The Song Fight Bulletin Board

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before.

http://www.mutools.com/products.html

MU.LAB is an alternative, state of the art software application for OSX and Windows, transforming your computer into a rich virtual music studio!

It does not overwhelm you with a complex feature set, in which you can get lost.

On the contrary, MU.LAB is a user-friendly yet rock-solid musical tool designed to create, finetune and play Your Music!

MU.LAB's core feature set:
* Audio Recording & Playback
* MIDI Recording & Playback
* Flexible Composition & Sequence Editing
* Supports Audio and MIDI VST Plugins
* Powerful Audio and MIDI Plugin Routing (up to 100% modular if you want)
* Integrated high quality synths, samplers and effects
* High quality Audio Engine
* Sample Accurate Sequencing
* Available for OSX (Universal Binary) and Windows

MU.LAB Free (which is free to everyone!) has a 6 track limit and can only mixdown in 16 Bit. But be sure: a creative soul can do A LOT with that!

Sounds cool, Ken. I'm going to keep that link for friends that want to start computer recording but not ready to make the investment or just can't afford it. 6 tracks can be mixed to one stereo track until everything is recorded. Then just mix the 6 track chunks on a final mix.

I find that 6 tracks are really limiting, so I'd like to suggest an alternative:

REAPER -- fully functional even without registration, so you can evaluate it without restriction, and it's one of the most affordable pieces of software I know (at least the non-commercial license, at currently $50).
In short:

• 64 bit audio internally
• Works well with low-latency, multi-processor support
• Pretty cool 64 bit audio effects: unlimited multiband EQ and compressor, normal compressor, convolution reverb, algorithmic reverb, pitch shifting (high quality), multitap delay, graphical FIR filter (can do pretty much everything), noise gate, vocoder. Instruments: sample player, basic synthesizer, basic drum synthesizer. In addition: scriptable effects engine, including 100 or so quite usable scripts. Effects can be parallelized across networks. VST/VSTi/DX/DXi plugins can be used.
• Can be installed on USB sticks and is really lightweight (3.4 MB installer and that includes a Brad Sucks sample project). Starts up fast. Frequent updates.
• No artificial limits (unlimited tracks, extremely powerful routing)
• Powerful GUI (even if it takes some getting used to); manual exists. Many things are scriptable.
• On-the-fly resampling and en/decoding of many formats: WAV, OGG, FLAC, ACID, APE, WavPack, MP3 and others

In long.

REAPER is my music making thingy of choice. I'm not getting paid for this post.

I started using reaper about 2 months ago. It's great. I might have to check out MU.Lab just for fun though - you can never have too many toys to fool around with.