You just missed (?) a lovely discussion of the pros and cons of
Ensoniq's Paris system, which is 24-bit, 16 (live) channels, with
expandable interface, a card with onboard DSP processing, and a nonMIDI
hardware fader box/control panel. A fine, but still new, device for
about half as much as Digi's nearest equivalent. I still have some of
those emails on the harddrive here if you would like me to forward them
to you.
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Carlton Joseph Wilkinson
http://excaliber.net/alex/wilkwrks.htm