> IMO, the issue of multitrack > recording seems better left to dedicated multitrack recorders (Ardour, > ecasound).
I agree completely -- I haven't had time yet to try out ecasound, but Fernando showed me Ardour and it is beautiful. I'm very tempted to remove the "Record" option from Snd! As a bit of boring history, that dialog dates back to the SGI days, and was ported to Linux at a time when Soundblaster cards were about as good as you could get; I was trying at the time to fill an obvious need.