A Little Audio To Get Strarted., Audio and midi control -Reason Options

[nyc_joe]

Hello, I downloaded the Reason demo for Mac OSX. I like it and had a blast using it in 20min spurts. How would one go about adding some audio tracks and using a midi kb to input notes and control the synths? I've been trying to come to some decision about the most economical way to proceed. A couple of years ago I used Multitrack on a Linux box. I got some stuff recorded but the techy part sapped most of my creative juices. I don't want another science project. I want to buy something and go. I only will add an audio track at a time so I was thinking digi001 might be the way to go since it has the mic pres and headphone out to monitor and mix( I share a small NYC apt. so I can't really mix to speakers ). But, as I said I dig Reason and want to find out if I could have the sequencer line up with audio tracks? What hardware and software would I need. TIA.

[Bart S.]

If your main goal is to have an audio sequencer that you can hook up with Reason (for audio recording), you shouldn't go with PT (Digi001). PT doesn't officialy support Rewire (a little app used to connect Reason to most audio soft: DP, Logic, Cubase...) and you would have to use a "workaround" app. called Refuse to make Reason and PT share the same hardware (Digi001, MBox, ...).
If you're new to DAW, you'd better choose softs such as DP or Logic. Now, as far as the hardware is concerned, it all depends on your budget...