[scottmandue]

I know we have a few pro and semi pro musicians on the board so here goes.

First, I'm a total hack/armature musician with a day job so this is for an inexpensive hobby.

A year or so I picked up a new middle of the road PC just to use as a word processor, I would like to use that as a base (Pentium with Vista but thinking of upgrading to 7)

I have taken to listening to electronic music on the airplane... it helps me sleep and drowns out the sound of crying babies and people discussing their hemorrhoid operation.

I thought it might be fun to do up some music on my own.

So I'm going to need some software, and maybe an input card for the computer in case I want to mic something or input a keyboard/guitar. Also the ability to sample sounds.

Mac makes a fine machine but I want to do this with my existing PC.

Like I said this is just a hobby I'm not looking to become DJ scottmandue

Thanks in advance