The sound quality will be mainly decided by your skills, your recording room, the microphone and the audio interface to your computer (in roughly that order of importance). The software has very little bearing on the actual recording quality. However, decent software makes it easier to create the recordings you want. As I understand it, Mixcraft is a good starting point.

If you are planning to go into things seriously but don't want to invest too much money then I would highly recommend looking at Reaper. It is free to try, only $60 to buy for an amateur/semi-professional user yet it is up there with all the most expensive software when it comes to facilities. You will find it in many studios - including those that work at the highest level. There's a very friendly support forum and the developers are very responsive to issues.


James Perrett, JRP Music http://www.jrpmusic.net

Della Perrett's Sweetedge http://www.sweetedge.com