Dumping my DAW for a Roland MV-8800? What do u think

[anppilot]

My DAW is this:

PIII 500 Mhz, 512 MB RAM, 2X 40GB HD W/2 19" flatscreens, Win98, Cubase VST 3.7r2.

It works pretty darn good, however, I get only about 16 Tracks of audio out of it with effects.

I know the MV-8800 only has 8 tracks of audio, But I'd bounce them anyway.

I dunno. I've never used a MPC or external sequencer ever. Only Computer sequencers or DAW'S.

I have several sound/synth modules and the mv-8800 only has 2 midi outs, and I use a unitor 8 + mt4 for all my synths. So it would suck to have to keep swapping out synths to convert them to audio tracks.

What do you think?

 

[pipelineaudio]

depends how you like to work. I probably did over 100 albums on a p2 400mhz. 500 p3 is slow but I imagine youd still get an ok track count in REAPER

But for many many many many people the roland standalones give a feeling of robustness and immediacy...if it is compatible with V-Fire http://www.presonus.com/v-fire.html

then you can still use a daw later as well!

MV 8000 is listed as a supported device!

Personally I would spend the money on a PC upgrade. Even a el-cheapo shuttle system can run hundreds of tracks now