Actually the more hardware the better imo. It always seems to sound better than yer software, I would love to own a half decent sampler thats easy to use. One that you could somehow link up to the pc and send recieve samples to it via drag and drop. I have an old akai s1000, it sounds wickid (althought very noisey). To sample onto it takes some doing too as messa doesnt work with s1000's. That sucks imo