One more thing: you should definitely look at the Reaper recording software: http://reaper.fm/ http://reaper.fm/ It has honorable pricing, an unlimited trial,

One more thing: you should definitely look at the Reaper recording software: http://reaper.fm/ http://reaper.fm/ It has honorable pricing, an unlimited trial, and every feature you could ever need. It's particularly well suited for the kind of stuff you're doing: it has ripple editing, automatic alignment of repeated takes and so on. Can't recommend it enough. Make sure to read the manual though, it uses the mouse buttons in an unusual way.