If you're just starting out (I'm guessing that cause you said 'getting started') why would you want to pay for software if LE came with something you bought?
Yes... use LE.
Cubase LE has a ton of features and functions that you will probably never even use.
If you do run into limits (like...
If you look on the Cubase LE CD, there are a couple of manuals.
One is 'getting started', and the other is a more detailed manual.. might even be a hundred or so pages.
I printed them, put em in a binder, read them... and have to re-read them soon i think. lol
As for the ASIO driver... if...
Yeah, mixdown each track to a *.wav file. Once you have the WAV files on your HD, create an audio CD using whatever software came with your CD burner (Nero, Sonic RecordNow, etc..)
Hmmm.
If you want to record live.. you could probly buy a small mixer (Alesis, Behringer, Tapco)
If you want to be able to record more multitrack stuff, you could maybe get a tone port of something comparable.
I recorded this song...
from: http: // www . techspot . com/reviews/hardware/pixelview_mx400/
(* web site not a link... i'm not allowed to put em yet -- newb stuff. :-)
... If that's your card, it does look like there is only one place for the monitor, but you could use an old TV as a second monitor (as long as it...