[MonkeyMan]

Ten. I am taking the plunge buddy from scratch! The last time I powered up a computer in anger to make music it was an Atari ST running Emagic Creator (might of been C-Lab even).

The racks of outboard gear I had were top notch - but I had to move away from music production for various business reasons. I sold 90% of it and just kept my core kit. 7 years later...

To say that technology has moved on would be a big *ucking understatement. The simple thought of running a virtual studio 7 years ago was impossible (let alone affordable.) Just happened to pick up a Future Music Magazine after bumping into an old producer friend of mine (who also wetted my apetite) and BAM.... totally sucked back in.

Just waiting to pick up my kit which consists of (so far) : -

Apple Mac Dual-Core G5 2.0 ghz - 2 Gig of ddram
Apple 23 " Cinema Display
Logic Audio Pro 7
Lacie External 250 gb Firewire drive
Access Virus Ti - 61 note keyboard
(still making my mind up between the RME Fireface 800 and the Mackie Onyx 400F...)

The electronica stuff I used to produce was very heavily laced with outboard multi fx - which I used to record onto my DA30 and then multi-sample into my Akai S3000 (sigh...)

No doubt processing things in real time will be putting the G5 CPU through it's paces in a very short space of time - which is why I am thinking about how to ease it's load.

Apart from the Ti - I was just going to use virtual synths - and a decent software sampler or two.