its been a very long time. i once used one of these away from home to record song ideas. if i remember it puts 8 tracks on cassette, but at its own speed. NOTE ... you cant play back in a regular cassette deck.
you mix down to a regular cassette deck if you want your mix to playback on a cassette deck. or you could mix down into a computer or a vhs stereo hi fi or a reel to reel tape machine or to one of those small md recorders for example. one thing you could do that might interest you is to mix to a computer then encode mp3 or burn a cd of your songs.
peace.