I have installed the audiophile 2496 on my production PC, and I ABSOLUTELY love it!!! Everything is connected JUST the way I want. Music flows from one sound source to one mixer than into my PC which can also be routed back out to the mixer, etc... Yeah, it sounds convoluted, but it's beautiful!! :) I also got my Edirol PCR-30 MIDI controller as well! Ah... My lovely home studio. I just need to save up for a decent pair of studio monitors, now. Man, I'm broke...

Well, so get this... I was all excited about my new sound card, and went all out in configuring all my apps to use the new sound card for audio output and did the whole sound latency buffering configurations, midi congifurations, etc... the whole nine yards.. Then I wanted to work a lil bit on the DS remix of my LG remix (yeah, remix of a remix... heh heh) to see how all the interworkings of my setup behaved. So I launch acid to work on one beatmapped segment... I drop in my wav file... *KAPUT* No wave form is shown on the track.. I'm like... "huh???" Did my Acid just toally lose its mind??? I go through the beat map wizzard again to make sure it's all good... the track wave form shows up in the wizard, I beat map it... all good... then back to the screen... Still nothing on the track... I try duplicating the track.... I apply the latest Acid patch... Nothing seems to do anything... It takes me like 30 minutes in this bizarre state of panic (not sure to laugh or to cry) thinking to myself that i may have to manually beat map my sound sources... Then *BAM* I realize what's wrong and of course I feel like a TOTAL IDIOT... In Acid, once you drop your wav file, you have to use the pencil tool to draw how much of the wav form to use... I remember when I first used Acid this wasn't obvious to me, but I had used Acid extensively for my LG remix this year... Hmm.. should I blame this on usability or user stupidity? *SMIRK*