Well I bought the Fast Track USB ProTools Essential and returned it. Had nothing but problems and never did get it running.

Waited FORTY FIVE MINUTES on hold for tech support...which is outrageous in this day and age...and hung up. Among other things, it ships with v. 8.2 of pro tools but when it won't work and you go into the help pages, it states that you need v. 8 or 8.1 if you are running XP SP3.

Well a HUGE percentage of the installed base of PCs is running on XP SP3 so the box SHOULD NOT state that it is XP compatible!

Oh, and the installation DVD wouldn't even open on 2 of the 3 computers I tried it on.

Oh, and when I tried to D/L the latest Fast Track driver as recommended in the manual, I got repeated "data invalid" errors on 1 of 3 computers I tried.

Other than that, it was perfect. (-:

The above is only a heads up and only from my personal experience. Results may vary.

Best,
Jim