Hi Charles!
CB>    I'm almost sure I will invest in  Tascam 414 portastudio. [...]
CB> I mainly want to get it for practice, being a guitar player, I would like
CB> to lay down complicated chord progressions and then learn to solo over
CB> them and whatnot.
If you have a soundcard with a bearable sound quality, you could also try to 
get a sequencer program or even better "band in a box", which generates a 
whole band playing from the chords you have typed in in kinda text mode. It`s 
very easy to use and it`s definately lotsa fun practicing that way.
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