Something I did when I wanted to sound like the songs from the Halo game series.

Clay - Sage Temple

Bio:
  
  Stanley Chounard of Urbana Illinois USA, AKA Clayjrjr2 is a determined musician/composer/producer/artist who started out his music making career by using a very simple MIDI sequencer. He became interested in making his own tunes because he had nothing new to breakdance to.
  After a short while someone introduced him to a way more advanced audio software program called Fruityloops. He began remaking all of his MIDI files seeing how they would sound with all of these new "toys" he was introduced to. He found out shortly afterwards that this program had way more to offer than he had first seen.
  Now he's grown with this fully capable software studio musically, and has stayed with it ever since. He is now working on putting up a local studio, and getting more hardware for his production. All of this and still learning.  "No true artist ever moves on from learning, remember that."
  
  Name: Stanley Chounard
  Location: Urbana Illinois, USA
  Music Style: Hip-hop, trance, RnB, DnB, ambience, rock, techno, IDM, orchestral and jazz
  
  Artist History/Experience: Started producing 2002.
  Musical Influences: Every song that I encounter.
  Source of Inspiration: All sorts of random things. Emotions, other songs, images, dreams, feelings, thoughts, theories & fun.
  
  Equipment Used:
  E-MU Xboard25 keyboard controller
  Yamaha MG10/2 mixer
  Alesis Multimix 8 USB mixer
  M-Audio MobilePre USB audio interface
  Korg D4 digital track recorder
  MXL 2001 microphone
  MXL 603 microphone
  E-MU 1212 soundcard
  Samson Resov 65 Studio Monitors
  Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headphones
  AS401 Magnavox Stereo amplifier
  First Act ME 537 Guitar (black)
  Intel Quad core 2.4 cpu
  3 GB Ram
  840GB HDD space
  
  Software Used:
  FL Studio 6, 7, 8 etc.
  NCH Switch
  Abelton Live lite 6
  Cubase LE
  
  Synths Used:
  Sytrus
  Toxic Biohazard
  3xOsc
  SimSynth
  DX-10
  Wasp
  Wasp XT
  Synthmaker
  TS404
  
  Samples Used:
  Modernbeats sample sets
  P-5 Audio sample sets
  Banginbeats sample sets
  Sample Fusion Samples
  ProSessions
  Soundcrafting
  
  Comprehensive Equipment list:
  
  Blue/Silver computer (parts and hardware add ons) - $1500
  Black/grey HP computer (parts and hardware add ons) $1800
  
  M-Audio Delta 1010LT - $199
  E-MU 1212m (soundcard) - $150
  E-MU Xboard25 (keyboard controller) - $162.74
  External Hdd - $79
  Yamaha MG 10/2 mixer - $150
  Alesis MultiMix 8 USB Mixer - $150
  MXL 2001 & 603 mics (2 pair) - $220
  Sennheiser HD280Pro Headphones (2 pair) - $ 200
  Korg D4 - $150??
  Samson Resolv 65 (speaker monitors) - $200
  M-Audio MobilePre USB - $130
  Red YAMAHA electric Bass guitar - $179
  First Act ME 537 electric Guitar - $129
  
  FL Studio Producer Edition - $199
  PoiZone (synthesizer) - $79
  Toxic Biohazard (synthesizer) - $99
  Sytrus (synthesizer) - $179
  Directwave (sampler) - $99
  SimSynth Live - $35
  Wasp & WaspXT (synthesizers) - $29
  DrumSynth Live (drum synthesizer) $29
  Soundfont Player - $35
  Video Player - $35
  
  EDITING SOFTWARE:
  EZ-editor (sound editor) - $24
  NcH software (sound converter) - $36
  
  SAMPLE LIBRARIES:
  Spectrasonics Omnisphere - $479
  
  EAST-WEST QUANTAM LEAP
  Symphonic Choirs - $410
  
  SAMPLE FUSION
  Varazdin Orchestral (sample library) - $99
  Sliced Beats (sample library) - $29
  Orchestral (sample library) - $29
  
  P5 AUDIO
  HipHop Liberator vol 1. - $34.99
  Tupacalypse Construction Loop sets vol 1. - $54.99
  Blazin' Guitar Lickz 2 electric - $29.99
  Dre's Guitar Lickz Chronicles - $19.99
  NEW Dre's Platinum G Series Kit SSL - $49.99
  
  FROM BANGIN-BEATS.COM
  Open Sesame - $9.99
  Kick Madness - $9.99
  
  MODERNBEATS.COM
  Klub Klapz 1 - $39.95
  Klub Klapz 2 - $39.95
  BeatVox Drumz 1 - $39.95
  Brass Elementz 1 - $39.95
  DRE-mendous Drumz 3 - $34.95
  Ethnic HipHop 1 - Tha Instruments - $34.95
  Guitar Elementz 2 - $34.95
  HipHop Keyz - RnB HipHop Chordz - $34.95
  Kosmic Klapz - Space Age Urban - $39.95
  Neptunian Drumz 2 - $34.95
  Neptunian Drumz 3 - $34.95
  Platinum Rhythmz - Vol. 2 - $69.95
  RnBKeyzLoops - Vol.1 - $69.95
  Tru Bass 1 - Electric Six - $39.95
  Vintage Machinez 1 - $39.95
  Vintage Machinez 2 - $39.95
  Vinyl Scratchez 2 - Vox and Wax Trix - $39.95
  
  SOUND CRAFTING
  9th wonder of the World Kit - $9.99

Clay - Sage Temple

Stanley W.L. Chounard