🚀 go-pugleaf

	As regards Cakewalk pro: it's fine as far as midi sequencing
	goes (although I'd hardly call "CAL" particularly powerful as
	one poster indicated). It has no capacity for digital audio
	at all however. What you want is something like the pc-equivalent
	of Digital Performer. There isn't much for the PC in that regard
	of at least there wasn't a year ago when I was last looking.
	There is a product called "Cubase Steinberg" or maybe it's
	"Steinberg-Cubase". At any rate it was, last I checked, one of
	only two pc-based sequencers with digital-audio capability.
	I don't beilieve that it has as many digital audio tracks as
	you wanted (maybe only four...maybe somebody else who actually
	uses it could tell you) but even so, it's not too difficult
	to bounce tracks down to four "real" tracks in a final mix 
	anyway. 

	Any sequencer that has digital audio capability is going to
	be expensive. (Over $1000). 

	It's possible depending on what card you're using to get
	something like turtlebeach's Quad which is supposed to 
	be able to link up to four digital audio tracks to a midi
	sequence. However, I haven't had great sucess (haven't tried
	too hard to sort out the problems I had just demoing it though)
	with it and at the least you must realize that it merely calls
	your external apps (your sequencer, not included, which you
	specify; and your .wav player, also not included, which you
	must specify). It merely synchs the two apps together. Obviously
	this provides no simultaneous editing window which is a big
	drawback. 

	There is supposedly one other digital audio/sequencer besides	
	Cubase for the pc.

	I'd personally like to hear from anybody who has more info on
	either product. (All of the above is gleaned from an old
	Electronic Musician article and what people I've spoken to
	have told me).

	good luck