I need to upgrade my Arranger System for the following reasons:

I am increasingly bored with what I got.

I am jealous of UD, DNJ and Fran. They are constantly buying things including keyboards. One can feel their excitement and their growing wealth. The sad thing is my wealth decreases with each purchase.

So the wheels are in motion to sell my general purpose computer (give it away) to my relative. Turn my music computer into a general purpose computer and build a new music computer.

I have not fully decided what I will incorprate in my new Music computer. It could be as follows:

Pentium 4 3GHz, 2GB RAM ASUS Motherboard
ASUS Graphics 128 MB
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum - for midi and mic in
Steinberg VSL2020 for Audio
2 80GB 7200rpm 8mb Cache Hard Drives.
VERY Quite FANS
Pain Killers if my marriage catches me at this!!!

I was going to go small form computer (e.g., Shuttle) but decided against it. I like the additional power. Also it decreases the clutter of extra equipment (mic preamp, midi ports, etc.). Plus I don't go out much any more - to old!!! So weight is not an issue.

This upgrade will facilitate installation of many more virtual accoustic instruments. It will allow me to use higher quality effects, especially reverb. Plus I will beable to use separate instances of reverb for each loaded instrument. I still don't know why I am doing this given that my ears are also growing dim!!!

For those who are interested, Live - Styler has been recently updated. I am currently beta testing forte 1.4. Good things to come!!!

[This message has been edited by Frank L. Rosenthal (edited 02-04-2004).]