My Music Setup

I've been thinking for a while that those big expensive music studios you see on tv with the massive mixer desks with all the knobs are perhaps a waste of space - for a one person to make music with, that is. The more I experiment, the more I realize that this is so and that one is perfectly capable of creating industry level music just on your computer.

I just have my trusty G5 and a Digidesign Mbox and I'm busy creating music that (I think) stands up to professional music you hear on the radio.

Software
Digidesign Pro Tools 6 (comes with Mbox) - Audio/Music Recording/Editing
iLife 04:
Apple GarageBand - Easy to use Loop based music creation
iTunes - Ultimate MP3 Music player and organizer


Ever since Apple's Garageband came along, I use it almost exclusively to come up with ideas for songs - it has an awesome library of studio quality beats, samples and software instruments that are all intelligent and adhere to the tempo and key of your song. Then, just to enhance the song even more, I usually export all the tracks out of Garageband and import them into Pro Tools (at 24bit 48KHz) so that I can mix them a bit better and maybe replace some sounds with higher quality ones. For sound quality and professional editing functionality, Pro Tools is the industry standard.