It will all seem like voodoo at first. I spent a few hours messing with my first small Behringer mixer, and got it to work. A week later I forgot what the heck I did and took another few hours, and I think maybe an hour the third time. I now keep a notebook on settings, slider and pot positions, buttons etc. It can get a tad more complicated, for in my rig I have the keyboard out to the mixer, the keyboard with midi thru the computer and out to a Ketron SD2, AND, a mic in. So you had to change stuff and use headphones and wanting just to put in the vocal track for example, or balance my keyboard with that and record into band in a box..then try it with Audacity, then I got a power mixer which was huge and confusing, and now both those mixers are on the shelf and I have a Bose Tonematch thing ma bob, and that is a usb to the computer and once set up it was quite, well, intuitive compared to other stuff, or I learned a bunch.

Lots of guys here do the audio engineering end of things. I more like the guy in the bar playing the piano with my foot tapping to provide the click track.

And once the 6th decade dawns on you the learning curve seems steeper and you get out of breath.

John Conley
Musica est vita