I was so undecided between the mesh and the mylar, it was a hard decision. The mesh kit is $125, so I consider that fairly cheap. I'll convert maybe in 6 months. My wife is pretty tired of my expensive hobbies.
I am so happy, I finally got Reaper and Addictive Drums 2 working today. Had to do a bit of googling, and found most of the info here and noterepeat.com . I'm using USB for right now and in Reaper it causes a lot of latency on my laptop. I may end up moving my desktop down there, but it still don't have a stand-alone audio card which sucks. Would using a midi to usb convertor work better?
Thanks for the tip as well.