Originally Posted by herbinator45

you can find fantoms pretty cheap at pawn shops and from people who've recently upgraded or moved to strictly to PC-based production a la 9th and so many others. i really think that reason and FL helped start that revolution towards losing all the actual equipment and cables and doing everything on PC-- it's all about scalability.
just the cut-ins and cut-outs though.. i remember when i started messing around with making beats and actually recording tracks, we'd spend what would feel like an hour or two just getting the ins and outs JUST how we wanted them. then FL and reason come along, and you could do the same thing with the click of a mouse and you can see the wav file all layed out.