You really should take a hard look at Reaper. A fully licensed version for non-commercial use (which is identical to the 'commercial' version) is only $60.00.

You can also download an entirely uncrippled and untime-limited demo to use until you think it is a worthwhile purchase.

There is one huge differnce between the full version and the demo: the demo loads with a 15 second 'nag' screen that tells you how many days you've been demoing it. Of course, I'm being facietious ... about the "huge difference," that is. Really, I know no other software maker as confident in their product to offer it entirely as shareware on the honor system!

Reaper has the most comprehensive routing scheme of any DAW ... including the $500.00 plus ones.

It fully supports mixing midi and audio on each and every track and each and every track can send or receive from any other track.

It also has a support network as fine as the one here.

While I use Cubase as my DAW ... and I love it ... were I just starting out, didn't have a big investment in learning Cubase and know what I know today about sequencers, it would be Reaper without a doubt.

Prado

Last edited by Prado; 02/10/10 09:19 PM.