Here is the Bull Goose Pro Logic 7 which, for $999 promises unlimited capabilities--this basically means that it allows you to do all of the above,and on a huge number of Macs, connected into a supercomputer," Colossus, The Forbin Project" style.

Music was one of the first areas where computers were widely used, so the technology is really developed--there are thousands of folks who work with this stuff professionally, and they do a lot of stuff that most of use are completely clueless about--I, for one, am a little vague on what anyone would need 128 stereo audio streams for--

The thing that is important for us is that the hardware and software for good quality recording, sequencing, and scoring is now down in the "anyone that wants it can have it" range--