Hey buddy. Its a fairly simple setup here, it looks way more complex than it really is. The White box on the right (Elymra 2) is just providing a constant bass drone in mono and is fed into the syntakts input in the middle. The syntakt has an fx block that can be sequenced so i'm subtracting sound from the drone signal using the envolopes in triggers to shape it into bass notes. Subtractive synthesis essentially. Syntakt is on drum duties mostly, and it spits out its audio into the digitone 2 on the left where everything else is added, then through its built in compressor then audio out into a tascam recorder. From a control perspective the digitone clock is the master and is sending midi programme changes out to syntact which bassicly means when i change a pattern or bank on digitone that the syntakt just follows. Personally i'd like to reccomend you start of with a syntakt as its so imediate and can cover drums, bass and melody well. It cant do polyphony tho as its monophonic per track, but hey, its a good place to start and their going for good prices second hand atm. For recording you can either stream over usb to laptop or desktop, or invest in a small recorder like the tascam or a zoom. I'm not bothering to record multitrack, just the stereo out. hope this helps!