Thanks to everyone for the quick replies. I was pretty sure getting the tempo right would be the biggest problem. The finished wavs I’ve completed are not metronome accurate. There is a metronome feature in the 8 track recorder, but so far I haven’t figured out how to keep the taps from being recorded. Audacity may have something as well, not sure. Or perhaps the Adobe Audition sslechta mentioned might be a better option.

I’ve only recently gotten started with this project and only have a dozen or so complete songs. I’m sure starting over by recording all my tracks directly into BIAB or RealBand getting the tempo perfect from the beginning will probably be my best option.

The problem with recording tracks directly into Audacity is going through the laptop mic jack even with an external mic turns out poor audio quality, and I feel this may be the same with BIAB or RB. When I record all the tracts onto the external recorder and export as a wav file into Audacity the quality is much better, even though the old recorder is obsolete. I’ve been considering something like the TASCAM DR-05 cheap but at least it is digital.

I realize there must be a huge learning curve with these programs, and I don’t mind investing the time, I just want to make sure what I’m trying to do is possible with the products I bought, or if I’m going to need more pluggins, VSTs or if I need to buy anything else to get the real strings, real drums and the TC Helicon effect I'm playing all the instruments and singing all the vocals myself, these three effects are all I really need, especially the drums.

Here is the package I bought.:

http://www.pgmusic.com/bbwin.htm


Thanks again to Pat Marr and Video Track for the links. I’ll look them over before bugging the forum again.