I must hand it to Yamaha. I think this is one of the first products I've seen that is really going in the right direction as far as digital and analog integration, while being targeted at people that don't have $20k+ to spend on this type of interface. I would love to see Yamaha take this idea the next couple steps and come up with something that is more geared towards the professional user with a studio for hire. Something that takes into account that those users may have high end converters, and outboard preamps, EQ's, compressors, etc. And 24 channels of course. Just give us a way to seemlessly integrate our racks of outboard with Cubase/Nuendo and the cool analog-style tracking/monitoring functionality for a reasonable price and I think you'll have a winner. The basic concept looks very promising though. Now kick it up a notch. thumbsup

Brad