Essentially I'm looking for a simple home studio program for my pc thats easy to get the hang of, something that will let me record guitar and vocal tracks and create drum tracks.


Any recommendations?

I use ableton and reason
but I had no choice

Something like this?
Cakewalk

Doesn't look like it works with VST though, according to what I read down the bottom.

I would recommend one of the cheaper versions of Cubase, as they work with the more widely-available VST plugin system. I have a non-legit copy of Cubase SX3, and I like it

Well, no, but it was Steinberg that invented VST, so ....

If you need VST then cubase is the way to go

Make sure you have a decent ASIO soundcard too, and you're set.

But he did ask for simple ....

There was a piece of software available on the AtariST years ago, called Notator I think, that was pretty cool. Anyone know if there's a PC equivalent?

VST are supported.

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Ableton Live, perhaps? You could also get a free version of AcidXpress, too. But those you don't really make the drums, you just paste the loops. Maybe see if Making Waves records these days? That was a good freeware sequencer that did drums and shit.

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ableton live is the only thing that looks good enough for me
I like to try and drum with my fingers sounds so ridiculous is fun
i use reason and make horrible tracks everytime I´m mad
I´m gonna compile them and call "horrible music to scare your friends"