Well, they finally figured out why the Midiman quattro wasn't working right, I have one, and its good for stereo recording, and if I can eventually get an omni io for it I can get phantom power and volume control and nice stereo inputs for condensor mikes (if I had them). Usb is only really usable with decent layency for stereo playback and recording. The Hammerfall multiface with the pc card interface is the only game in town, until we can get am alsa driver for firewire, in which case you'd open up the linux laptop to a lot more hardware.
