Pro Audio wiki update...looking for contributers

Just a note that the pro audio wiki has been touched up a bit as it got quite dated again. If you are interested in or are currently doing audio recording/engineering work with Arch please have a look and make a contribution. There is a new "tips and tricks" section as well as a hardware specific section. Things are developing nicely on this front.
Wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pro_Audio
Website/forums:
http://archaudio.org/
Testing/development repo:
http://code.google.com/p/proaudio/
We are working on a system to bump the stable builds in the googlecode repo to a binary mirror.
And finally the Arch Linux professional audio IRC channel on Freenode at #archlinux-proaudio.
If you are interested by all means dive in!

Thanks guys for all the feedback.
So, say I get something like the RME Fireface
800...and I get Protool LE installed, am I gonna run
into any problems running both Logic and Protools
with this unit?
Sorry for being so detailed...I am extremly new to
using ANY audio interface beyond the 001 I had
before.
You CANNOT run ProTools with any other interfaces than the Digidesign and the M-Audio ProTools M-Powered interfaces...thats it...thats all...nothing more.....oh and some high end Apogee units with the ProTools HD system....so if your want to run ProTools and Logic, you need a Digi002, Mbox, or a M-Audio box....oh and currently there are no drivers for the Intel Macs for the M-Audio interfaces...

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