Nannyknowsbest

Lifelong musician - only stopped after a stupid accident left me in a wheelchair and a hell of a lot of pain!
Closed my big studio and now work from a single room - packed with musical and recording equipment. Spent 30 years on the road and over 20 working in the studio - as artist, producer and engineer. Far too old to be still this mad about making music. Very interested in collaborating with like minded people over the internet. I've still got my little record label (from when I had the big studio).

Keyboards (main instrument), bass guitar, electric guitar (not very well) and I'm a devil with a triangle.

Cubase pro 10 (currently updating from 5). Reason 5. Approximately 500 vst instruments and over 10,000 samples and loops.

Behringer X 32 32 mixer, I7 processor based rack with 4 core secondary rack with USB and FireWire interfaces. Behringer "Truth" MK2 near field monitors, AKG Stenheiser studio "cans", various midi and effects rack modules (hardly used these days), Hercules FireWire rack sound card, expensive vocal mike (I'll put up the make when I remember), 2 X Yamaha keyboard, M Audio 88 key midi controller.

Mostly - the same "manufactured" plastic noise that passes for music these days.
Love more "complex" music - be it rock, pop, metal or house. If not it's not the normal "verse, chorus, bridge, verse (again) with "hooks" repeated every 10 second - my ears may just pop up.

Dark side of the moon, Later Beatles, Sails of silver (Steeleye), Jean Michel Jarrett, Brothers in arms, Living years, Guilty, Sabbath bloody Sabbath, King Crimson,

Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Barbara Streisand, Dire straits, Keith Emerson, M and M, Bob the builder, Mike Batt, Steeleye Span - anything that takes my fancy....

Literally, anything from classical (I wrote "Aftermath" - featured by the BBC centenary remembrance of WW1) to hard rock, stopping off at folk rock and Pink Floyd.

We'll, don't know how it happened but, I seem to be retired!! Partially because of my injuries but also because I'm old!!
I spent most of my life at the sharp end of the emerging IT industry. I was involved in hardware maintenance, financial software authoring, fraud prevention and network development.
For much of the time I was based at the Stock Exchange, looking after critical systems and developing new networking solutions.
This experience was very useful when setting up the studio hardware and software.