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

[xingu]

Thanks for all the replies everyone.

M-Audio has actually been decent about getting back to me - just not with the most helpful info. For one, they've told me that Logic RPC and Delta (the version that is bundled with the Quattro!) has a bug in it that creates ASIO errors - and so far, it remains unsolved. That still doesn't explain why the same thing happens with my full version of Logic...

Anyway, I don't have another audio app to test things out, so I think I'm done with the Quattro for now. Will probably look into the M-Box to get going with ProTools LE or possibly the US-428/Cubasis VST (plus MIDI, plus outboard controls). A quick look at the Tascam site is encouraging because it looks like they are pretty up on support. But this is turning into a different thread, so I'll do more damage elsewhere. Thanks again people. I'm learning a load just lurking around here.