is there any way to save it to anything else other than the hard drive? put it on a disk or any way at all to get it off the recorder?
i guess what im asking is, when i record everything on it, how do i get it off.
there is a scsi output on it (i've been using the dps12 for several years now), and you could install a scsi drive on your computer and dump them that way, but i'm unsure as to whether or not individual tracks go or just stereo, because i've never used the feature.
alas, my greatest beef with my daw is that in order to get tracks on the computer, i run the optical out to my cd burner (a standalone harman kardon) and mix down to cd-r. then i put the cd-r in my comp and load the stereo tracks into soundforge for "mastering."
this is the worst limitation to the dps12--there is absolutely no way to get individual tracks onto your comp without individually putting them on a "middle man" and then loading them all individually in your comp (which i've never even attempted).
the good news is, the preamps are better than a lot of standalones, the eq is actually very good (albeit a bit clunky to get the hang of using, but easy once you do), and it's super-simple to operate (minus the effects, which i still haven't figured out, despite reading the manual a dozen times and spending countless hours trying to get some damn compression or reverb out of it).
so, in a nutshell, yeah--i think you may have bought the wrong thing for modern times. i got mine when they were new in '99, so i have a good excuse.
good luck with it!