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I have no interest in trying to convince Eddie how to do things one way when he has his mind set on another.



I read this with a smile while adding the implied "Because it is obvious at this point that his head is harder than cement and we will not change him anyway...."

Spot on, John. Everybody, good intentions understood and appreciated, is missing the bottom line.

I don't WANT alternatives. I am a hacker. Hackers live to push things beyond accepted norms and make hardware do what it has never been able to do. REAL hackers do not do damage. REAL hackers explore and push limits.

And the most recent suggestion, once again, stops at 8 tracks.

Everyone please stop thinking about audio recorded tracks and start thinking about physical outs. I want 16 recorded tracks to go through the 16 outs on my 2x8 MOTU hardware, into my 16 channel Mackie mixer, and out to my speakers. That is the goal. Anything else is failure to me. (See: I am a hacker.)

I seriously (there's the phrase again!) don't care about "control surfaces". I want to make Real Band do what I stated above. 16 recorded tracks flowing through 16 discreet outs into my mixer.

So many comments come back to "and get back to the business of making music". I am not in the business of making music. Diane Warren is in the business of making music. Taylor Swift is in the business of making music. Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Brent Carter.... I am in the business of keeping a network at a major company running. My hobby is music. I don't gig, I don't have any interest at all in moving all my gear down a flight of stairs, packing it (somehow) into a Kia Rio, setting up, playing for people who likely won't understand, and then moving it all back up the flight of stairs and setting it all back up. I don't have the financial luxury of "home gear" and "road gear". I just want to write songs FOR ME, and write them on a system I know how to use that doesn't require a 3rd trip through college.

Please refocus on the goal here. 16 tracks, running through 16 discreet outs, into a 16 channel mixer. All analog. I don't even use MIDI anymore. There is no need for it. If I want to layer, I clone the track and play the same thing on a different patch and record it. When I played live, my rig was a marvel - MID everywhere. MIDI patch bay controlled by a keypad.... That was 18 years ago. Now I just want this to do what I want this to do. And now I have 2 other people who have exposed this deficiency, so it may now get more attention and get resolved.

To pull a line from one fo my songs... "And I'll be dying to tell you 'I told you so'!"