i spent most of my college days producing electronic music in my living room (my roommate was cool with taking up half of it with wires and big clunky hardware)

i spent most of my college days producing electronic music in my living room (my roommate was cool with taking up half of it with wires and big clunky hardware)... but to me the biggest killer app of that time was Rebirth. http://www.propellerheads.se/products/rebirth/ http://www.propellerheads.se/products/rebirth/ it was cheap (or free depending how poor you were) and replaced $1000's worth of hardware.. really it's the highest value app i can think of that time (at the retail price).. of course the analog sound was emulated but it still sounded pretty badass. i later got a 303 clone (futureretro 777) but still kept using Rebirth. one day when the rat race slows down i'll remove the dust from the 777 :)