ok. so i bought an ADAT machine (alesis adat xt) and am planning to use this in conjunction with my pc, meaning, i wil run 8 tracks of material to adat, run them back to the board for effects, then send it all to pc as two tracs stereo to be burned to cd. does this sound doable so far? my question is this; if i am using my computer for the final dumping ground for the stero tracks before burning, should i just send all tracks to pc (with a suitable music program) and edit and mix and do all the other wonderfull things you can use the current software to accomplish, and cut out the whole adat step in the chain. the cost would be for an audio interface that would probably be quite costly right, especially for a 4 or more input one? does that mean that all the pricy outboard gear i have is useless) because the computer programs add the effects internally right?) or can you run the sound from the pc back into your board, add effects, then run it back into pc?. please see fit to throw out any comments you have, i have posted here before and after one or two replys, the question is lost in obscurity. sorry if it is boring to everyone, but this is the newbie section and what better place to ask a seamingly redundant question? (is there a section labeled; "Recording for dummies")?