Zoom R16 here. 8 in's, 2 out's. Works just like an old tape multitrack, arm it by pressing record then press play. Rewind after recording and mixdown to a master stereo track.
It has effects that I've never even tried but I do use the 3band eq for each track with sweepable mids.
No way to sync to my MIDI clock devices, but I don't overdub, it's one pass and that's it (well if I stuff-up, like forgetting to turn up an effect on cue, it's two passes).
Multiple R16's can be stacked and synced for greater simultaneous track recording. I'm getting a second (actually the R24) this month so I can do drums on one and other instruments on the other.
24bit/44.1KHz in standalone mode. First recording I made with it was my old flatmate playing acoustic guitar in the lounge with it's inbuilt mics. Sounded enough like the real thing that he wanted a copy.
Tape (cassette) is nice and romantic, like using candles for dining. I used to use it when that was all I could afford and insisted that it made everything sound 'warm'. It does sound nicer than the early digital, but at the expense of clarity. My recordings in digital sound so much better than my tapes. I don't need to drive the highs and lows to get good representation of the highs and lows on play-back and my wallet is heavier in the long run from not having to buy expensive one-use cassettes with a recording time of 22min 30sec in high resolution. I really don't trust that the tapes I made at the turn of the century will playback more than once now too.
Never had the luxury of recording to reel, I had one at one stage but couldn't get stock for it!