Terry & Donny,

Were you connecting your keyboards to the computers via a midi or usb cable, or were you doing directly through the sound card's line-in input jack? There's a major difference in the complexity of recording, depending on which source you select. Most everyone that has used either GoldWave or SoundForge XP 4.5 and connected directly from the keyboard's audio out to the computer's line-in have not had a problem. However, I have talked with lots of folks that used either the USB or MIDI connections and reported nothing but greif. Later on this evening, I'll put together a couple MP3's and post them on my website using the technique I described on Joe Waters forum http://psrtutorial.com/ . I'm using a Compaq Presario with a Pentium III 933 mhz processor and 128 megs of RAM. The sound card is the standard card that's part of the computer's motherboard--nothing special. I have tried other programs including Acid-Pro and Sonar, both of which are good programs, but they were not user friendly. Additionally, they did not work well with processors that were slower than 500 mhz and 128 megs of RAM was the bare minimum for nearly all of the programs released lately. I'm in the process of testing Aduacity for Windows and while it seems to be a bare-bones recording program, it may prove acceptable for what most of the musicians on the forum are hoping to achieve.

Gary