Life long musician and creative thinker, played in bands for 30 years, I was 24 working at Alesis when thier ADAT recorder started the digital recording revolution and the ability of common Musicians record and produce their own finished product. Its evolved light years since then to the DAW based home studio. There is still a core of different technologies you need but the field of choice is ripe and we now have the ability of reaching a global audience on our own, by our selves, completely independent and free from the top down traditional music industry. Hoorah!