I don't know if this is of much help, but I used to work for a Japanese Company that made digital recording devices such as samplers and digital recorders. We supplied a lot of samplers to a simulator company to replay the many channels of sound required to simulate all the different conditions. I forget how many channels, but I think it was well over 150 and each one had to be recorded, looped (in most cases) and triggered. The main sounds were engines, undercarriage, weather, slipstream, warning chimes and messages etc.
The result was astonishingly accurate. The sounds were recorded during many flights with microphones positioned where the crew sat at head level, e.g. so the effect of rain on one side of the aircraft would be different for each of the crew.
Anyway, it would make some use of your music technology in an aerial context! Good luck. DeeCee