Hey Ben I think that you can definitely get pro sounding recordings in Fruity. In my experience with the hardware side, everyone always wants the newer, more sophisticated equipment with higher bit rates and features. But at the end of the day, as Andy said, its down to the individual to make what ever gear they have work for them and I have heard some great tracks made on, what most would describe as, inferior equipment. With the plethora of software and plug-ins available today, professional recordings are a given....almost! My 2 cents Ally -----Original Message----- From: Ben Rees [mailto:Ben.Rees@xxxxxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 1:25 AM To: fruityloops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [fruityloops] Re: A wee intro Aha! - The question is, as someone with experience, do you think you can achieve releasable material=3D20 from the modest land of fruity, (with a bunch of VSTi's, plugins and the like) -----Original Message----- From: Alasdair Dunlop [mailto:adunlop@xxxxxxxxx]=3D20 Sent: 02 December 2002 20:13 To: fruityloops@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [fruityloops] Re: A wee intro Thanks Amit Maybe I should have been more clear. We wrote the singles we released when I had a room full of gear. We had, at one time (a year ago): PC running Cubase VST Atari 1040 STE (4 Mb) Mackie 1604 desk JD800 TB303 Various rack FX, compessors, gates Waldorf Pulse Plus rack Korg MS10 Korg MS20 - amazing if you can get one Korg Monopoly Roland Juno 1 Juno 106 Alesis SR16 drums - not used much Akai S3000XL fully loaded plus zip drive - brilliant and a few other little things Now I just have the MS10 which I may sell, the Pulse, which I am selling and my PC which is a P3-650, 256RAM, 100GB disk space, 32Mb GPU, SB Live soundcard, not great but does the job most of the time. Cheers Ally