Whatever, horses for causes, I really like my set up and I started with a Tascam 424 mk II which is finally being put out to pasture this week when my new desk arrives !! 18 track 4 buss Peavey !! Whooohoo !

I still use DAW for two reasons:

1) stability (hasn't crashed in living memory)

2) trigger recording

I still think that for a beginner A DAW is better as there are less distractions / stuff to go wrong. All the effects are included and you can pick up a good one for about 4-500 bucks.

However there are limits to what they can do. The Korgs midi capabilities are lame. The pre amps are less than stellar. The interface is crap etc etc however as I only use the beast for tracking and I bypass the pre-amps by using an S/P DIF input I'm not bothered. Exporting tracks is easy so I'm a happy camper. However For some one who wants to use a lot of midi I can see they would be very limiting.

Having gone down both paths, I still like 'em but that is mainly due to the way I work !! Though saying that I will not be forking out 3-4 k for a high end korg or Rolland as I really think they are massively over priced and I don't care about automated faders !! I can do that with Sonar and Id rather have a G5 running Logic Pro 7.