Nah, I'd recomend against that sorry mate.... all ACiD is about is rearranging other peoples samples (with no modifications made) to make up a track. No real musical knowledge required. Fruity Loops is a step up (though, it's still not a *serious* piece of software) because of it's ability to generate noises from scratch, completely transform existing samples etc.

well give me some GOOD free software thats user friendly and will record my songs effectively. i use my own samples, all original music. i use soulseek (zyberdaddy) if any of you want to contact me

Each to his own then, ACiD obviously meets your needs. I take it you use ACiD express then? (as opposed to the un-free version)

ACID Xpress sucks hairy ass. I recently downloaded it just to see how it works. and it really pisses me off how little control I actually have over sequencing and other stuff. I gave up after a few days trying it out.

seriously, there is probably 2 freewares that are actually good, Protool Free and Super collider.

but looking at zyberdaddy's situation, Ableton live should be a good software to look into.

http://www.ableton.com/index.php?main=news

I'm starting to really njoy Ableton Live for gigs, but I'd never use it for making actual tracks.

And believe me- you're cool!

I've just heard Spark did his entire new album on Ableton live which was a shock!

Here you can listen some of my music
http://www.realmusic.ru/andrei_sava/
&
http://www.realmusic.ru/muzonus/

Moldova

Just a thought...is it possible that you're using a trial or non-full version of your software? That might limit what you can do and make it seem like you're only getting samples.