Get a $60 Quad Core 7 Inch mini tab or 9 inch tab, which ever size you prefer, a Sixty-ish dollar one that has high amazon ratings.
Get Caustic and the Unlock key for $10
Get The Mastering App that the Caustic Guy is working on now and releasing Beta Tests.
Use the Modular in Caustic a lot. Add your own open source samples to the Caustic Tablet.
If you prefer VSTs and a VST DAW, What Freeware VSTs:
Bootsy VSTs, Especially Ferric TDS Tape Saturation Emulator
The KX-MODULAD
The Tone2 Firebird
Note that there are many great freeware VST effects but not so many great freeware VST synths; dont know any besides the Modulad and Firebird.
What to get if you are NOT Broke:Probably an Arturia CS-80 & Modular V
Probably A Arturia MicroBrute & Whatever is Novation's Latest Synth by the time you have money; as your two hardware ones. A Modal 008 if you have $5000
If you like used old vintage synths, you want an Octave Cat and a JD-800
Some sort of little stereo vacuum tube amp
Heres something old school Im working on in Caustic Mobile Android & iPhone App. Note the URL ends in .mp3, guaranteeing a non-website blank tab playing a non-executable .mp3. No webpage to go to, and mp3 extension right there in the URL to see.http://mboxmp3.com/u/68D.mp3 (Caustic Demo)
This is going to take 3 weeks to build this 3 minute sketch into a full actual song.. and 3 weeks that I feel well, not 3 weeks in general. This sketch is unmastered, theres just a compressor & mild EQ on it in Cuastic its self. I make things sound slingly more analog than other people, but am not that good of a musician. Im referring to completed tracks that sound a far better than this sketch; still not that good. You can still hear how Caustic is a good $10 App
This is a Sketch thats why you dont hear all the proper transitions, why you hear some repetition without more variation going on. 3 weeks to make it into a track.
Im ill and do not make that much money. I already bought some software. I want to get the CS-80 and the future JD-800 from this company -- as I know they are going to be wise enough to start working on a JD-800 in cooperation with Roland, so I can have my amazing "Le Satchi Dream Mix" like sounds.
be back on Forum after I buy something by Arturia Unless theres one or two more off topic posts to make in the next year, i doubt it. Or unless someone has a question here.