 Some music producers and musicians still prefer working with the sound of vintage analog recording equipment despite the additional costs and difficulties involved.Large format analog multitrack machines can have up to 24 tracks on a tape two inches wide which is the widest analog tape that is generally available.Prototype machines, by MCI in 1978, using 3" tape for 32 tracks never went into production, though Otari made a 32 track 2" MX-80.