A Yuletide Apocalypse

Just ordered a bunch of stuff from Sweetwater, so exciting! For use with my new keyboard of course…

Edirol UM-1EX 39.97
Hosa YPP136 4.25
Hosa GPM-103 1.90
Hosa GPR-101 2.40

First item is a USB MIDI interface, the other three are various connectors and adapters for hooking up the audio jacks of the keyboard (1/4″ TS x2) to my computer’s Line In (1/8″ Stereo TRS, Powerbook G4). And a few adapters for 1/4″ TS to RCA just in case. Oh, and I threw in a 1/8″ TRS (F) to 1/4″ TRS (M) adapter just in case I loose the one I have, it seemed cheap….

Anyways, here are a bunch of more fantasy things I’d love to have from this wonderful store, posted here because their website doesn’t have a permanent wishlist — it forgets everything!
(Don’t buy me any of this without asking first…)
Also, a few words on the software… note that 99% of this I either have already downloaded, or could download if I wanted in pirated form– but I still will purchase when/if I am ever inclined to really use it (ie. not just use it to screw around). I rationalize this by saying that were such copies not available, I still wouldn’t be shelling out the big bucks just to play with the stuff, I’d just be without the software entirely — and the chances of me buying it when/if I had the disposable income would then be much less… I digress.

“Digidesign M-Box 2″:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/MBox2/
It’s rather amusing, since I really don’t have anything worth recording but I still want the gear
“Presonus FireBox”:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/FireBox/ Firewire Audio Interface

Software
“Apple Logic Pro”:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/LogicPro/
“Ableton Live 5″:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/LiveEdu/ (Educational Version)
“Steinberg Nuendo 3″:http://sweetwater.com/store/detail/NuendoEdu/ (Educational Hybrid)
“Propellerheads Reason 3″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ReasonSoft/

Virtual Instruments:
“East West Quantum Leap RA”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/QLRA/ 14 Gigabyte Virtual Instrument Covering Ethnic Sounds from Six Areas of the World
“Korg Legacy Collection - Digital Edition”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KLCDE/
“Native Instruments Komplete Care 2006″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KompleteCare06/ Not sure exactly the nature of this one, but it sounds cool
“Native Instruments Komplete 3″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Komplete3/
“Native Instruments Komplete Sound Bundle”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/KompleteSound/ Sounds for Komplete
“Steinberg Virtual Instruments Collection”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VIColl/
“Arturia Vintage Collection”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/VintageCollA/ Classic Soft-Synth Bundle Including Arturia’s Modular V, CS-80V, minimoog V, and Arp 2600V
“Native Instruments NI Essentials”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/NIEssentials/ Virtual Instrument Bundle with BATTERY, PRO-53, KOMPAKT, and ABSYNTH - Mac/PC
“Native Instruments REAKTOR 5″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Reaktor/ Modular Software Synth/Sampler/FX Studio - Mac/PC (Standalone and Plug-In)
“Zero-G Pro Pack for GarageBand”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ProPackGB/ Massive Collection of 11,000+ Drum, Instrument, Vocal and Effects Loops in Apple Loop and AIFF Formats Now this one I’d actually buy, since GarageBand is so userfriendly, I actually do use it. And loop-based music creation is so much fun!
“Bomb Factory SansAmp PSA-1″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/BombPSA1/ Pro Tools Plug-In Amp and Cabinet Simulator - TDM Almost bought the hardware version of this tube-modeler back when I was hacking it at guitar…
“Arturia Moog Modular V 2.0″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ModularV/
“Steinberg The Grand”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/TheGrand/ Virtual Concert Grand Piano VST Plug-In
“Applied Acoustics Lounge Lizard EP-2″:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LoungeLizard/ Electric Piano Modeling Software - Mac/PC (Standalone and Plug-In)
“Arturia minimoog V”:http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/minimoogV/ Virtual minimoog Software Synthesizer - Mac/PC I have tried this one out– they have a demo version that is quite fun!

p.s. Bravo to sweetwater for using intelligent URL’s and not some crazy PHP random ID crap like all those other big sites… may take a human to write out each slug, but it is worth it! I’m really starting to like these guys/girls.