Your experiences sound a lot like mine, Steve. Last Saturday 02 July 2005 07:38, Steve D was like: > I had put off learning anything about Ardour for a long time. I was > scared of its seeming complexity. ?However, by concentrating at first on > just the features that I needed to understand in order to record > something, it wasn't as hard as I thought. It will take time to learn > the program well though. Yes, I took my time getting round to looking at Ardour. I have found it very intuitive to use and as you say, you only need to know a limited set of functions to record and master a basic multitrack piece. I'm beginning to think of it as the audio equivalent to GIMP, rather than the Linux equivalent to ProTools. cheers, tim hall http://glastonburymusic.org.uk