School Has Too Much Gear!, Way too much gear, but not enough inputs Options

[MFourie]

Hi,

I'm teaching at a school in London and have taken it upon myself to get their studio working, but it's proving to be a monster task!

Here's the thing: they have SO much otboard gear
(Yamaha multi fx x2, 8 track digital recorder, digitech Quad 4, graphic eq, A3000 synth, CD / Tape recorder, Behringer Composer Pro [gate/lim/comp])
running into a 48 track Eurodesk, BUT then running a stereo out to 1 computer line in!

I'm thinking: as the school has no funds for upgrading I could sell some gear and get a decent soundcard and a mic or two. They're mostly recording vox, guitar, bass, drums as well as sampling.

Any ideas on soundcards for this sort of setup?

I have to use Cubase as a platform as that is the program that all the kids are learning in the ICT rooms.

Any ideas / suggestions would be MUCH appreciated!
Thanks in advance!!!