OK. Reaper is the way to go. That's what I was thinking. Now I have used Audacity to make music with my Bass. As you can see on my sounCcloud. All my Bass Arrangements are dun with Audacity.

I don't know what you mean about audacity being awkward to use. I think it's the simplest, fully accessible straight out of the box basic multitrack recorder/editor there is. It just doesn't have realtime effects and a decent click, or measures, or any of the other tons of things that make life better for recording music. But just using it as a basic multitrack recorder to record several tracks, then crop the beginnings and ends, fade, pan, level, and export, I don't think it gets any easier than with audacity. You hit r to record a track, then hit r again to record a second track while listening to the first. Hit enter on both tracks to select them. Hit space til you get to just before the music starts, then hit right bracket, stop playback and hit delete to crop the start. When the music finishes, hit left bracket, stop playback, press shift end to  select any remaining audio, then hit delete: Cropping done. Hit left bracket a few seconds or whatever from the end of the music, hit shift end, then choose fade out from the effects menu: fading done. Then hit shift p on each track to pan left and right. Same goes for whatever shortcut adjusts volume. Add any post FX from the effects menu. Choose export from the file menu, name and save, and your done. How could you simplify that process any more? Really, I'm not being sarcastic or argumentative, I just don't think it's possible to be any simpler than audacity is. Unless you are referring to selecting audio using the time counter thing. That is a total pain in the arse, but you don't really need it if you just use your ears and the nudge selection shortcuts.

It just is clunky to use, goldwave's workflow makes a whole lot more sense, at first, it didn't, because I moved to it from Audacity, but now, I can't even use Audacity anymore. I use a combination of Goldwave and Reaper. Audacity isn't a bad product, its just clunky to use.