It's not bingo anymore! There is a reason why things are cheap.

I'm getting more and more consirned about what I will really get for the money since it is told to be 24 ins/outs.

1.What I get is 14 channels in/out at 96kHz on 24-bit resolution, so it's a 14 channel mixer.

2.Quality issues? Tascam is not, what I've heard, a manufacturer of great PC drivers. Latency? What happens with the latency if I run 14 channels @ 96 or 24 channels @ 48 on a medium quality PC driver?

4.Useless digital effects? I read that the effects in the tascam are somewhat flat and not that good.

5.Expandability issues?

So what happens when I count in this in the price? It's not so cheap anymore... No matter how stellar the converters, how nice the mic pre’s, or how expensive or inexpensive an audio interface may be it doesn’t mean squat if the drivers are not up to snuff. Good drivers allow for stability and low latency operation. So by going for the Tascam DM24 I might end up with a unit that has almost what it takes to be able to record 14 tracks simoultaneously at 96 KHz into a computer.

I came to realise that for me the most important part in the chain will be the audio interface. I know what will upset me the most, that is driver problems in software sequencers. Cheap is good when quality is there, but when it isn't it really sucks!

I've done one mistake in my life so far when it comes to purchasing music gear. I have chosen cheap once in my life. That was a Behringer V-Amp 2 that the experts were bragging about. It surely was cheap, it surely was nice looking, and I surely got a chock when I started to play that thing! What could I do with amp simulations and speaker cabs when it all was just noise? I can tell you it was not fun to return such a beautiful peace of crap! I read the same thing about a guy that had stability problems with the firewire card for his DM24. The most scary part was that he seemed to be more of an expert than I am.

[This message has been edited by YamahaAndy (edited 03-06-2005).]