My final GAS list
 

In addition to a new top notch DAW computer: www.juho-lepisto.com/GAS.jpg

There you go, you hardware slaves. Muahahaha! Crush under your heaps of clumsy junk. BUAHAHAHAHA!

Nice setup actually.

My only problem with all software based is the lack of jammability.

Somehow it's just not the same to jam on a PC.

Some hardware is good for fault tolerance.

Are you looking for investors with this list? :wink:

PC jamming is no problem. Actually what's the difference anyways? (excluding acoustic and vintage keyboards)

And nah. No need for investors. But I really wouldn't mind if someone would like to invest.

The difference is the mouse.
As soon as I touch one it bums me out for some reason.

A mouse is as much of a let down to a jam session as a condom is to sex, IMHO.

Heh! Same here.

I bought all my gear myself BUT I will NEVER stop another human being from buying me additional gear. :wink:

Agreed!. I hate using the mouse to tweak "virtual knobs" Interrups the creative process and flow for me. I know I could get a knob box, but I am too lazy to have to set it all up to respoind to certain MIDI CC#'s and crap like that.

Have you guys ever heard of MIDI? You know, the thing that's used to control software and synths. Hoho.

lol juho is right
in addition what the use of comfortable hw synths to program when you dont have a good runing studio to creat and record quality music in!

The reason why I got away from hardware is the reason that I simply hate recording synths - It's an endless loop of record-"make changes"-delete-rerecord-"make more changes"-delete-rerecord. With software it's so nice that you can add FX right away and you have much more polyphony available. It's a joy.

By the way, that Doepfer Drehbank is a brilliant box. You can assing the knobs so that you can program for example PoCo Virus hardly even touching a mouse or keyboard. Great for that jamming stuff Alex mentioned. That box even has space for custom labels above the knobs.

I just sent an e-mail to a company that makes studio desks and asked how much would cost a custom studio desk (from bottom to top: Keyboard & mouse -> Doepfer PK88 -> Fatar SL161 Pro -> Doepfer Drehbank mounted in an incline panel for easy access -> Space for two 17" LCD displays & studio monitors). By the way has anyone got a custom studio desk? Are those pricey?

Yup, it sucks!

Yup, but I am totally new to it so I can't fully utilize it as of yet. Maybe in a year or so, but not now.

So, I still prefer hardware but REALLY appreciate the affordability/versatility of software synths.

I'll get there, I'm still new to keys. :roll:

My GAS list is as follows:

* Soundcraft Ghost24 (hopefully aquiring one very soon)
* Centrino laptop... with multi-channel i/o audio and midi

The TI will, unfortunately, have to wait...... ;) If I get the above items, it'll be the first time I'll ever be able to make proper music as opposed to just messing around.