So to discuss what I use to create music is kind of a gigantic task. For starters, I'm a rampant tinkerer, so I'm always messing with different DAWs, Plugins, Software Instruments, Synths, Guitars, Basses, Pedals, and even my own home-made electronics (which you'll find all over the site).

Guitar& Basses - I tend to prefer Fender Offset style axes the most, though I also have a liking for old Kramer superstrats and am a big fan of Paul Dean's (Loverboy) Odyssey/Hondo models, though I only own one (though I have a second home-built one with P-90s in the works). I mostly either buy guitars (often broken) cheap and modify them, or I build my own using a mix of parts and custom carpentry.

New Scalar Rig Setup - for live and studio, I use a scalar setup that I designed myself that consists of a BOSS SY-1 Synthesizer, EHX PitchFork, and a Line6 HD500 mounted to a custom home made pedalboard/flightcase (my own custom design). These are then either fed direct to the computer/P.A. or can be scaled up using a BOSS Katana either as a PowerAmp for the HD500, or the Katana is controlled over MIDI using the HD500 and a special setlist(s) of patches designed to act as a variety of pedalboards that make use of both the Katana's in-built effects, the HD500's effects, as well as the superior polyphonic synths of the SY-1 and superior pitch-shifting of the Pitchfork. This results in a pedalboard that's 1/2" the length and smaller overall than the board I was using previously with all analog stompboxes and a tube amp, with much wider variety, allows me to use the same setup live and at home, and keeps the amplifier included in the equation (c'mon, if you have a guitar-supportive wife, she wants to HEAR you at least some of the time) so I'm not wasting one piece of equipment. I have a very specific sound I'm into for my "tone" and everything is built around this. I also have some home built pedals that I'll be using as well.

I use a revolving door of second/third/fourth hand PC's and Macs running Linux Mint. I use Ardour as my DAW, with SurgeXT for the keyboards (when I'm not using the BOSS SY-1), and DrumGizmo for the drums (Though I'm trying to learn to lay drums well enough on an AODSK electric drumkit so that I can forego the DrumGizmo altogether and get a more "live" setup and sound eventually). I have used other DAWs previously but I'm starting to find Ardour 6 does what I need it to do (the default that comes with Linux Mint).