Thanks Simon.

I may be heading toward Reaper now.
I installed Ableton Live 10 Lite and it does seem to perform ok, but so far is proving to be challenging in that it does not seem as intuitive as others I've seen.
I know I said I've been using Audacity, but I do have second hand experience with Pro Tools and Cubase, which I found easier to wrap my head around.
I'll give Ableton another day and do some more research/tutorials with it. I've over-cooked my brain the past 48 hours