About seven years ago, I bought a Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) 2408 to do some home recording on my PC. The MOTU on my PC was easily the worst piece of technology I’ve ever owned. And communicating with their unicorn-loving tech support was an exercise in pain and endurance that would make a 12-hour call to a New Delhi call center seem like a walk in the park.

That said, I ran a nice little DAW program called ‘Cool Edit Pro’, which had a gentle learning curve and a surprisingly rich feature set. When my hard drive crashed, though, I had to upgrade my software, and was disappointed to discover that Cool Edit had been purchased by Adobe and rechristened ‘Audition’. I bought the new version from Adobe, and discovered that it was a crash-tastic piece of software that seemed to specialize in making my PC freeze irrevocably. Using Audition in combination with the MOTU was about as pleasant as having your nuts chewed off by rats.

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