Hallo, rob canning hat gesagt: // rob canning wrote: Okay, I once said to avoid USB like the plague, but today I could try the Audiotrak MAYA 7.1 EX, which worked instantly plug and play and allowed using all 8 channels independently from Pd via Jack and with rather lowish latency (jack running at "-n 3 -p 256 -r 48000", the Maya doesn't do anything more than 41,0 kHz) At about 160 Euro it's above your price range, but I suppose that the Audiotrak MAYA 5.1 EX will work just as well as the 7.1, and it's only 98.00 Euro at thomann.de Still above you threshold but not that much anymore. I'm really pleased with the Maya box after the short test. On my laptop it provides much lower latency than my M-Audio Quattro, which Jack only likes klick-free starting at "-p 2048". Go figure! Let's see what the other tests bring. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__