The best place to start ,particuly if you are going into creationg your own industrial/ebm is to download various plug in softwares of the internet,i don't encourage piracy but if you must use it theres a wealth of torrents out there of various plug ins or vst,for creation of your own ebm/industrial i recoment the top plug ins by creators such as arturia/rob papen/refx and korgs own legacy collection,also look for native instruments,steinberg and rgc audio's z3ta synth,a good standard usb midi controller keyboard is recomended but most keyboards/synthesizers will work just as well, look for DISCODSP their descovery softsynth is a true clone of the clavia nord lead ,if you go to
http://www.soundburst.com/northmood.html then you can order Northmood which is the clone of the clavia nord modular and is avaliable for around 100 dollars or 90 pounds if you are in UK ,keep a good hardware synth with you too the more the merrier, look for arpeggiators /samples/etc you may wanna visit my website to give you some pointers
www.myspace.com/kordnetix i use a lot of arps and samples on there and if my music does not appeal to you then i gladly point you in the direction of bands like covenant/vnv/vigilante/grendel and psychopomps all thease can also be found on you tube as these bands use a wide veriety of arps loops samples etc a pc computer p4 anything above 2ghz cpu or a mac g5 a gig of memory and a 24 bit souncard with low level latency,any desktop or laptop of these specs will do! look for vst apps like sony acid (used by prodigy for fat of the land album) Cubase,cakewalk,synapse orion,imageline fruity loops version 8 recomended,ableton live and reason 3 or 4 by propellerheads (an excellent synth/sampling module) and used by a lot of bands including depeche mode and the cure,i recomend a trance plug in called adventus df and you have to try refx nexus with its 16 gig of mind blowing presets you will be banging out tunes like a bloody jukebox in no time.
i think that about concluds it!
Bset of luck
Kord
