More Quattro Grief, any insight will be much appreciated! Options

[xingu]

Hi folks,

I just bought a boatload of equipment in order to set myself up with a home recording studio, this being my first attempt at any kind of digital recording (read-I have no idea what I'm doing). So far, I've unsuccessfully attempted to use: an iMac G4 (384 RAM) on OS9.2 with an Audiosport Quattro and both Logic Delta (which was bundled with the thing) as well as Logic 4.7. After following all the installation instructions for OMS and the Quattro drivers (including dragging the Quattro's ASIO driver file into either of the two Logic ASIO folders), I get an error message that doesn't recognize the ASIO driver.

After scanning through some of the older posts, I see I'm not alone. However, I also recognize that there's a few lucky people out there that have somehow found a way to coexist with this horrid box.

Before I go ahead and just return the Quattro and write it off as a bonafide piece-o-crap, I'd like to see if anybody out there can offer some suggestions. If I can get it to work, I'd be pleased as punch. With what I'm trying to do, I need something that can handle both MIDI and audio - on first glance, there doesn't appear to be anything else out there that offers this combo (please correct me if I'm wrong) - especially in this price range ($260). Probably my fault for going cheap, but you would think that it wouldn't be such a difficult thing to get the Quattro to do what it is supposed to. Thanks in advance...

PS - I'm still waiting to hear from M-Audio

[Synthetic]

I don't own the Quattro myself but have a friend who bought one from my Sweetwater rep when they first debuted but now even he (Sweetwater Rep) is telling me they have lots of probs with them too. All he could suggest is to make sure you have their latest drivers installed and watch for extension conflicts.

That's really sad that such a neat and affordable little package like that wasn't given the proper research & development time to work out this issues. On the plus side... I have heard that they are releasing an OSX driver soon for it that will hopefully solve some of those probs but that might not matter much unless some of these music apps get onboard soon with OSX. I am REALLY ANTICIPATING the releases of new version of ProTools LE and Logic for OSX... so far the only big name player to make the move has been Digital Performer which is nice app but I am already dedicated to the other apps.