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Well, my experience with Audacity as a 'tracking' software is underwhelming and quite frustrating. I think it's a great tool for some final edits and so forth - but if you want to monitor tracks while recording new tracks, it really doesn't have a good latency management system in place and ends up being quite frustrating. With PowerTracks Pro Audio at only $49 (and other similarly priced products on the market) that can offer so much more than Audacity, those hours of frustration that you'll save with PTPA or N-Track or other similarly priced product will be more than worth the $49 investment.



Understood, Scott.
I was first introduced to Audacity as an adjunct to PowerTracks Pro Audio. It handled pure digital audio, while PTPA managed sequencing, multi-tracking, and MIDI chores.

A prolific songwriter/recording artist - Jimi Pocius - uses Audacity as his main digital audio workstation...
http://www.songplanet.com/artists/bands/1172/
http://indieheart.com/Jimi_Pocius/
...multi-tracking, mixing, mastering - the whole enchilada.

What one needs to grasp in order to use Audacity successfully, is that it has been designed to function on all three major platforms: Mac, Windows, and Linux. Hence, it contains none of the assumptions that single-platform software tools incorporate, and this can be disconcerting at first. Once the program is approached from this point of view, its native capabilities become apparent.

just looking for clues...
Oren.
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