Hi Terry & Roel & all: I too have been seriously considering purchasing a hard disk recorder (like the Yamaha's AW16G or Tascam recorder) to add to my setup, but a telephone sales Rep at Zzounds.com warned me I won't be able to easily transfer individual HD recorder tracks to my PC for editing in Cakewalk Sonar, which I already own. He said I would first must 'mix down' all the individual tracks to 2 (stereo) tracks. He said I need to decide between: recording on a hard disk recorder standalone unit, or recording using computer software, and that's its NOT recommended to combine the 2 recording types. He strongly recommended that I stick with Sonar and if I wanted to record outside the studio, to purchase a laptop instead. I'm a bit suprised he told me this because he just lost a potential commission in selling me a HD recorder. Was this guy giving me mis-information? - Scott