New With ??? About My Set Up Options

[torchsong]

Hi, new girl here with lots of questions about hardware and software.
I've read just about everything I can that is somewhat related to my situation but still have ????

I am a cellist and vocalist and want to make backing tracks to play with live and also make demo recordings on my computer. I come from the portastudio school of home recordings so the MIDI stuff is making me nuts!

Here's what I have:
imac running OS 9.2
DX7
Boss DRmkII
Behringer Eurorack
MOTU Fast Lane
Metro 5
OMS 2.3.8 grrrrrrr.....
cello with pickup (although I usually am miked for studio recording)
guitars
cables

I've tried to keep the basic set up simple but am having problems with OMS I think. Metro doesn't seem to like to work with Free MIDI.
I am also having problems playing back audio after recording a track, how am I supposed to hear what I've played to do over dubs?

BTW, I downloaded Pro Tools Free to try it out and just can't get the thing to open (memory error 1,010) so I gave up and went with Metro instead because it was inexpensive to start.

Thanks for any help, this is a great site!

[Levon River]

Good on 1-4. But you earlier said: "...the MIDI stuff is making me nuts!" and: "...am having problems with OMS I think." I still have absolutely no idea how that is translating into actual practice if you've done 1-4 with OMS. What problems are you having? Recording MIDI information into Metro? Playing back a MIDI track and having it drive the DX-7?

I'd love to help you, but, I'll say it again: specifics are what is needed if there's going to be any chance of helping you. Saying "what I really need help with is the @#$ software" is about as broad a statement as you can make. Is this with some aspect of the MIDI functions in Metro, or with the audio functions, or both? If both, separate them out and say specifically what you are trying to do and specifically what happens (or doesn't happen )when you try to do *that*.

Then we'll get all over it like white on rice and have you cookin' in no time.

Whaddaya say? Want to provide some actual clue to what the problem is? You're going to have to, because my crystal ball got broke when I tried to dribble it.