[A6] PLEASE help me!!! i am desperately trying to find out how to design my new (home)studio!!! :-)

[vivalamarcha at web.de]

hi,

i know, this has not DIRECTLY to do with the A6 but still: i want to 
integrate this fabulous machine which i bought one year ago in my new 
studio.

now the problem where i need advise since i am in no way an expert of 
this matter (design of a recording solution).

i now run all my old and new! analog and other synths (9 in all with 
multiple outs...) with an old powermac 8100 (with samplecell2) and a 
vision!! (yes cavemen still are amongst you!) sequencer. i record all 
this through a yamaha AW4416. this thing is great, but it is quite 
difficult to route several external effects through it and it is bnot 
easy to sync it with my sequencer as the mac is pretty slow etc...

so i think to be really flexible, i need another solution. i was 
thinking about a new mac with a RME 9652 aquisition card and maybe 
later a TC powercore and or a UAD 1 DSP card. until now, everything 
sounds great (quite expensive already!!) but: i need many AD ins thus 
a big or two! converters and those seem to be REALLY expensive. and 
to control all these features through my only mouse doesn't seem the 
ultimate solution either. so there seems to be a solution : mackie 
control etc.. etc. which sets you back another 1500 euros....  plus 
if i buy a new mac, i will have to shred my old OPCODE studio 5LX 
(serial interface... or are there serial interface cards?...) which 
is great as it is a midi patchbay in its own right...

i mean, is it impossible to somehow assemble a great virtual studio 
(24 analog ins) with real time plug in treatment, mastering, midi 
sequencing and the use of external effects etc.  for less than 10000 
euros (not counting the outboard equipment)?
can anyone help me here with his or her experiance  or got a great solution?

thank you all in advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! save a life!!

a desperate

oliver