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Originally Posted by H-Rezz and when the novelty wares of you will be a few dollars short in the pocket trying to sell it !
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mpc 60's, 3000's, and sp 1200's go anywhere from 900 to 2500 bucks....
how much will a 10 year old piece of software that cost $700 (remember vision? logic for pc?) get you now?
classic hardware retains value much better than software...
seriously, if i was starting all over again, and the last gear i remember was an 01/w, i would just skip the computer completely;
get an mpc, add a triton, an hd24xr, an a/t or shure mic, a nice preamp, a good fx box (pcm 70 or rumour) throw in a cheap pc for editing etc. and get to work...
display? wanting a big display for music is like wanting a nice set of headphones for a painting.
it will sound much better than a dinky reason / m box / pro tools combo... although those can sound pretty good.... but for about $6k you will have the gear any pro could make a record on.
REMEMBER, if you're just getting the computer... you've got to figure out which platform (pc / mac) then you've got to figure which software (cubase, logic, sonar, pro tools, reason, performer, etc) then you've got to figure which plug in's (stylus, reaktor, bfd,) AND which soundcard - da/ad to use (firewire, usb, pci,), AND which midi interface, AND which controller surfaces, etc....
those are a lot of choices to make, alot of gear to learn, alot of little screws on your floor, a lot of big manuals to dig thru, and worst of all, alot of authorization codes / dongles / iloks to deal with.
with the all hardware kit, you could have a track done 2 days after you turn it on...