Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
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Regret buying:
MPC1000 - it's an excellent piece of equipment but I somehow never "got" it. When I realized that it had never been used in anything that I've done I realized it was time to go. MPC, it wasn't you, it was me.
Regret selling:
Kurzweil Micropiano - the exact opposite. Sold it during the great equipment purge of 2008. There was nothing special about it but I didn't realize how important it was until it was gone.
Akai AX60 - another victim of the great purge. Sold to make room for a Virus Indigo. It should have gone into storage until I had room to expand again.
MPC1000 - it's an excellent piece of equipment but I somehow never "got" it. When I realized that it had never been used in anything that I've done I realized it was time to go. MPC, it wasn't you, it was me.
Regret selling:
Kurzweil Micropiano - the exact opposite. Sold it during the great equipment purge of 2008. There was nothing special about it but I didn't realize how important it was until it was gone.
Akai AX60 - another victim of the great purge. Sold to make room for a Virus Indigo. It should have gone into storage until I had room to expand again.
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
regret:
the $60 SH1000 I owned. That filter was amazing. I wasn't really set up to multitrack record analog synths, and was too involved with using only software. Sold it for a profit but kinda miss it's bass
the $60 SH1000 I owned. That filter was amazing. I wasn't really set up to multitrack record analog synths, and was too involved with using only software. Sold it for a profit but kinda miss it's bass
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CS-15. 

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i f**k up bad years ago and sold an ARP 2600 when a person could still buy one for a reasonable price.
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
My Yamaha A3000 V2, because it was such an excellent effect processor, I should never have sold it...
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
regret buying:
Yamaha DJX
Mopho (it was ok but not great for me)
regret selling:
novation nova
MFOS WSG
Korg EMX (sorta missed but love my RS7000 I got in trade)
JX3p w/ pg200 - (awesome synth but I knew I could sell at a profit to fund new gear..)
Yamaha DJX
Mopho (it was ok but not great for me)
regret selling:
novation nova
MFOS WSG
Korg EMX (sorta missed but love my RS7000 I got in trade)
JX3p w/ pg200 - (awesome synth but I knew I could sell at a profit to fund new gear..)
Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
regretted buying... everything, eventually
regretted selling... everything, eventually
I flip gear rather than hoard it. Don't mind so much - I see it as cheaper than hiring. Prefer keyboards to racks, and don't have the space [or the family life] to have more than a couple at any one time. So, I've sold a Lil' Phatty, Lead 3, MS2000 twice, Virus TI 3 times [I know...], a Motif XS7, PK-6...
Miss the Motif most, actually. Beautiful to play and screw around with. For a while I had a lead 3 on top, and that's the combo I miss most.
Still, I'm pleased with the Evolver's sonic mayhem - it cures my modular lust every time I play it - but I'm just going to buy an Indigo [1, not 2 - Virus B engine for me] to go with it. Two 3-octave synths, more knobs than the European parliament, and they'll look rather fine stacked up. Hey, maybe 3 36-noters is the same as 2 61's.... what would your third 3-oct synth be? I'm tempted for a microQ key or maybe some older classical analog...
regretted selling... everything, eventually
I flip gear rather than hoard it. Don't mind so much - I see it as cheaper than hiring. Prefer keyboards to racks, and don't have the space [or the family life] to have more than a couple at any one time. So, I've sold a Lil' Phatty, Lead 3, MS2000 twice, Virus TI 3 times [I know...], a Motif XS7, PK-6...
Miss the Motif most, actually. Beautiful to play and screw around with. For a while I had a lead 3 on top, and that's the combo I miss most.
Still, I'm pleased with the Evolver's sonic mayhem - it cures my modular lust every time I play it - but I'm just going to buy an Indigo [1, not 2 - Virus B engine for me] to go with it. Two 3-octave synths, more knobs than the European parliament, and they'll look rather fine stacked up. Hey, maybe 3 36-noters is the same as 2 61's.... what would your third 3-oct synth be? I'm tempted for a microQ key or maybe some older classical analog...
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
Regret buying
Brand new Moog Slimphatty (I'm not amazed by Moog's new gears)
DSI Tetra, DSI Mopho module (I purchased them quite cheap especially Tetra, both are fantastic but I hate programming that way)
Roland Aira TR8, MX1
Boss RC505,
Roland SH32
Yamaha SU700
Regret selling
My first TR707, my second SH101, Yamaha CS5
Brand new Moog Slimphatty (I'm not amazed by Moog's new gears)
DSI Tetra, DSI Mopho module (I purchased them quite cheap especially Tetra, both are fantastic but I hate programming that way)
Roland Aira TR8, MX1
Boss RC505,
Roland SH32
Yamaha SU700
Regret selling
My first TR707, my second SH101, Yamaha CS5
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
More than buying or selling, I most of all regret my drunk neighbor spilling Henessy all over the fully loaded MPC 60 II my best friend had just given me. It was such a drag to tell him. When I moved out of the city, I gave it back to him, he got it serviced and was doing some really cool double MPC stuff. So it worked out in the end.
It's not a big deal but I regret selling the two microbrutes I had last winter, but I had gas money and ate, so that worked out at the time. I know they aren't expensive, and I could get another one without fuss but I have so much on "the list" now, that it won't be for awhile before I get another one and I miss all the cool stuff I ended up doing when I played one. They are fun.
Not a synth but I regret selling the midi guitar I had just found, gotten serviced and started to experiment with. I got $500 for it, pretty sure they go for a lot more now. Again, I was able to eat, so that was good. . The guy that bought it was really sweet, he just wanted a regular guitar to learn on, I tried to explain to him what he was getting and that he could probably get a better regular guitar for the money, but he was so excited he bought it right away. I'm not sure he really understood what midi was no matter how many times I explained it.
My first eBay purchase was an ensoniq X that the guy threw in a box with around 3 Styrofoam peanuts, I have a "feeling" it was already broken before he sent it, he was a sleaze. I'm kinda glad it was my first eBay transaction that I got burnt on, because I have been as careful as one can be with in reason since.
Buying:
I am wrestling with what I think of the Drumbrute right now. I really like the flow and functionality- not crazy about the sounds. Been trying different FX, and getting decent results. I end up using it with a comittee of drum machines, which means I don't feel so stuck with the sounds but if someone wanted to trade me a Mad 5, I would take it in a second.
It's not a big deal but I regret selling the two microbrutes I had last winter, but I had gas money and ate, so that worked out at the time. I know they aren't expensive, and I could get another one without fuss but I have so much on "the list" now, that it won't be for awhile before I get another one and I miss all the cool stuff I ended up doing when I played one. They are fun.
Not a synth but I regret selling the midi guitar I had just found, gotten serviced and started to experiment with. I got $500 for it, pretty sure they go for a lot more now. Again, I was able to eat, so that was good. . The guy that bought it was really sweet, he just wanted a regular guitar to learn on, I tried to explain to him what he was getting and that he could probably get a better regular guitar for the money, but he was so excited he bought it right away. I'm not sure he really understood what midi was no matter how many times I explained it.
My first eBay purchase was an ensoniq X that the guy threw in a box with around 3 Styrofoam peanuts, I have a "feeling" it was already broken before he sent it, he was a sleaze. I'm kinda glad it was my first eBay transaction that I got burnt on, because I have been as careful as one can be with in reason since.
Buying:
I am wrestling with what I think of the Drumbrute right now. I really like the flow and functionality- not crazy about the sounds. Been trying different FX, and getting decent results. I end up using it with a comittee of drum machines, which means I don't feel so stuck with the sounds but if someone wanted to trade me a Mad 5, I would take it in a second.
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
I always regretted selling my ARP2600 to buy an Atari 1040STE and Monitor - I'm happy to have it back in my arsenal now though.
The worst synth I ever bought... The Oberheim (Viscount) OB-12. Even the thought of it makes me shudder.
The worst synth I ever bought... The Oberheim (Viscount) OB-12. Even the thought of it makes me shudder.
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
Yamaha FS1R - despite the poor interface, it is an amazing sounding synth.
Regretted it so much, I just bought a replacement.
Regretted it so much, I just bought a replacement.
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
Buying:
- Novation KS4, because it was an exceedingly poor approximation of a Supernova 2. Of all the synths I've had this one best fits the description of low-quality.
- Yamaha SY-55 not because it's bad, only because it was my first synth . Not a particularly good choice to learn synthesis with.
Selling:
- Supernova 2. 8 layers/splits/zones multitimbral with discrete FX processors per part. Truly a super-VA with a 'workstation'-capable structure for on-the-fly real-time multi-part madness. Best UI of any synth under 3 grand perhaps ever. Smooth, plastic bread&butter sound but with cool osc waveshaper, comb filter etc.
Somehow, even though it sports the most dull, anemic-sounding sawtooth wave in the game, it manages to cop a pretty nice Solina impression.
- Novation KS4, because it was an exceedingly poor approximation of a Supernova 2. Of all the synths I've had this one best fits the description of low-quality.
- Yamaha SY-55 not because it's bad, only because it was my first synth . Not a particularly good choice to learn synthesis with.
Selling:
- Supernova 2. 8 layers/splits/zones multitimbral with discrete FX processors per part. Truly a super-VA with a 'workstation'-capable structure for on-the-fly real-time multi-part madness. Best UI of any synth under 3 grand perhaps ever. Smooth, plastic bread&butter sound but with cool osc waveshaper, comb filter etc.
Somehow, even though it sports the most dull, anemic-sounding sawtooth wave in the game, it manages to cop a pretty nice Solina impression.
2600.solus.modcan a.eurorack.cs60.JP8.Juno6.A6.sunsyn.volcakeys.jd990.tb303.x0xb0x.revolution.
999.m1am1.RY30.svc350.memotron
shaft9000.muffwiggler.com <- singles & mixtape
shaft9000.bandcamp.com <- spacemusic album
youtube.com/shaft9000 <- various synth demos and studies
999.m1am1.RY30.svc350.memotron
shaft9000.muffwiggler.com <- singles & mixtape
shaft9000.bandcamp.com <- spacemusic album
youtube.com/shaft9000 <- various synth demos and studies
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
megamanx wrote:selling: my microkorg...
getting: Korg R3, thinking about selling it, but I am having second thoughts about it since I can download the microkorg, ms2k, and ms2kb patches...and it was virtually free...
Several years later
Regret selling
oberheim SEM
Akai AX 60
Analogue solutions telemark and Leipzig S
Regret buying
None really, not even the R3, looking back, it is an excellent synth.
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Re: Which synthesizer(s) do you regret getting or selling
Hi. My name is Bill. I am a horder. I regret selling everysynth I have sold. They all have a great void in my life. 

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