Playing music and recording it is essentially a pleasurable pass-time for me. I've been doing it for a long time. I began with a small Sony portable cassette recorder which was about the size of a large book. You can probably remember them. I was shocked to hear my own voice...as we all are the first time we hear it recorded. " oh no, I sound so Northern!.." well, I am you see, so it's not really surprising. Anyway, then when I saved enough (and when the price had come down sufficiently) I bought a cassette based 4 track Fostex porta-studio. I wore the poor thing out. Then the really big step was in the computer age...I obtained the legendary Cool Edit computer software, and then Adobe Audition 1.5 So far so good...but computer companies being what they are, made changes, seemingly just for the hell of it and everything 'went south' as they say. When I was forced to change to Windows10...I couldn't get the Adobe Audition programme to record anymore. It still works as a mastering/mixing programme fortunately. So now I record onto a stand alone audio workstation ...Zoom R-24 and transfer the recorded wav. files into Adobe Audition for mixing/mastering. At this moment in time...2021, this is what I use. I will continue to make my home recordings for as long as I can...until I can't fathom out how to use this ever changing and ever more complicated technology. In years to come, I guess that the home recording technology will be too complicated for me to use. I'm basically... a plug in, press record, dream away, press stop kind of guy at heart. The bottom line is...music is fun, not a competition. Have fun boys and girls.