[Wrecked944]

The singer from my old punk band is convincing me we need to record a punk rock Christmas album. So I cranked up the audio recording section of my PC (circa 1999) and found that most of my software needs to be re-installed to conform to the hardware changes I've made over the past five years. Basically, I have Cakewalk 7.0 on there as well as an ancient midi-to-wav batch converter called WavMaker and a notation application called Noteworthy Composer. These apps were clunky but produced perfectly good results for our last recording. But since I need to re-install and reconfigure them all anyway, I figure I might as well consider replacing them with newer technology.

Sooooo...is ProTools worth the price? I have a decent sound card so I kind of think I would only need the software version. Is there something better out there? Can I use it to write drum and bass parts using regular music notation and can it convert midi files to high quality wav files?

BTW - I'm running Win2000 on a 1Ghz CPU with 1G of RAM.