Cheap way to record more than 12 tracks?

Hi all!
I´m looking for a lo-cost solution to record more than 12 tracks simultaneously. While 12 tracks is enough for most of my projects, I do some occasional live gig recordings where I take the feed from FOH mixing desk direct outs to my M-Audio FW1814 interface. More often than not 12 tracks is not enough so I am forced to leave out some channels, which I hate to do.
However I don´t want to pay the extra cash for Logic Pro, since outside the track number restriction, the features of LE are more than sufficent for my needs.
So I am thinking of using some other multi-track software for live recordimg and then exporting the tracks to LE for editing and mixing.
Audacity claims to support up to 16 simultaneous tracks, but I haven´t been able to achieve that. I could be doing something wrong, since the documentation doesn´t really shed any light on the subject. Does anyone here use Audacity for multi-track recording?
Any other alternatives? Keep in mind that I don´t really need any fancy features outside the recording itself.

what version of LE are you using?
i think that version 7.2 up'd the simultaneous IO of
LE.
I don´t think so. I browsed through the "New features in LE 7.2" document ( http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/NewFeatures_in_Logic_Express7.2.pdf )and didn´t find any mention about i/o. I´m using 7.1.1 or whatever the last update for 7.1 was.
As NoEQ has mentioned M-Powered Pro Tools is at your
disposal. If you search the internet you can find
the academic version (included the dv toolkit) for
$150 dollars.
The problem is that I live in Finland and I doubt there´s any academic versions for sale here. And 150$ is still a bit much for me. This gig recording thing is really just a hobby for me, so I don´t want to put too much money (which I dont have anyway...) in it.
you could just as easily send some of the tracks off
the board to a bus and then record a sum of the bus
and some out of the direct outs.
Yeah, I´ve done that couple of times and it usually works fine, to be honest. But it is still a bit frustrating to not have the whole capacity of my hardware in my disposal, just because of an artificial software restriction.
But thanks to everyone that have participated in this thread. I´m still considering my problem unsolved, so feel free to chime in.

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