Recording software (which one?)

[r4m]

Bill, I should have paid more attention to your post. Looks to me like the Layla does not have a phantom power button on the box (no button to push), and I agree I don't see it listed in the specs anywhere:
http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/Discontinued/Layla24/layla24_both.jpg
http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/Discontinued/Layla24/specs.php

You COULD buy an external phantom power supply like these:
http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/Discontinued/Layla24/specs.php

But I imagine if you are mic'ing drums you probably have 4 or 5 mics to power up?

Paul

Paul
Yea that is the older Layla that I have.  What I did was run my condenser mics into a small Yamaha mixer and aux out to my Layla. That would power my condenser mics. Think I was using 2 or 3 condensers at the time and a sm57 and a few other non-condenser mics. But it seemed hard to get a good signal level. Gonna mess with it some more now this weekend. I'll keep ya posted.
thanks everybody!

[vad1er]

Try Riffworks T4 it is free 

If you like it you can buy it for around a hundred bucks. building on the timeline you can make individual rifftracks any size you want. 4,8, 16 bars then when you have a few riffs drop them on the timeline in any desirable order.. I use cubase for all mastering and final builds but RW is my tool for brainstorming. REALLY it is the easiet no brainer software out there to use.
RW standard has a few more options than T4 like.. Rewire, rex-player more tracks per riff ect.

[Jeff Rozak]

I use RiffWorks T4 for brainstorming as well.    I love the simplicity of it, the drag-n-drop song structure, and NOT HAVING TO PROGRAM DRUMS!!  LOL  It's perfect for a guitar player like me who needs to get things (even short incomplete ideas) recorded quick so as not to forget them.  Programming drums just to jam to always made me lose all motivation, so this is perfect.  I do usually rerecord everything in another program at full-length however, but for getting the ideas down, it's awesome. 

[Gerk]

Riffworks is fun ... it doesn't run properly on my OSX machine with 6 monitors though   The devs were pretty cool though and they ended up refunding me when they couldn't resolve the issues.