Let's see; on my way to find something else I bumped into something called GNUGuitarINUX - it's just about everything I ever dreamed of having for multitrac recording and much more. You can run it on a thumbdrive or off a CD.
Playing with it I decided I wanted it to save my settings separately in say the drum machine (Hydrogen), Ardour, Rosegarden, etc.
So I proceeded to build it myself as there was no other method found. I installed Debian using net install mentioned in this article, then I compared the GNUGuitar to my new debian install using the synaptic package manager.
Pulled it off really without a hitch.
I mentioned it to an old friend who told me he's still holding hope to start using Cakewalk, (that's a windows exclusive, non-free, proprietary software gig - just the type I've sworn off).