Equipment Whore

I've got three laptops, one for work, one for internet and one as an fx farm(? I'll explain in a mo)

I've also got a desktop pc ( I say desktop, it looks like a bleedin fridge).

The desktop is my studio - it's a 2ghz 2gb big baby - specs

M-Audio 2496

Apadtec - Scsi Card - for connection to my Emu Esi 32 and 4000 samplers - (they have Os 3.0 installed which is required to transfer samples to and from the pc.)

UAD PCI FX

4 hard drives - 160gb and 3 x 40gb -

XP installed on 1(40gb),
software on 2nd(40gb)
and Vst on 3rd(40gb)

USB devices include,

Korg NanoPad and NanoKontrol,

M-Audio e49 Keyboard,

It has a Gigabit Lan card installed as well (this allows netork connection to laptop via gigabit express card - this then gives me the option of farming out fx processing to the laptop using a program called FX transport)
he setup
I also have a laptop that acts as a synth/soft sampler connected via midi.

This folks is the PC side of my studio - it's a wibbly wobbly setup but it works and it works well.

That said geek as I am there is also the equipment side of setup.

I love old stuff,

YamahaTG500 - My favourite when it comes to it. I love the proteus but this is better.
Proteus 1 - My first synth - and cool
Proteus 1/orch
Roland D110 - the runt of the little, harder to use and sounds not as good - but has some nice pads
2x Emu Esi 32 with maximum 32mb each 1 with turbo card, one without.
1x Emu Esi 4000 with maximum 128mb and turbo card installed.

Now I can hear all those new school dudes saying what 32meg? why? why not software?

Well have you seen these sexy things? They've got knobs that flash and dials that dial.

And best of all they sound great - honestly the samplers sound a country mile better than any software program. Warmer.

The synths also sound great - I dunno but they feel more real than some desktop based instrument.

I like to use them all, not all the time but it's nice to have the choice.