@vasidudu
I had a look into the MOTU interfaces of course (I used to have the UltraLite MK1 long time ago) but they all don´t tick enough boxes of my checklist unfortunately. The possibility to chain them is nice of course but would end up being quite expensive and the UltraLite MK3 seems to be discontinued?
@CMOS
The Behringer digital mixer range was something that I looked into as well but I don´t have any experience with any of their digital mixers. I like their synths but I had an analog Behringer mixer that was straight up trash. To be fair it was from the XenyX range but I had two units of the same model and both had the same problem: they just switched off randomly without touching anything. Speaker popping included… So I´m not too keen to jump into their mixer range even though I never heard anything bad from the digital mixers.
This RCF mixer is similar in specs and prize and is also something that I looked into.
But still the PreSonus 24R or 32R seem to be the best bet of what I have discovered so far in terms of connectivity and versatility. I just wanted to make sure that I didn´t miss any obvious alternative before investing in it. Still a little annoyed about the price difference between the 24R and the 32R but it is what it is I guess. And I keep looking for B-Stocks but there are none available (only the 16 channel version at the moment). So either they don´t sell that well or they just don´t get returned as much.