[orca-list] I'm ready to completely convert except for one major? thing

["Chris Gilland" <cgilland1 carolina rr com>]

Literally speaking, there is really only, for the most part, one incredibly 
major thing which is keeping me from switching 100% to the Linux platform. 
If someone would be willing to help steer me in the right direction, I 
literally could be a total convert by the end of the week, at the rate we're 
going.  This is so promising it's not funny!  The only? thing that really is 
truely stopping me is, as I stated before, I am a professional musician.  I 
get pad for my music... it's my job.  Right now, I'm using a keyboard which 
I have midied to my desktop audio production machine, which right now's 
running both xp pro Corporate sp3, as well as Wubu, which has been converted 
to vinux with the Vinux scripts.  In xp, I use both Soundforge 8.0, and 
Sonar 7.0 Producer Edition.  Being that I am not just a vocalest, but also 
am a country pianest, I don't want to let the tallent that god gave me go to 
waiste.  If I convert to Linux, I'm scared I will not have any good audio 
multi-track recording sollution.  Yeah, there is audacity, but my thing with 
Audacity is, I don't think you can create full blown midi sequences with it, 
can you?  I know you can save in the midi format, say, convert a midi to 
mp3, or say, make a horrendously hallacious! good for absolutely nothing! 
piece of crap in my results at least, version of an mp3 to a midi file, but 
that is not what I want to do.  Not even close!  I want to be able, using my 
keyboared, just like in Cakewalk, to be able to sit down, bang out a full 
fledged sequence multi-tracked of me playing, say piano, strings, guitar, 
base, and maybe drums, then be able to on top of that midi sequence, be able 
then to multi-track with my microphone my lead vocals, and maybe some very 
light backing harmony.  If you all would like to hear something I did under 
Windows with sonar, to give you an example of what type music I wish to make 
in Linux, let me know.  I've probably got an mp3 around here somewhere I 
could share off list.  I'm just not sure how to do this.  I've heard of 
rosegarden, but obviously that I think, is QT based, so pretty much, forget 
it.  I also know of Jokosher, I think it's called, but I couldn't figure out 
how to get that darn thing to work to save my life, and it didn't seem like 
it could do midi input, although it's very likely it will and I didn't 
experiment with it enough.  I know this is not exactly! Orca related, so to 
tie it back into Orca, the main thing is, I need something productive that 
would be doable with Orca, and may I add, could be done efficiently with 
little to no work hardly at all.

I'd be interested if there are any blind musicians on here who have recorded 
in Linux.  I know some of you all've done podcasts, so you all can't 5tell 
me we don't have any audio guru Linux savvy people on here.  I just need 
someone  who is patient who could get me started.  I'm great at figuring 
things out on my own, and also on reading documentation, etc. so if you at 
least could get me started, and at least show me the very very basics of the 
program you suggest, I can probably take it from there.

Thank you profusely! for any help.  I can't wait for some responses to come 
in either on or! off list.

God bless.

Chris.