Well, as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words so here's a handy picture of the entire setup:
I do actually own a few pieces of hardware but those are for sale as I seriously need money for new monitor speakers as well as a few well-chosen plugins. I admit, I'm a hardware junkie and love working with it. However, to get professional kind of sound quality, something that might get released in 2016 requires quite a setup, a setup that would cost at least 10 000€, preferably more. Considering I am currently unemployed (I wouldn't have the time for this project if I wasn't), I simply can't afford to buy anything too expensive. So, a laptop and software it is!
So, what I have is not exactly a professional grade studio with tons of analog synths, all kinds of funky processing gear, a large Neve console and whatnot. Then again, DAW's and plugins have come a long way and many professionals work solely in the box these days. Shed as a prime example, doing sonically really great house music with just a computer. So, it's entirely possible to get great results with what I have, it's just the matter of acquiring the right skills and buying a few key plugins to patch the holes I have in my arsenal.
Anyways, enough of my financial blight!
Here's a track I started yesterday evening and finished today. It's quite a quickie job as I only spent about 5 hours on it. It's not exactly a dancefloor banger, more like a moody warmup track. While it could use a better mixdown and stuff, I'll still call it a done deal, as I don't really have any more new ideas for it. Maybe I'll get back to it a week or two later, if I think the track is worth a major rehaul. At least it could be a bit shorter, I got carried away.
Some people might recognize the speech sample. It's from an old favorite of mine from the 70's.
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