Hi all - Looking for a free easy to use recording software to record my favorate practice tunes!
I have tried Multitrack Studio but can’t get it to work as yet. 
I have been using the built in microsoft recorder but it records only for a minuite & the sound quality isn’t very good.
Tks for your help!
audacity might do just that, and it’s freeware http://audacity.sourceforge.net/index.php?lang=en
Second on Audacity. But a warning. It may be easy to initially use, but it gets more complicated as you try and control what you are doing.
THE MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do is reduce the default sampling rate from 32 bits to 16. Otherwise, unless you have a hellacious amount of RAM, you may freeze your computer while doing simple things, like saving. Voice of experience speaking here.
Check the preferences for AUDIO I/O and you will see some choices for sampling rates. Its much easier on Audacity for OSX (Macs) than the older because its says it. I think in the older it was like 32000 to 18000 or something. I have no idea what the PC window looks like.
You will also have to align your whole sound setup and correctly choose your input method and volume controls, both of your system and in the program itself. With Macs, you have to reset the volume every time you restart, which is tiresome.
It sounds hard, but its not really.
And, only select smallparts of your project to learn how to use echo and Freeverb. You can always undo those edits but its much less time consuming to experiment on one second of your work rather than the whole recording.
Good luck.
I don’t understand Freeverb(actually the new updated version has G-verb). I make changes to the room size and damping etc and I don’t see what they’re doing for me. And, I wish I could get it to sound even less reverb, like only a tiny tiny bit. The least I can do still sounds like I’m in a large room.
I use Audacity because it lets me easily export MP3s, but when I want serious stuff, I use Sound Forge. The LE version is about 50 bucks, and does almost everything the full ($700) version does.
Audacity tip - do NOT change the window while you’re recording. You will make dropouts, clicks, and pops. I haven’t had problems with sampling rate, but my PCs all run at least a gig of memory and a BIG hard drive, so that’s probably the reason.
I do like that it’s easy to play back and record simultaneously on Audacite.
Cheers,
Bill Whedon
Serpent Music
Well thank you. That helps. ( and I ask myself why I never saw this before)
Tks to all who replied, I have got multi track to work well. 
May try audacity from all the good comments in future.
Hope to post to Clips & Snips sometime…
Must go practice.