My studio is built around a MacPro 8 core tower, MOTU 828Mk2, and Behringer B2030As.

• I use Digital Performer, Live, Reason and sometimes Logic. (I used to switch between Logic and DP alot…Logic and Live seem to be more “sympatico” with each other. The workflow in DP is less convoluted to me however.) 
• I design sounds with softsynths. I’m not all software based — on the hardware side my main synths are a Roland V-Synth XT and a Kawaii K5000. I also have stuff from Waldorf and a Fizmo. 
• My main keyboard controller is a M-Audio Keystation Pro88.
• On the visual end I use a couple of animation programs that are great for generating abstract 3D imagery: Groboto and Bryce.
• For video editing I use iMovie or, rarely, FinalCut Pro.
• Lastly, I have a Tascam 644 that I use to pull tracks from OLD tapes I made “back in the day” when cutting edge was a Portastudio 144, some Fostex 4-track, or the erstwhile Tascam. 

This is an amazing array of capabilities that I could barely dream of a decade ago. It is at once liberating and at the same time overwhelming. As Eno said: “It’s not the number of options; it’s having 2 or 3 really good ones that matters…”

Yep.

Cheers.

nk:e