1. Load your favorite song into Band-in-a-box from the country fakebook (700 songs!). Transpose to your favorite key and arrange the song any way you want in Band-in-a-box.

2. Save the song as a midi file and import it into MOTU Digital Performer. Render the midi instruments (on discrete channels) to audio using Sampletank. The instruments you are playing along with are now real high quality sampled instruments - not computer sounding!

3. Record your steel guitar playing along with all the other instruments.

4. Add professional effects like compression, EQ, delay, reverb, tube distortion, limiting, etc. to your steel and all other instruments individually.

5. Burn to CD.

This studio is absolutely awesome and would make a great starter studio for someone that wants to learn how to record using a computer Digital Audio Workstation with high quality processing capabilities and not have to pay $$thousands.
The reason I am selling is that I have upgraded to a larger studio.

The equipment:
iMac 800 Mhz / G3 /512 Meg RAM / 80 Gig HD
OS9 & OS X (10.1), Appleworks 6

MOTU 828 Firewire 8 channel digital audio interface
MOTU Digital Performer 3.01 (with disc) www.motu.com

IK Multimedia Sampletank 1.0 (with disc) www.sampletank.com

Band-in-a-Box for mac 8.0 (installed – no disc) www.pgmusic.com

VSC –88 Virtual Sound Canvas for mac (with disc) www.pgmusic.com

Country Fakebook 700 songs for Band-in-a-box (installed - no disc)

Terry