Hardware Fascist right here. If I ever hook a computer up to my stuff, it will be a Commodore, and all it will be is the clock. Modern processors have lazy, wandering clocks, and you can *TOTALLY HEAR IT* in a lot of "bedroom producer" work. I would have to spend too much money to get acceptable pad latency out of a modern computer, and staring at a laptop sucks. Buy a MPC 2000XL MCD. It's drag-and-drop to SD card, and sounds *almost* as nice as the 3000. I found mine for $350. I record to a Boss BR-800, 64 virtual tracks for $300. Buy some headphones, its a $700 studio. The only thing great about software production is that it is easy. Really easy, as compared to coping with antique hardware UI limitations.

But I think limitations serve to empower and free you, once overcome.

Counterarguments welcome dudes!

That is one comprehensive Hin-Hon. Hadn't seen it, thanx. Related: this particular pictured example was modified by a dude named Toast. It has a RCA video in, and a RCA video out. Brutal. Just dug it out.

Here to drop some knowledge on the most rad/cheap keyboard in the world:

Meet the Hin-Hon Ek-001, although she goes by many names, and can be found in a few different housing forms...
She's a (2 note) polyphonic squarewave analog synthesizer. Her clock is a simple resistor, easily hacked, and when you turn the clock down, the organ tone turns into the deepest, droning cold dark flat lush goodness omg.

If you have never explored the *Tablehooters* website, looking this board up is a good place to start.

I can't find the one I bent recently, pic is a broken one given up on, so no extra knobs sprouting out.

Happy hunting in the thrift stores dudes.