Quote Originally Posted by Basil Rush
PC with Cubase or Mac with Logic Audio seem to be the options. I'm a Mac/logic fan myself but oads of people here use Cubase. If you can get a supported one with it already installed and the soundcard installed you can save yourself a lot of headaches that get in the way of producing music. Carillion as mentioned are the top of the range for PCs in studios as far as I can tell, also worth mentioning are the ones made by Digital Village and Millenium.
just to be different. i run a pc with logic. cant get any new versions but the last one they released has all the bits you need built in. specifically the awesome tape delay with the old dub reggae delay emulator ... oh my gosh awesome stuff!

along with cubase sx 2.2 / sound forge 7 / wave lab 4 / and trusty old acid 4.0 for looping stuff and getting it in time before importing to logic to make it sound good...