hey thanks for the listens and the comments folks!
as far as recording myself, moving between Live and PT makes it pretty easy...
some guitar and bass playing, looping, importing into Live....very fun.
i'm mainly a keyboardist, so that is natural
used a ton of Native Instruments stuff as well
and some Alan Watts quotes too
also, i totally agree - Bigwig is great. very robust now, and affordable. i've got a PT rig so i'm pretty immersed in that world, but i also like to use Logic. there's so much to choose from now...
i've heard great things about FLstudio; it's PC only as i remember, and i'm a Mac guy...
cheers!