I am drawing on my experience with Protools and other DAWs Mark. This isn't a personal thing or a statement about what it takes to make a good record. It's a statement about what makes a good DAW. A lot of people out there hear the word Protools tossed about and love to slam it because it's out of their price range and because they think they can buy a $400 software package to run on their home PC and waalaa, their dream DAW is born. This is simply not the case. I don't work for Digidesign. If their product was garbage you can believe I'd be onto the next great thing.