Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
Never a synth, but a few broken effects pedals when I was younger (probably 10 years ago). It kills me now as although they were broken at the time I think I'm tech savvy enough now to fix them.
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
How about stuff that becomes truly worthless?
Right now I have a Yamaha QY10. About 30preset pre-GM sampled sounds wedded to Yamaha's trademark arranger/sequencer (4 backing tracks from patterns, 4 "linear" tracks). It does sequence external MIDI and has a full event editor to tweak with. You can create your own pattern "styles" in addition to the factory set.

20 years ago this was hot stuff...but what good is a super portable 8-track "walkstation" in today's laptop studio world? Keep? Toss?
I hung on to my TR-505 for about 15 years after I had used it for anything before I sold it. I've still got a few rack units (Behringer Feedback Destroyer, DOD RDS3600, MicroVerb, NanoComp), some amps in need of TLC, old tape machines, a pre-MIDI Kawai home keyboard. These things all trade in the $25 or less range.
I guess I'd rather give it away than throwing it out if I knew anyone who needed any of it.
Right now I have a Yamaha QY10. About 30preset pre-GM sampled sounds wedded to Yamaha's trademark arranger/sequencer (4 backing tracks from patterns, 4 "linear" tracks). It does sequence external MIDI and has a full event editor to tweak with. You can create your own pattern "styles" in addition to the factory set.

20 years ago this was hot stuff...but what good is a super portable 8-track "walkstation" in today's laptop studio world? Keep? Toss?
I hung on to my TR-505 for about 15 years after I had used it for anything before I sold it. I've still got a few rack units (Behringer Feedback Destroyer, DOD RDS3600, MicroVerb, NanoComp), some amps in need of TLC, old tape machines, a pre-MIDI Kawai home keyboard. These things all trade in the $25 or less range.
I guess I'd rather give it away than throwing it out if I knew anyone who needed any of it.
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
Psh, not small and/or useless enough.

if you had that we'd be cracking. It doesn't even have a keyboard.

if you had that we'd be cracking. It doesn't even have a keyboard.
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
I've never actually binned off a piece of kit but I have sold one or two when they've outlived their usefulness. I had an Ensoniq Mirage rack sampler for a while: boy, what a donkey that was. I had bought a used Akai S900 which failed pretty quickly and the seller gave me this Mirage which had been sitting about. I used it for a while but flogged it for a few quid on Ebay. I had a clearout about twelve years ago when I flogged two SH-101s, a Moog Rogue, a TR-606 and a TR-707, basically most of my setup and bought a JV-880 and then a JV-1080 (fully expanded) before I bought its keyed version, the XP-50. Now I'm happy!
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
It actually has great sounding drums, crunchy and punchy.meatballfulton wrote:QY10
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
I use my QY100 all the time. Granted, it is more powerful than the QY10. The QY series are great scratchpad tools and once you learn yamaha's bizarre sequencer/arranger mess you can put tracks together very quickly. If only the korg nano- series had a proper MIDI output, they would be the perfect mate for the QY100.
Take it to a bar and sip a cocktail while working out a new jam. You'll be picking up hot chicks like crazy
also wear some kind of hipster t-shirt.
Take it to a bar and sip a cocktail while working out a new jam. You'll be picking up hot chicks like crazy

also wear some kind of hipster t-shirt.
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
My daughter is putting together a small set up to get into some sort of sound making. She gets all the stuff I no longer use. Waiting for her at home is a Yamaha mixer, amps, speakers and a CS 40Mmeatballfulton wrote:How about stuff that becomes truly worthless?
Right now I have a Yamaha QY10. About 30preset pre-GM sampled sounds wedded to Yamaha's trademark arranger/sequencer (4 backing tracks from patterns, 4 "linear" tracks). It does sequence external MIDI and has a full event editor to tweak with. You can create your own pattern "styles" in addition to the factory set.
20 years ago this was hot stuff...but what good is a super portable 8-track "walkstation" in today's laptop studio world? Keep? Toss?.....
Since she lives on the other side of the continent, I've had to send her the small stuff, beginning with a Yamaha DX 100 and QY 10. Realizing that the QY 10 was still useful (as a midi controller and a sketch pad), I bought another, one for me one for my daughter.
My QY 10 sits in front of my MacBeth M5 and acts as a useful MIDI controller as well as yet another basic pattern generator and sequencer.
One day, you may miss the QY 10, just for it's size and functionability. You can't stick a laptop in your pocket (unless you count iphones etc). Apparently circuit bending the QY 10 is possible too..
BTW, I like the electronic drum sets and all patterns can be MIDIed out, so external tone/sound modules can be used. Haven't figured out how to send a transposition out yet, if possible.
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
I haven't thrown away my Chroma Polaris..I can't do it. But it's tucked away in the closet. Every now and then I'll pull it out, open it up, shake my head, put it back together and slide it back in the closet.
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
Sell it to me
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
I would never throw anything away. Right now i have a bricked Microwave II sitting under my bed. Its probably permanently f**k, but i'm keeping it in hopes that someday, someone will figure out how to unbrick these things.
Synths:
Avalon Bassline . TB-03 . JU-06 . MX-1 . Blofeld . MicroMonsta . Akai S5000
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TR-09 . TR-8
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
Phollop Willing PA wrote:
She gets all the stuff I no longer use. Waiting for her at home is a ... CS 40M
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So, uhhh, where does she live again??

Synths:
Avalon Bassline . TB-03 . JU-06 . MX-1 . Blofeld . MicroMonsta . Akai S5000
Drum Machines:
TR-09 . TR-8
Avalon Bassline . TB-03 . JU-06 . MX-1 . Blofeld . MicroMonsta . Akai S5000
Drum Machines:
TR-09 . TR-8
Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
I've thrown away two pieces, both of which I'll regret forever (ever since then, I hesitate to ever even sell anything, even if it seems to be not useful at the time):
Live and learn.
- Roland TR-606 Drumatix, in 1988; I'd even modded it for separate outs. (I'd recently bought an SP-12 and the Drumatix seemed a child's toy by comparison.)
- Roland RE-201 Space Echo, in the early '90s. (Who'd want noisy analog tape echo when there were digital reverbs?
)
Live and learn.
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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
rschnier wrote: [*]Roland RE-201 Space Echo

Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
Thanks, that pretty-accurately represents my feelings about it looking back. But this is the "true confessions" thread, right?tekkentool wrote:[head explodes]

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Re: Have you ever... thrown away a synth?
OK let's all make a pact here and now with one another that if we EVER feel like tossing a piece of gear for whatever reason, that we post up here to everyone before we go through with it, and let everyone either persuade you not to, or encourage you to give it away to one of us instead of binning it. This thread makes me cry 
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Maybe there is room on this site here for a "Freebies" section??

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Maybe there is room on this site here for a "Freebies" section??
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