Newbie to Mixing, yeah i know this is always asked Options

[spuncan]

K heres what i have, first gen. G3 powermac (getting G5 when they come out), Yamaha keyboard w/ midi in + out, Protools LE. What id like to be able to do is Mix and Remix songs. So my question is what else do i need to connect all of this and and what other hardware do i need (please keep prices down). My past experience is keyboarding, percussion, and audio cleaning (basic just running stuff through a peak demo for a friend.
Thanks for any help you can give.

[kaboombahchuck]

Hi spuncan. I rarly use just midi. Most of my stuff is done in real time audio. Having said that here goes. First off, I have every thing running through a behringer 16 track mixer. I use this to get the best sound I can, without the hiss and other junk. Behringer makes the best mixer for the price, you can check their goodies out at www.behringer.com . So after I get a nice clean sound recorded, I normalize it to 100%. This gives me the loudest possible recording I can get, without messing up the sound. At this point I save my work, so I won't screw up my work. Then I add effects (if needed). I continue doing this untill i get all the tracks to the song completed. Having done all of this, I basically have a master with all of the sounds at their peak. Then I do my mixing, using the mixing part of my program. See, now that I made the piont of making my masters, and saving them, I can go back and remix all I want. Having nice clean sounds in my masters I can even go back and add different dffects for a completly different sound. The possibilities are limitless!!