I use the Audacity sequencer but its still a bit of a learning curve for me. My main problem is making the sounds brighter..
Talltechsons legalise it is cool ive seen it all over the place..i think he won a competition for it but i may be wrong.
The music industry is having to change because of the internet. Thats been goin on for a while now, but what with sites like splice, garageband etc the music is out of their hands. Its as though the people are taking back music i guess you could call it Folk music cos its made by Joe Bloggs and not somebody thats famous or popular and havn't spent millions on advertising and hype, and there are a hell of a lot of Joe Bloggs' out there, or should i say in here? were on the inside looking out and the music industry is on the outside looking in. and they don't like that it makes them uncomfortable. Like you, i dont listen to radio, buy or listen to cds anymore, this isnt by choice that ive made because of my distrust of the music industry and all that, i just prefer to listen to stuff that was made a couple of hours ago by someone thats is just as insignificant as myself to the music industry. This D.I.Y. approach to making music also seems(in my opinion) very punk as that type of music was kinda based on the D.I.Y. ethic < punk doesnt have to be noisy guitary drummy stuff, Its to do with the attitude taken towards creating stuff D.I.Y. A picture could be described as punk. I could be right, i could be wrong, whats your opinion,
Or have i just gone off the rails and started talking bollox lol.

Those are good analogies there you have with the Folk Music and the Punk scene Idisidi. The music industry is no different than the pharmaceutical industry, in that they have convinced almost everybody to believe that folk remedies and home brew remedies are smoke and mirror's or wives tales. They would say, in our case our music is too amature or just low quality, or just can't sell it like this, you will have to change it to this etc etc. Yet the real truth is these home brew methods have been working very effectively for thousands of years. A couple of real good examples are with the great results that Garlic and Apple cider vinegar have on your overall health and the old Folk Music you mentioned earlier as well as the early days of Punk Rock. These big industries shove a so called structure of doing something whether it be music or medicine down our throats enough times to where the masses over time truly believe and like this garbage. This branding is coming to a halt with internet sites and all of the wonderful open source software that is available. It's all about money and it always will be with these types of Companies once they reach a Megalopoly status. It's like Godzilla going out of control on the tiny island people of Japan.. Well I'm a little off track here I suppose. Ok, not to say that a 3 minute only song that uses Melody + Chorus + Melody + Chorus + Bridge + Chorus structure etc is necessarily a bad thing, it's not. But look over the generations of music and look at all of the successful mutations that have actually made big bands famous because of those mutations of the so called structure. These companies have enough money to produce every musician and every type of Genre if they wanted to and there would still be enough non musicians that liked every one of those Genre's to still make them filthy rich, probably even richer than they currently are. They are so tunnel visioned into a dogmatic thinking process that they can't see the forest because of the tree's and this in itself has lead to their current situation with the surge of Independent Musicians efforts on their own. They bloodied their own nose. Talking about going off the rails and talking bollox lol

I use Audacity and Reaper for recording and sequencing. String Theory, Motion, Rez, and Texture for midi synths. Hammerhead for drums (you can get some decent drum sounds from it if you download more user banks and process and layer things.) Old Korg Delta for analog synth sounds and a Yamaha PSR-300, it's one of those keyboards with speakers on it. OK for somethings. Carvin electric guitars going through a Digitech RP-10 pedalboard processor. I plug into my computer through the line in - not the best way of doing it, but adequate for now. The only mic I have is the cheap one that came with the computer, so I won't be trying any vocals yet! I'll be getting a new computer, hopefully, soon. So I'll be checking to see how to better set up a new computer for making music. I'm dying for a new synth too... anybody want to buy a guitar amp?! I have three - I don't need the half stack, too much amp for me now, it's LOUD! I don't use any of them for recording I might try the Marshall out though, it has a cabinet voiced line out. My other guitar amp is a Peavy, I'd have to mike it. I think that's it. :o)