I did until it died.  I haven't bothered replacing it.  I need to eventually get a new interface for Linux, running my RME 9632, but my workstation died recently and I am using my MBP as my workstation, with Ardour running with an Apogee interface and loving it.

18 channels sounds right, though I never tested it fully to be honest.  I was running a 410 at the time so I never really had much chance to.

         Seablade

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
Thomas - So you still own the hardware? I sold mine to some nice bloke
in Australia and seldom looked back. I do something think I might get
a copy of M-Powered to play with.

I think LE supported 18 channels but I can hardly remember. There were
something like 8 analog inputs on the LE hardware, along with one ADAT
and stereo spdif for 18. I wouldn't be surprised if Digi decided to
keep that constant. I've only seen M-Powered operating with a small
M-Audio card, forget which one, but 4 channels or something. M-Powered
was a nice idea for folks who wanted to try Pro Tools but weren't
going to buy a real system.

- Mark

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:50 PM, Thomas Vecchione <seablaede@gmail.com> wrote:
> M-Powered and LE are essentially the same, except LE can support the DV
> toolkit, where M-Powered cannot.  Last I checked anyways, I haven't bothered
> to update my Protools in some time, Ardour FTW;)
>
>         Seablade
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Rick Green <rtg@aapsc.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> > >
> > >  >
> > >
> > > >>>  Looks to me like a klone of the Focusrite saffire 26 pro, and
> Focusrite
> > >  >>>  has supported the ffado project with documentation and hardware,
> so that's
> > >  >>>  where my money would go...
> > >  >
> > >  > I just looked at the 26 pro specs yesterday.  It looks like the
> > >  > M-Audio unit has more input connectors.  The 26 pro only has 8 inputs
> > >  > that aren't ADAT or S/PDIF, right?
> > >  >
> > >    My read has them equal in I/O: 8 analog with pre's, 2 via SPDIF, and
> 16
> > >  via 2 ADAT optical.  Adds up to 26.  The M-Audio unit mentioned that
> only
> > >  18 were supported under pro-tools.
> >
> > The above statement is for Pro Tools M-Powered and may or may not not
> > Pro Tools LE or Pro Tools. Pro Tools M-Powered is the M-Audio version
> > of Pro Tools that Digi started providing after then snatched up
> > M-Audio. M-Powered has a number of limitations, presumably to get you
> > to upgrade to LE or a full blown system.
> >
> > As an ex-Pro tools user it seems unlikely that this limitation would
> > apply to all versions of Pro Tools.
> >
> > Just my guess. I know nothing.
> >
> > - Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
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