Hi Hamish, I would recommend installing a DAW oriented distro. Demudi has been recommended in the different forums as the easiest way to setup a studio. The reason is that all other music oriented distros (Planet CCRMA, Thac's packages) need to be installed on top of a general purpose distribution. I've recently installed Demudi and it's been a painless proccess generally. It's based on Debian, so you can add general purpose packages to your "audio PC" at a later date. According to the website, it's happening very soon.. Dunno, but I can recommend this forum for this kind of info, it's great: http://www.music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user/ Also could be of help for making a final decision on which distribution to install.. Cheers, Alex _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.com/