Digital Multi-Tracking on a notebook....

[Linn]

I used to think that I knew something about digital recording with a PC. Not anymore.

I've just bought a new H-P 'PhotoSmart' Pavilion notebook with a 3GHz PIV chip with an 800 MHz 'Hyper-Threading' frontside bus. 512 MHz SDDR.

Now all I need is a decent analog to digital mixing board/software solution for mulit-track/live band recording.

Should be simple...right???

Nope.

I thought at first that the Lexicon Omega was the real deal. All kinds of problems have been reported. Sorry-assed tech support to boot.

Same deal with TASCAM products.

DigiDesign's 'M-BOX' is too confining, but has good feedback if you're going to record a track at a time.

Mackie has a great and well deserved reputation in live sound, but has a miserable rep with it's 'Spike' analog to digital recording interface.

Does anyone have a reasonably priced ($500) analog to digial interface and digital (8 into 4 mixer with mic pre-amps) recording software solutuion for laptops that works???????

Linn -