Us-428 And Cubase 4.1, compatibility restrictions?? Options

[riket]

Hello everybody

I'm planning to purchase us-428.

Since Cubase 4.1 on an iMac 400 fills perfectly all my needs (until now) I prefer to stay on this very stable base (I have NO problem, compared to all I read in this forum). No doubt the iMac is not the ideal gear for audio, but I have it , so i'll keep using it for the moment. No doubt 5.xx has improvements on several points, but why to change a winning team?...

It's just that I'd like to get 1) a better sound quality in general, 2) some comfort from the remote controllers, 3) little improvement of cpu (ok someones say it doesn't help at all, someones say well, a little, we'll see). For points 1 & 2, there should be no bad surprise.

I read in the 428's manual that it's compatible with 8.6 (my OS) and 4.1. but they say that some functions are not available if not running a 5.xx.

1)Can somebody tell me what kind of controll wouldn't work?

2)Anyone of you had experience with 428 and 4.1 ? Or what kind of issues I could expect with that configuration?

I allready searched the forum for all the topics about 428, but no case matches my configuration. The reason of this post.

Thank you for any comment.
riket