MD is not a difficult format at all... One just needs to wrap ones head around the process once, and from there's it's easy-peasy-nice-and-sleezy!

Use Cooledit to record through the soundcard input, (agian, Line In, -NOT- the Mic input) and you can save them as easily workable MP3 files... (Or anyother format that blows cool air up yer kilt) From there, you can multi-track add stuff to them... do basicaly anything you'd expect a recording studio to be able to do.. (Provided you have all the plug-ins for CoolEdit... and they're available bootlegged all over the internet...)

MD is not hard... it's just not as "Plug-And-Play" as it seems a lot of this microsoft world would have it be...