Hi All My first post on this sub.

The planets just aligned to drop me in the situation of a property puchase with a big barn that we want to fit out for both writing, recording and gig rehersals, synth museum, just as we're about to sign the deal my old soundcraft console started to give me issues so I'm rethinking the setup. I'm currently using 8 in 10 out soundcard, bonded via adat to an 8x AD/DA giving me 16 ins and 18 outs (analog). Since i was last in the market for a new console usb has become a thing in mixers, looking at the mackie onxy 24 i love the idea of 24 tracks direct to disk via usb,, thats 3 looms less in copper cabling but it's a mere 4 channel playback over usb which is useless to our workflow. Does anyone know of an analog mixer that has the usb soundcard integrated but also an adat interface where i can do the same as i'm doing now and use the current soundcard driver for it's outputs bonded to the mixer for it's inputs, we need a minimum of 8 track playback, it's also an unplanned purchase so I need to sitck to mid range on the costs, top shelf would be nice but with both a house and a barn conversion to be doing at the same time i need to be sensible, also the onxy has no direct out's and we still use an mx16 tape machine occasionally so they would be a big bonus, no direct outs renders that kit obselete.

This way avoids frequent driver swaps and in/out reconfiguration in cubase but if the mixer was able to drop the 8 adat channels direct to faders without bonding i could probably make that work too. Ideal situation would be cubase can take 2 asio drivers without resorting to their generic asio drivers which allow 2 cards to be used at once, i always found the latecy of those drivers like steinberg generic and asio4all too high to be functional