Renovation Project Stress, Hardware help needed Options

[emgcarra]

Hi all:

I have been recording at home for a while using the "normal" stuff: Mackie 24.8, interface and Mac.....Now I have this new Mac Pro w/Logic Pro 8 in it and still have my FW4410 M-Audio interface....I do have a bunch of synth modules and outboard as well, but I think it is time to update my set up.
I guess I´ll give all the old and bulky stuff away (Mackie, synth, outboard, adat, dat, etc) and will keep just the most beloved:
a couple fo modules, a rev and maybe a compressor....But I am going to need a mixer, but a small one. I guess I´ll need one that could act as an interface and as a small mixer...But this search is not an easy task.
I´ve been looking in the web for such a piece but with not success. Here´s where I need some of your help.
Any idea of how could I put this set up together ?
There´s a mini-mixer-interface waiting for me ?
If so, are their pre good enough to make a more than decent recording ?
I would like to make it a better looking space too, so I think I could move to a "better" interface and do some cosmetic changes but I can´t sell the house to do that........for obvious reasons.... So, I need help and I also know that this could be the place.
I´ll look forward to read your ideas....if any
Thanks a lot in advance

[emgcarra]

Well, Thank you all guys....!! Yes, it is a matter of thinking and doing it at ease ....
The vacuum cleaner is first thing.... Then I must admit, it is some kind of unconformity with the actual shape of thinks...
I guess I will go for a shure thing, may be an Ensemble or a TC Electronic Konnekt 48..Any of them still keep my good old
modules and reverb out of the set up...A friend told me about buying a good Pre + an interface card, in order to get a good sound into the cpu....but nothing about the XX century devices...!
I have also saw an Alesis mixer-interface, an M-Audio and even a Roland.....But all they give me that toy look or a sense of going back...somehow.

Well thanks again for your input, I promise to post some material made with the new stuff, whenever I could get it going...

Mac Music is still a good start point