Thanks for the info. I've checked the sites out and they sound really good, but
so does Ardour and Audacity when you go to the sites. I don't think my problems
lie in the softwares as much as my ignorance of open source. The Debian stuff
caught my interest but I'm afraid I'll run into the same thing there. For
instance, after not being able to do what I wanted in Audacity, I tried editing
in Ardour and it worked great. So I saved the file as an Ardour file. The next
day I wanted to play around with it some more so I opened Ardour and started a
new file and it wouldn't let me. Gave me a message about the preferences not
being set right or something. So I closed it and double clicked on the file I
had saved the day before to get into it that way. Got the same message. I'm
running out of hair to pull out. :) My son, who knows more about it than I ever
will, says it's mainly because different programs will change the preferences to
work for them. He says if
someone took the time to write the commands into the kernel where it controlled
the preferences for the programs based on the computer's hardware, it would
probably help things run smoother. At least, that's what I think he said. We
talked about it for over an hour and I might have absorbed 2 minutes worth. Too
many brains cells gave their life for me to have fun in my youth.