Yes, I've seen it at namm and was very close to getting one. The whole thing weighs around 45 pounds. There are internal usb plugs for dongles as well as several external, firewire, and a built-in adapted delta 1010. They told me that they put flying faders into Stevie's unit, since he didn't need the monitor, so they will custom build to your specs. It would be great for live work, but you would be completely at the mercy of soft synths then. Gord ----- Original Message ----- From: Lewisjalexander@xxxxxxx To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 4:58 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Musicians! You may not ever use a midi keyboard Again! Hi guys. I've used the Opensystems NEKO for some testing and its absolutely heaven. it works great with jaws 7 and caketalking for sonar 4.04 which was the test platform I was running. I had the Native Instruments KOMPLETE system installed on it with sonar and a few other synth plug ins. I was so impressed by the feel of it and its operation. the touch screen is basically something for you not to worry about. its just so you can treat it like a paper and pen if you like so you can draw in wave envelopes and multiple edit fields etc. its control system is perfect and well worth considering. so take a good look at it. though for the price I'd be more looking at the idea of the PC side and staying there. I would buy one for touring use so Idon't have to take multiple system cases etc. you can install any PCI based audio cards etc in the system and have full reliability from it. go for it. trust me its a real beauty.