I started making music way back in the late 1980s on a Commodore Amiga with a tracker program. It was restrictive and fun, making your own sounds with the basic sampler hardware. Before long I was filling racks with all kind of synths and boxes. These included my trusty Roland D50 which I still use as a master for my now software only setup. I also loved the sound of my Waldorf Pulse and Waldorf Micro Q. Nice fat bass on those! I also had E-mu's Vintage keys, a Quasimidi Quasar, Control Synthesis Deep Bass Nine, Novation Bass Station, Emu Esi32 Sampler, my drum machine was a DR660 by Boss. My overall favourite was the Access Virus. This was used with Cubase and then Logic on my old Apple Macs, first a Power PC 7300, then a G4. I now use an Apple Mac G5 2ghz dual with Protools LE working with my trusty Mbox. My favourite soft synths are Spectrasonics Atmosphere, Native Instruments Pro-53, Battery (a must!), Absynth 3, Arturia Moog Modula V and CS-80. I have just bought the Arturia ARP2600v soft synth (Sept 07) and it is heavenly!

Today (22 April 08) I have bought the Arturia Analog Factory Experience. Ooo it's good!