hehehe not true! Some dozy bint ploughed her car into me a year ago, and I'm finally getting a settlement. I thought if I spent it all at once on audio stuff I'd avoid spunking it up a wall on shite. This is more kit than I could ever really dream of buying normally, and so I want to make sure I'm buying sensibly.

I thought I'd get use out of the mackie preamps by routing soft synths and digital stuff into the desk. Thats why I need a soundcard with plenty of outs, and had picked the 1010. I was thinking that way it will fatten them up and I can make good advantage of both the preamps and the eq, and I can route the filterbank into the desk as a send.

I might not fully understand the firewire option - can I route soft synths into the desk using it? I thought it was just about sending channels in rather than sending signals out.

pm'd you about the filterbank