I have a lil 233 megahertz pentium clone I have the the sound driver software that came with it also I have cakewalk pro audio 8.0 I still have the factory sound card that came with it. As far as the sounds go mine are so distorted and I am struggling to get the sounds that I'm dumping in my computer to sound like the do in the headphone connected to the synth. I am looking to buy other stuff (preferably a sound card/midi interface with litlle to no noise and a cd burner). As far as equipment goes I am very much content with using this and maybe an additional sound module because i am only doing music no vocals and for now the final mixing and mastering will also be done elsewhere. I am just trying to sequence here.