I appreciate your input on this. Maybe I need to explain a couple of things. I do need quite a few tracks, hence wondering about chosing a multitrack recorder. I absolutely need at least eight tracks more likely 16. They will be used to pile up overdubs as in the old fashion way. This is to experiment several instrumentations, different takes of guitars, vocals. As regards to the Tempest I'd love to work that way too, this is essential. I came up with an idea which is purely theoretical right now. The idea is to use a voice out which will be used as a trigger, for the sake of exemple, a kick sound from the Tempest. If I was to program the kick on every beat for the whole song at a fixed tempo, would that be usable as a trigger provided that I lay it down on a dedicated track of the multitrack device? I mean, could I use this track to trigger the Tempest at any time afterwards. The idea is that I could try and play different beats from the Tempest synchronised with what has been recorded on the recorder? Is that possible? The aim is to be able to experiment different beats while not having to re record the audio parts again and again. This would be really useful. I assume some kind of box could sync up the recorder with the Tempest, providing the Tempest is been used as slave. Any chance ?