What software would you buy again if you lost it all?...

[mbenigni]

Without hesitation:
Ableton Live.

I'd check for better alternatives, but either these, or something directly competetive:
Guitar Rig 2
BFD

A meat and potatoes rompler or hybrid:
Dimension Pro.

Honorable mention (even though I rarely use it):
Reaktor.

[djadonis206]

Hmmm?

I know a couple producers who are blowing up pretty hardcore and they don't own any of the software they use, right?

asked, "well why not - you make good money producing"

...and the response is usually.

"Well, I already spent all this money on (insert hardware), why would I buy a whole bunch of new software."

Then tell those producers to sell of just one or two pieces of their gear and they could probably pay for all the software they use.

It's pretty ridiculous not to buy the software you use. It's so much cheaper than hardware. People make amazing software products and really don't make much profit at all, people shouldn't steal stuff that's so cheap and replacing what was 10X more expensive in hardware.

I've used cracks before to demo something for a longer time frame without any annoying intermittent noise or timeouts, but to actually make money from something and not pay for it is total bullocks.

But I know you know all that.

but never fear, I own all the software I use and if I lost it all I'm sure I could get a second licence from most of the software companies I support

Well sure you could usually get another license, but the original question was just a hypothetical.

Yeah, I kind of dodged the question

If I had to start over again

I'd get a

MPC 1000
Recycle
Live
Reason

maybe buy a mac and get Logic 7.2

oh and a old skool electribe and a cheap compressor with sidechaining capability

[dj superflat]

live (including op and samp)
mobius [[free]]
reaktor
sonalksis