USB at least will have support for the foreseeable future.

I got your point. Thanks for the help. Well, in fact I’m not even using the digital channels on the legacy ufx yet. But I use all the analog i/o. Im just interested in sound quality and the analog i/o, midi and adat i/o for ocasional use. I plan to expand my setup with a 16 channel high quality mixing desk to connect a bunch of keyboards and MPCs but I already have this capability on my ufx via AES or adat I think. The smaller interfaces by rme with the current analog circuit and converters dont have the analog i/o of the ufx and is half size rack which I really dont like (not interested in portability of my main studio interface). The other option is the apollo x8 but I dont like the fact that it doesnt have midi i/o and I think that their dsp scheeme will be outdated in the near future. So maybe I should stick with my ufx for a while. Still thinking.