[mortirolo]

Hi and thanks for your reply!

As a non-Linux user, I hadn't heard of ALSA before, but looks pretty great.

I have never run a Linux machine, although always been tempted.

I mainly use Ableton Live which has no Linux version although apparently might run via Wine, but probably with a few glitches along the way especially where plugins are concerned.

I wish there was an enthusiastic group of clever people putting out open source drivers for OSX! Linux has such a great community.