back in the day I used to write dance music and wierdo synth stuff with my mates, so fed up with trying to get a band together was I.
I had a Yamaha midi keyboard, a Roland MC303 and an Emu Proteus, fed into Cubase, Soundforge and all that malarkey. It was ok, but I have developed a pathological hatred of MIDI now; its so much hassle, so many cables, just to play music. I didn't find it easy to be creative when I was constantly having to 'MIDI dumps' and all that. I always wanted the Elektron Sidstation or the Access Virus (you could run a guitar through that). Anyway, it was so nice to get back to just having a guitar, some effects and an amp, simple yet so many options! No longer having to worry about polyphony and portimentos...
My GCSE portfolio was funnily diverse though; an orchestral fugue, a bangin' hard house tune and a lead guitar performance of Rage Against The Machine's 'Know Your Enemy' :lol: