Looking to upgrade my equiptment! Advice needed!

[Magarious]

Right at the moment i am not doing much at home waiting to get on my new music tech course! I am looking to upgrade all my kit and buy some new bits amd bobs to improve my setup.

At the mo i have!

Nice PC 512 gb ram 19inch flat widescreen monitor
M-audio firewire 410
Eurorack ub1204fx pro mixing desk
M-audio Oxygen 8 midi keyboard!

This is very basic stuff and i want to upgrade. My aim is to record guitar and vocals as i like folk music country and slow rock. Also i love hardcoredance so i love synths.

I want to upgrade my stuff to this:

1. Mixer: Mackie Onyx 1640 16 channel mixer! Guising you can playback the track through this mixer unlike the 1 i got and has more channels which is ideal!
2. Roland V-SynthXT MIDI Synth Module (i love sythn sounds)
3. Dynaudio Acoustics BM5A Monitors
4. Mackie Onyx firewire i/0 card (is this a rack one, i woudl prefer if it was is there an alternative rack version is not)
5. MOTU Midi express 128 8x8 interface bus powered
6. Yamaha S90ES 88 kay action synth or Korg TR61 or any other good affordable synth!

This is what i want to improove on my i dont no what to buy 1st, synth is going to be the most pricy as im not loaded can some give some cheap alternatives to synths.

What do you guys think!

Thx 4 help

Alex

 

[boogieman481]

Assuming you are going through the mixer to record, I would go with the mixer first.

 

[NYMorningstar]

You didn't mention one but I'd get an additional hard drive and dedicate it to recording.

 

[Magarious]

I have a external hd that i can use for this but its need recovering because somthings wrong with it but i can reformatt it after i fix it.

Is a pad controll any good and usful to create drum beats?

 

[dgatwood]

Nice PC 512 gb ram 19inch flat widescreen monitor

I assume you mean 512MB RAM. That's the first thing I'd upgrade.

If you really mean 512GB RAM... what is this, a Cray?