Bar none, this is the best bang for the buck recording available today. 24 tracks of crystal clear audio with MIDI. 

Here are the keys to its value:

Usability - As good as any anywhere near the price range.

Capabilities- unparalleled for the money.

The card costs less than a $1000 and with a thousand dollars of PC or Mac equipment you are making CDs, Net Broadcasts, Streaming Video, the audio portion of a Music Video.  And if you have a couple of thousand to spend on a PC, all the better. The possibilities are endless. 

Oh, and you need a microphone too.

And a PC remembering every mix that decide is worthy of saving so you can come back whenever you want and tweak it from there, you don't even have to be a producer to sound good. 

AND, you don't have to be a great musician to sound good. The Digi001 allows you to record any length of a song part, say a verse, and then loop it for you so you get more than one chance at getting it just right. THEN, the Digi001 makes it easy to select the best parts of multiple takes and seamlessly assemble them into a "best of" take. 

Then you can take, say, a chorus that was seemingly impossible to get just right, and turn it into not only a non-problem to get each part sounding just right, but when you get it right once, you can duplicate the final version to everywhere it is used in the song.

Digi 001 is a complete audio/MIDI, hardware/software solution in one box. Digi 001 comes packed with all the I/O options you need - eight analog inputs, eight analog outputs, eight channels of ADAT optical I/O and two S/PDIF I/O channels - all at 24-bit resolution. It also comes with a one-in, one-out MIDI interface built in, a footswitch input for QuickPunch control, and an additional pair of analog monitor outputs and a headphone output with separate volume control. Two of the eight analog inputs on Digi 001 include high-quality microphone pre-amplifiers with gain control and phantom power, reducing the need to incorporate a separate mixer. Instead, you can plug in an instrument or microphone, set the levels and start recording!

The DIGI 001!!!!!!!!