This has been greatly informative so far! I love you guys!!!

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Yes, it looks like it has only 8 faders for channels, plus a master fader, but those 8 faders are in four banks that you choose using two arrow buttons. This gives me control of 32 channels with those 8 faders.



My question there is if there are only 8 faders, and they are bank assignable, how do I make changes to channels 2, 7, and 11 at the same time, because it sounds like 1-8, 9-16, 17-24 and 25-32 would be the configuration. That makes me think I can only mix 1-8 at one time, 9-16 at one time, etc.... I just don't get the concept of not having 16 faders there for 16 channels of music. Granted I can only have fingers on 8 at a time, but how often do it get 1-8 like I want them and then move on to 9-16 (and I rarely, if ever, go past 12).

The major thing that is throwing me in interfacing with the computer. If it is a USB connection, I then select that (Tascam) device in RB as my outputs when I mix down for print, and assign each track a channel 1 thru 12 (I will use 12 there because again I never go past 12).

Right now with the MOTUs I have to assign each channel to which MOTU and which channel ON the MOTU, so for example, my track one is assigned to "424(1) 1,2", and panned hard left to come out of #1 on the MOTU, and plugged into channel 1 on my mixer. Track 2 is "424(1) 1,2" and panned hard right to come out of #2 on the MOTU, and plugged into channel 2 on my mixer. And so forth until I get to 8. Then I route to "424(2) 1,2" and that send the channel to the second MOTU unit.

That is probably as old school as it gets, and I really DO want to work digital. I just don't have anybody around to show me how. All my friends run home studios close to the way I do. There is one guy here but we are not on a level where we know each other outside of here. I would buy the Tascam unit Scott recommended to me and sell the MOTU stuff TODAY if I thought it would be a smooth transition.

So I guess I can sum this installment up by asking "How do I mix 12 channels on 8 faders?"