You must not forget that if someone starts to get into home recording again, after decades, there may be tons and tons of problems to solve, with the hardware, with all that new software business, licensing stuff, installing managers etc., so there may only be a small slot of time for each task, as with this detail.
All i was saying is, please be nice to the forum noobs, there was no intention to annoy anybody here i'd say. And the Tascam M12 is actually very sophisticated. Saying this as an former user of a Tascam 244, where you basically just had to plug in your instruments and go. Thank you.