this? Bad Gear - The Notorious Beat Thang - YouTube
… but seriously, it would be nice if my PC wasn’t running when i record my music …
Most of them are focussed around clip based workflow, I know some can do linear as well, but also stuff like latency, inability to sync to midi or put out an accurate midi clock (I know there are solutions to this, but again not worth it, considering my use case)
I have a few DAWs but don’t enjoy using them, getting multi channel audio into them, synced, without latency etc is such a ball ache. If the Bluebox had proper audio editing it would be perfect, for my needs. It syncs well to and from midi, can record multiple inputs without latency, has bar display, but no editing.
MPC/Force on paper can do it, but in reality the midi clock is not tight enough as master, and non existent as slave, it actually drops out of record after less than 1 second. I queried it with Akai, and they suggested to use a DAW 
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Zoom R24 ? they’re still available new unused somewhere.
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Ive got the Zoom R24 and it works brilliantly for a non dawless 8 track recorder.
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