Windows 7
above average programming capabilities
Please be serious, do I want to perform the tedious task of downloading various packages and re-compiling Audacity to gain ASIO capabilities, or should I just purchase “Reaper”?
Thanks
From your post I would guess that you might prefer to purchase Reaper.
The developers of Reaper made the decision to not be open source, which I believe was largely so that they could ship with ASIO support. The Audacity developers made the decision that Audacity would be free open source software and within the terms of the Steinberg SDK license we are not allowed to include their source code.