Okay, I've chosen my audio sequencer.  A few forum members were cool enough to steer me in the right direction.  I actually had an old copy of Cubase VST 5.1 laying around from when I first got into audio recording 5 years ago.  They told me that it should do everything I needed it to.

Well after a few days of searching, I finally found my dongle, so I was ready to fire up Cubase.  Now I remember why I ended up going with Vegas.  Cubase is a total bitch to learn!!!  It gives you the feeling that it can do so many things, but it also gives you the feeling that you are in for a nitemare of a learning curve.

The real point to using Cubase is its midi sequencer.  I'd love for Vegas to have  a sequencer, but reality seamed to shoot that idea down.  Either way, here I am in the middle of a giant latency problem and a number of other little problems that add up to be a giant pain in my ass. 

I have to admit that I'm not the most patient guy in the world and I've caught myself totally hating programs in the past while I was conquering the learning curve. (Adobe Photoshop springs to mind).

Either way, I'll keep everyone posted and we'll see how this venture in Steinberg Cubase 5.1 goes.

Brandon