc.  So I would definately want to be able to send it back if it doesn't work as advertised for audio.

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Hey ya'll thanks for the replies.

Batsbrew, sorry, I haven't been getting the reply notifications, and I haven't been online the last few days. I will check out those samples, and get back to you. What I REALLY want to do is use this mainly for a control surface. (Could this be done through MIDI, without hooking up through Firewire?)

As for Audio, it would be nice to be able to expand via ADAT, but I could just use this instead of the Sapphire if I needed more I/O. I have a couple of U/A 710's if I need critical preamping.