Thanks for the feedback so far. I had heard that Deck LE was buggy but I'm interested. Also, Carl, I thought maybe one of those Zoom four trackers was a good way to go, as far as ease of use and minimal setup time, but it may be more convenient in the long run to record straight into the computer since if you use Doggiebox they're going to be coming from there anyway, Any other opinions are welcome. Basically I am coming from Cubase VST and the LM4 drum plug-in which were great for electronic music but pretty horrible for trying to record live stuff when you get a good idea and just want to sketch something out. The LM4 had a horrible way of creating kits compared to Doggiebox, although I know it's been updated. I guess I can more or less use LM4 kits in Doggiebox if I manually compile them, because they're just WAV's and AIFF's. Michael
Well, I've done a little bit, making demos of my songs for my band. I convert my drum track to an .aiff file and then either play out into my Fostex four-track or the ProTools Free eight-track I downloaded some time back from the manufacturer. It's been very nice and sounds pretty good. Hope to tinker some more with this over the next few months--I finally figured out how to do some simple fills, which makes a big difference! Plus, it's easier for me to work to an "actual" drum backing rather than play off of a click track.