My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well.
I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
I've been so entwined with technology since I was about 15, recording myself and multitracking and producing things on my own.
I love Logic Audio and have been using it for years. All my track outputs used to come up on my old board in the same order as in the old Mac G4 - 1 through 32, came up as 1 through 32, for instance.
For my second record I had gotten ProTools (program) and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.
I really like iZotope Trash, which is a great plug-in for distortion, as is Ohmicide, which I love. It's an absolutely crazy multiband distortion, compression, EQ and filter, which pretty much lets you do anything.
I was very much fascinated with the technology we had that we could edit in the computer our compositions, but all the sounds that were available on the market were crap.
I have Pro Tools on my computer, and I make CDs all the time.
Nowadays you can record on your laptop with Pro Tools, which I do quite often.
