Thanks for the followups. I installed a cheap sequencer yesterday...
Cakewalk's Music Creator - and quickly realized something: I'm
probably hardly going to be using MIDI at all. Both the synths I have
at the moment are monotimbral, and one (a Jupiter) isnt even Midi
capable at all. The vx plus gtr are going to be digital audio, so now
it seems to me we're really talking about which is the better way of
recording digital audio. The multitrack I was considering (Zoom
1266CD) has a 20 gig HD, which is bigger than the computer's anyway -
though I suppose I would have to basically buy a new compyuter if I
decided to go down that route, so the cost would be about the same.

At the moment the only thing which is swinging me towards the computer
option is the easier editing (no matter how logical a menu system is,
it's not going to be as easy to do on a little LCD screen), and the
possibility that one day I might have a use for MIDI even if I don't
at the moment.

Les Cargill wrote in message
I record about equal parts synths and guitar (acoustic). Portability
is not an issue, as I am disabled now and basically housebound.

I'd disagree - especially for acoustic guitar. You could have
specifically built spaces for tracking, so I'd be wrong then, but
in a house, recording acoustic guitar means you'll need a very low
noise space. If you're operating the transport and playing, this
is a consideration.

What transport do you mean? It's a digital HD recorder. It's not going
to be noisier than a PC with three fans running, is it?

Actually - possibly sacrilege here, I'm sorry - but I'm really not
very fussy about a bit of background noise. I think I'm a bit of a
medium-fi artist Actually someone asked to remaster all my oldest
4 track songs onto CD, and he rolled off the tape hiss. I asked him to
put it back!


With softsynths, my understanding is that you eventually 'render' the
final tracks. My guess is you'd probably need some sort of ROMpler to
get the tracks in MIDI form, then render 'em.

Well, you'd need a MIDI keyboard. I don;t think you need any samples
other than the software ones in the plug-in.

Thanks again for the feedback.

J.