Didn't switch....first dabbling into recording since a stereo cassette deck next to my amp. Our band recorded our ep on PT a few years back so i picked up (and forgot) the basics. Still gotta buy some monitors, bass, bass sansamp, mics...but i managed to get some sounds out of it with the old Pod and some drum tracks Henning Pauly sent me. Bloody hard trying to write music to a pre existing drum track....but quite fun too.
You know that most DAWS have an Export as Stem which automatically adds the right amount of blank space at the beginning. It makes all the files the same length.