Lets say you wanted to start up a new studio to try and do this type of composition for under 10,000 dolllars. First off, I think its a good idea to stick what your'e good with, and I'm good at making Ambient, Electronic, and more Indie/Alternative type music. I'm also interested in learning how to do more "orchestral" type pieces, but just never bought the gear to do so (yet). What would you buy? Currently I have a Mac Laptop with really good specs, but honestly, I'm thinking of switching to PC (haha). Gear I currently own Larivee Acoustic Guitar American Telecaster Andromeda a6 synthesizer American Jazz Bass I pretty much sold everything else, like my amps and stuff, because I cant do the band thing anymore. So now I'm thinking of doing something else. Well, I'm at least going to try. So what I'd need I guess is . . . Fast PC Firewire Audio Interface Sequencer (I lean towards Cubase) A really good keyboard with a lot of different sounds (orchestral, piano etc, i've though of the kurzweil pc3x) And everything else im kind of up in the air on. I know you guys must get a lot of questions like this, but I'm getting to the point where its something I'm interested in again. Thanks ;-)