I haven't used a porta-studio beyond my Tascam 246 cassette based 4-tracker with 6 channel mixer... fine unit for it's day. But looking at the more modern digital porta-studio's, they always seem to come bundled with DAW recording software. I'd imagine that whatever package could allow you to transfer your porta-studio tracks into a PC with whatever bundles DAW software, so no need to fret about getting additiona software to convert anything...that is, unless you want to buy the FULL version of the DAW software, in which the bundles never give you.