I was thinking of getting a D8 however the lack of a USB swung my decision to the D1200 (and an extra 350 odd bucks ….damn !)

Korg SCSI is a nightmare if it is anything like the D1600 you can only use it to communicate with other Korg formatted disks (they don’t use Fat16 or Fat32) i.e. for connecting peripherals. In addition to the formatting problems you can’t use the SCSI port to hook it up to a PC because both devices want to act as the SCSI master …baaa poo ! That is one reason I went for the D1200 as it has 2Gb of the HDD allocated to a DOS friendly partition for exporting wave files.

On the D1600 I used to export wav files by burning them to a CDRW, can you do the same thing with the D8? All I used to do was to set “in” and “out” location points at the beginning and end of the song, copy the tracks onto the clip board and then export the clipboard as a set of WAV files which were burnt to the disk. I don’t know if this is any better or worse than sending them down a lightpipe which is fine as long as you are using S/P DIF (and not 8 channels ADAT 24/96 ‘cos of band with limitations - you would think Korg would have thaught of this before building it into the new 4 grand D32DX system.... Doh !).

http://www.korgboards.com would be a good place to find out for definite, there are a few people there (like Billy Edwards, Amgrad and Launchpad) who really know there **** !

Love the KSM mics they are so cool ! And as far as outboard gear is concerned, I have a Midiverb 4 and a Digitech Vocal 300, a middle sized EQ and a headphone amp. The rest of the stuff in the rack are cheep Behringer patch bays and that is it. Im really tring to move away from lots of clunky outboard gear like exciters et al as virtual ones are gowing to be much easier to move back to the UK. Besides Waves Native Gold / Autotune 3 are just the Dogs Bo*ocks !