What Shall I Buy ??

Hi all jus wanna say hi to everyone on the site, this looks a great site to be part of and hopefully one day i can help contribute towards other peoples issues as you guys hopefully can me ,
I havent got any equipment yet at all simply because this stuff aint cheap and wanted a few peoples opinions before i start buying stuff. I have been looking at sythesizers and MPCS, im wanting to create my own music using a synth, a MPC and my guitar, i will be making all types of music from trance to dubstep and a little rock, is there much point in having a synth like the triton and a MPC working together, can they be plugged into a pc betwwen them and make music that way or am i best just getting one or the other. Thanks

The quick and dirty answer ( I am biased to using hardware)...

MPC4000
Roland Fantom X (or a Sonic Cell or a fantom rack)
Yamaha MOX6 (or an XS rack)
Roland VS2480 or Korg D32XD
Boss DR880(Drum machine and guitar effects all in one)

Some combination of these items.

cheers,
Ian

You should have a look at this and then follow the 2 next articles linked at the bottom of the page. http://www.tweakheadz.com/guide.htm

It explains all the basics of setting up a home studio hardware, software or a combination. To give you some general answers an MPC could be used by itself for complete productions, but it is a sampler. You'll have to fill it with sounds. This is generally why you see often people using one with a workstation keyboard or synth or rack sound modules. You could record your guitar to the MPC but I think you might need a DI box for the recording.

Through MIDI and audio cabling to a PC or Mac you can have a workstation keyboard like a Triton or Fantom and an MPC control virtual instruments in a computer. Or the computer could send MIDI to the external hardware. The capabilities of MIDI make it very straightforward to have it however suits your style of working.

As a guitarist you may prefer working away from a computer with an MPC and or a keyboard. Although at some point you would likely record your multitracks into a computer for ease of editing and mixing.

The Tweakheadz stuff is sweet and to the point check it out and you'll have a much clearer idea of how you want to proceed I'm sure.

Thanks you guys for the advice, gonna check that link out now, would like to send it all through the pc when it comes to putting it all together, at the moment ive got that many questions running through my head i cant get them all down on here lol, i have been looking at a korg triton 61LE and a MPC 2500 and then somthing were i can plug the workstation and my guitar into, are these 2 pices of equipment going to allow me to do pretty much everything whan it comes to altering and adding samples and looping to make tracks.

The good thing is that you know where you want to record the music to. If you are sure you are going the computer route then you are in luck because of all the software that is out there for you.
Tweakheadz is a great sight and so is sound on sound magazine. Many of the S+S articles are free on the website.
I play congas, guitar and Keyboard. The roland sonic cell is a great unit because it has the input for guitar and it has the fanotm X sound engine. So you simply plug into your computer via usb and you can record guitar into you computer or anything recorded through a mic. It works with cubase, sonar, logic etc. They don't make it anymore though and it doesn't use your computers power too much because it does its processing in the sonic cell box.
The DR880 is truly a great drum machine and it has excellent guitar effects and it is inexpensive. I make DnB, Dub reggae and house music and it will be great for all styles it has great drum kits in it.
The yamaha mox 6 works great with a computer and can also be an interface. You will get great sounds.
Other people can tell you about interfaces, DAW's and software.
You have lots of work cut out for you.
cheers,
Ian

With the triton and the MPC you have the beat composing proces covered.
It's very easy how to connect those two pieces together and sequence all the triton events with the mpc.

You can even sample/record ur guitar with the MPC.

Then you will need something like a mixer so you can hear the audio comming from multiple sources at the same time.

You will also need something like a recording device. This can be a multitrack recorder or a computer running software/ DAW.

To get your sounds inside the computer you will a need an interface. You can also get an interface with multiple inputs, so it can also function as a mixer.
Or buy mixer/interface combo which I personaly prefer in a small home studio.

In case you are going for a multitrack recorder you can just run all the audio through a mixer going into the recorder.

What kind of mixer/ Daw or interface really depends on your personal needs.

Pair of KRK Rockit 8 monitors

Roland MV8800

and a turntable, and maybe a synth too.