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.

[ryosode]

ummm... do you wanna give us some financial figures? How much are you willing to spend on this? From my perspective, if I were to recommend someone a least expensive audio setup (given you already have a OS X based Mac system and need a audio i/o, midi i/o, software and perhaps monitor speakers) that gives you a great tonality, the cost still exceeds $1000 dollars including both hardware and software...