Jim Y said:
If you're going to stay happy with the number of channels your 1010lt has, you're ok. However, the Digidesign Delta driver M-powered uses doesn't allow multiple cards. So you can't increase the i/o beyond what the one card has.
And it's capped at 32 tracks. When you're recording 8 drum tracks at a time, it's really easy to exceed that in an hour recording session.
And as someone else mentioned, it can't export OMF, so once you buy it, you're locked into that software platform unless you move up to their more expensive versions. There's no easy way to move your projects to another DAW.
I'd pay $50 for it just to be able to say I had Pro Tools in my studio (and absolutely refuse to use it). For $250 retail, that's almost as much as the competitive upgrade price for Digital Performer (and you can get that price for upgrading even some really ancient software---I think I "upgraded" from an old copy of Master Tracks Pro that stopped working when I upgraded to Mac OS 9 six or seven years ago).
Oh, and for that exttra $75, DP imports and exports OMF, has no track limit AFAIK (at least I haven't found one), and lets you use as many audio interfaces as you want (from any manufacturer).
I locked myself into a DAW that couldn't export OMF once. Big mistake. I got so mad at the company's bugs (which they still haven't fixed a year and a half later) that I gave up and wrote a translator app to read their file format and export OMF. I'll never make the mistake of locking myself into a DAW that only saves in a proprietary project file format again.
I can't imagine what Digi was thinking when they made such a horribly limited product cost that much money. Maybe they were hoping that the Pro Tools name would fool people into thinking that this thing's specifications don't totally suck, but there are way too many apps on the market at about the same price point that aren't limited to the point of being useless.
Save your money.
