A word of caution... Be very careful with Akai. I have the DPS12. I bought it with the JAZ drive as the recording medium. There was a problem with the JAZ drives and they never worked like they were supposed to. Akai offered a deal where they would swap out the JAZ for an internal 2 gig hard drive. They did not publish this fact and put a time limit on it. The JAZ drive I had was not bad at first but got worse as I recorded. Eventually, the unit would have failed. I barely got in on the swap. Akai never contacted those who had purchased the problem units. 2 gig hard drives are much cheaper than JAZ drives. I was not compensated. I was treated horribly by Akai customer service. (They were incredibly rude and treated me as though they could care less about my satisfaction meant nothing after purchasing several things from the company.) I have spent quite a lot of money on music gear over the years. The only trouble I have had with gear breaking down is with my DPS12 and with the CD ROM dirve on my Akai CD3000XL. Needless to say, I will never again buy Akai. In my experience, customer service is severely lacking with this company. My DPS12 works well for what I do with it, but for the trouble I have experienced and the way I was treated by their customer service department, I would not buy an Akai product regardless of what was promised by their advertisements. Make your own decision but at least wait until the units have been out for a while and tested by the masses.

mike