Audio interface being a 24 track...?

I have a Tascam 24 track mixer, can i hook it up to my computer via a midi cable and use it for my overall interface needs? Will it be professional quality? good quality? bad quality? has anyone tried this?
Help please,
Thanks

That kind of depends on whether the Tascam mixer you have is actually an interface.
Tascam has been making mixing consoles since 1971, IIRC, and only made A/D interfaces for the past twelve years or so.
You can get an expansion card for something like the DM-3200 digital mixing console ( http://tascam.com/product/dm-3200/ ) to turn that into a 24-channel audio interface. Total cost around $4200, excluding taxes. I suspect this is not what you're talking about.
Or do you have something like the M-2524 - a 24-channel analog console with MIDI muting? That's a mixer, not an interface, and there is nothing you can do to turn it into an interface. You can use MIDI to remotely mute individual channels, but that doesn't give you digital audio.
MIDI is just control data, not an audio signal.
You can, of course, +hook up+ the mixer to an audio interface, and use the console to route up to 24 channels down to however many busses/outputs the mixer has.
I use a Tascam M-2516 to route the 32 input channels (16 regular + 16 inline) to the 8 busses, which are hooked up to the eight inputs on one of my audio interfaces.
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I stumbled upon this thread in searching for some deeply hidden feature in Skype, but alas, there may not be a fix within Skype. I realize the parent topic is very old, but I hope this can hope anyone in need of a solution (or get skype to incorporate some sort of summing feature).
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4) Route or connect that output into Input 1.
0-5) For the love of all audio gods, make sure you are double checking to avoid feedback.
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