Mick, I've tried multi-track recording on my computer, and it's close to impossible. The problem with recordings (as opposed to MIDIS) is, you have to lay one track on another and the timing right. Can't have person B singing a quarter after person A sings. This can be done with WAV files, but takes a lot of monkeying around.

Then there's the problem with recording in the first place. Inless the main track is recorded with a metronome, and the next people to record have one and set it at the same tempo, the timing will be messed up. I have to listen to the first track while I sing. The only way I've found to let me listen and record at the same time is to put the first into Real Audio with RealProducer, and record my subsequent tracks with WAV recorder. Then I still have to do the cutting down and hit-and-miss combining, but if the rhythm is OK, all I have to worry about is the start.

My ancient version of Cakewalk will let me import WAV files, but not edit them. There may be a program out there that's made specifically for recording live music, but I don't know what it is. There has to be something less complicated that what I try to do!

I think you have a grand idea!