hey there, audacity is a decent program, that is very simply done, and might not work well for you, but for what its worth, (free) its an amazing program, (and its slowly developing, as far as i know though)
now theres another program that ive found to be very simple AND well done
as a multitracker and i highly recomend it. you can see its in my signiture
but here:
http://www.cockos.com/reaper/ -------its called reaper,
im very into the free software thing and this may suit you.
what may be a downfall is:
its only for windows...for now i think, and the editing is alittle limited.
but other than that, it suits my needs amazingly well.
hey, you cant loose anything by trying it, both programs are free just for that reason, no there isnt support, but at the same time there is:
Check out their forums, and theres almost always someone who can help you out with an issue.
oh any btw reaper is only about 1 mb, so your hard drive has nothing to loose either!
-hw