On Fri, 2004-10-15 at 06:34, Richard E Miles wrote: > How do you expect anyone to know all these answers? Are you to lazy to use > google to search for these things? > -- > Richard E Miles > Federal Way WA. > registered linux user 46097 That seems a bit harsh to me. Google's a good start for doing your own research, but there's nothing like drawing directly on others' experience. And no-one has to give answers to every question to supply a helpful response. Anyway, my contribution: > 5. PROTOOLS > Okay, I know this is REALLY pushing it, but how about ProTools and > Logic. I use them both on my Mac. I realize I cannot take them with > me, but are there any professional quality applications out there for > MIDI and hi-end recording There's always ardour (http://ardour.org/). It seems extremely capable but is absolutely not for the faint-hearted, In use it is reasonably intuitive, but it is quite complex to install.The easiest way is probably to use the the PlanetCCRMA repository (http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/).