I am looking at upgrading (and or swapping my 002) that i currently have running on my xpress 5.8 system to a system running composer.

i am looking to confirm the functionality with the 002 and composer... i like the workflow as it exists with xpress 5.8 and would hate to loose that in composer-

any one in a similar situation?

Yes the digi 002 does work with MC 3.0, but as you probably know Pro tools and MC 3.0 are not compatible on the same system. Before installing MC 3.0 I suggest you first uninstall Pro Tools and the PT drivers and reboot.  Also if you have your critical updates turned off you might need to download KB926255 and install it first before installing the new digi drivers.

As for working with Pro Tools, I haven't gotten to that point yet but I will probably install another drive on my system with a second windows boot and install Pro Tools on that drive or as some have suggested put Pro Tools on another computer.

 actually, that would be just fine, i was not planning on using PT on the system with MC on it anyway... was just hoping to use the functionality of the 002 in doing mixes in MC just as i do in xpress...

so it sounds like the functionality would be the same..

We have MC3 installed on xw8400 with DIGI002 attached and it works just fine, no difference to the XpressPro (Studio) that was previously installed. We did, however, do a system rebuild for MC3 and moved up to Vista Business 32Bit at the same time. All working just fine.

We also created a dual boot system on one of our xw8400s (both Vista Business 32Bit) so we could use it for ProTools as well and it works like a dream. We used a single physical SATA drive with 2 partitions (not 2 physical drives) with MC3 on the first partition and PT on the second and dual booting functionality in Vista Business is vastly improved over XP IMHO.

The only limitation we have encountered in ProTools is that, under Vista, ProTools 7.4cs5 does not yet support Mojo (or any Avid video hardware) but the Digidesign sight declares this and states an intent to provide Avid video functionality in a future CS update, but this is a Vista issue not an MC/Protools conflict.