Multi-track equipment and a mixer are usually used during hardware-supported audio production. To support sound editing, an effects rack is also often connected, as well as perhaps an edit station for arranging and editing the project.
This studio environment is represented completely for the PC by Samplitude, and as such, you don't have to change your working methods. Samplitude offers a virtual multi-track device, a professional edit station, an effects rack and a fully-equipped high-end mixer - all of it as an integrated software solution.