Mo...if you have a firewire port or a PCI slot available to install a firewire port try the Mackie Onyx 820i Firewire Mixer. It's about $400 from online dealers and can record up to eight tracks simultaneously with two track stereo monitoring. We have the 16 channel version in one of our studios and it works great. We've done several full albums with this stetup with no problems. This mixer does NOT control the DAW or vice-versa, but the converters are topnotch and the mixer can double as an audio mixer for live performances in addition to recording. If you don't need that many simultaneous tracks try the TC Electronic Desktop Konnekt 6 Firewire Audio Interface with 6 firewire channels for around $200. And if you need even less inputs at once try the new TASCAM US-144MKII USB AUDIO/MIDI INTERFACE for about $149. We have both of these systems and they work just great for small studio setups. The Tascam and most USB interfaces usually require that the hardware be the only unit on a particular USB buss to avoid dropouts. But most recent computers, even laptops, usually have two or three busses with two inputs each, so no problem.

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