Would this give me each track as its own file?

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The MacBook Pro has USB and firewire. This thing should give you separate channels for each input. USB tends to be slower when it comes to sustained throughput though, so I would imagine you'd be better off buying what looks to be pretty much the exact same interface in the Presonus Firepod. The Firepod is only inferior in the sense that each of the 8 inputs can be used as a mic OR line input - the Tascam appears to have 8 mic inputs, as well as 4 MORE line inputs, for a total of 12 simultaneous. I could be wrong, I only read the short description. Again, search around here for USB vs. Firewire info.

A lot of it relates to hard drive connectivity - I have an external hard drive that only has USB 2 hookup, and it cannot sustain constant playback of a few channels of audio while recording 1 more, if the project folder I am working with is on that external drive. I would imagine that you would have the same problem with a USB 2 interface, since they are both transferring digital audio data.
 
thanks alot

i have been leaning towards the fp10 or the 8pre havent decided yet

and then i came across the tascam in some searches so i decided to ask about it
 
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