Oldest Gear

Cool Edit. I've been using it since it came out and I bought a 'lifetime' license, which seemed to expire when it became Audition.

Blue ribbon software's SuperJAM!!
http://www.soundonsound.c.../feb96/amiganotes.html

Windows 16bit version is available for free: http://freemusicsoftware.org/619

It works with VMWare. ;)

I had an Electro-Harmonix Memory Man for the longest time but it died and was unfixable. Now it's a 1979 Les Paul Custom.

Sacalait


Roland JV1080- bought it in 1995 and it's still being used in my studio today.

+1, Still some of the best sounds out there and greatly unexplored sounds that are highly useful.

Cool Edit 2002, I keep using it, tried to replace it, but it won't go away, never gets old.

Benny Bear

 
Mine is the B4 II. 
  

Its probably the oldest one that I use regularly. I also have NI Vintage Organs but keep coming back to B4 II

Ak-Sys for my USB-connected AKAI S5000's. I have to run it in a VM window now in Win7 64bit, but it still works - aling with the old 32bit USB driver!

KEv

BBE Sonic Maximizer plugin

Har-Bal

garrigus


My oldest piece of gear is my very first keyboard... the Roland JX-8P. That baby can make some very cool sounds.

Scott

Mine is my first keyboard - Roland JX-3P.
 
DCOs, but nice VCFs and VCAs.

had a circa '69 Plexi too, really don't miss the "volume".



She was a real "flame thrower"...

T

Since this has migrated from software to hardware. I still have the first amp I bought. It's a mid sixties Ampeg Reverberocket. I bought a V-4 stack in the mid '70's. Both cabinets were stolen but I still have the head. My main amp now is a '67 Super Reverb that is just super sweet. I bought it after the V-4 cabs were ripped off.

Rocky

I have a Korg SG-1D as a master controller I still use everyday (knock on wood).  It use to be the best sampled piano...12 bit!  in fact, Bruce Horsby rented it from me for a concert in Milwaukee.  Purchased in 1991.

I use Eric Perching's Distorted Reality sounds still (Oil Can Bow is in my current project!),  those started in Akai sampler mode, migrated to Giga Studio and now Kontakt.  Must of gotten those in the early 90's

Looking around the studio I have Minimus 7 speakers from Radio Schack.  Those must be the oldest I have. I like to compose to them because 1) I'm use to them 2) No ear fatigue!!.   But i just use them to check mixes nowdays.  Those I believe are circa 1986.

I'll keep checking for more..I'm sure there other relecs I'm just not thinking of.

Oh yea, what about Sonar, starting with Cakewalk around 1990!   

Software wise it is my B4II. It’s the best sounding B3 IMO.

Hardware wise it would be my Yamaha TX81Z. I don’t use it much as I loaded all of it’s patches into FM8 but I still use it on occasion.

Since you did say "software", I'd say none since everything has been upgraded to work with XP and then Windows 7 and 8. I've had Sonar since it was Cakewalk 1.1 and Band in the Box since it came out. 

As far as hardware, its all fairly old since with all the great plug-ins, I haven't had to buy any new hardware except a guitar or 2 and some stomp boxes. My favorites are my Fender Strat, Line 6 Variax, Digitech Vocalist and my StudioLogic 880 controller. I sold an old Micromoog years ago that I wish I would have kept, but that's about it. 

The oldest musical instrument that I own and still use is the Hugh Tracey kalimba from 1968 which I bought new.