That was my goal 14 years ago. I did it. Today i’m in the country, first neighbourg at 1 km from me. Wife (as happy as I am), cats , animals that lived around, garden with food growing and even amazon if I need new gear 
That’s the right goal.
When Corona began, and when i’ve been told to stay at home, it was like a dream. My wife can’t earn money for the moment, she’s independant, but I can, cause I work for the state.
The best period ever lived.
So achieve your idea as soon as possible, keep your gear, you won’t regret it once in the country.
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Sounds like you’re living the dream - well done for going after it and succeeding!
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I was on track to fund a Digitakt from some money I made selling a Yamaha AN200 and a few digital sales of my music. I keep hearing the Digitakt and Digitone is a beast of a combo. However, now I’m holding off on all purchases. I was actually going to buy a new car too as mine is now 20 years old, but that also flew out the window. Hunkering down financially seems the smartest move at this point.
luckily, no.
i bought all gear i need (either music and bike) right before quarantine.
i asked myself last month why i spend on gear literally all money i have, and isn’t my behavior unreasonable.
but it turned that it was reasonable AF, and my intuition somehow rocks.
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I was selling off some gear so I could get a model:samples to just mess around with during my downtime since I no longer have a digitakt, but with how everything is going down I’m probably just gonna keep that money in my pocket for now. Every day more and more shops around me are closing down and people are getting more and more aggressive which is making the impact that much more real.
very caffeinated, so bare with me…
It’s definitely made me realize what I already knew, and that is that I have all that I need.
One of the great things about Elektron boxes is their ability to be singular for track making.
But yea, I took stock of what I actually have and what I can do with it.
I have M:S, A4, AK, and OT in my studio. I could use any combination, or just one.
Hell, there are 5 different ways I can use the OT by itself. Looking forward to exploring some of those.
My M:C is on loan to a good friend too so that will become an option again.
I think once it gets back I’ll pair it with A4 and dedicate M:C for kick and hats to really open the A4’s 4 tracks up.
Lots of variety available that I have and hadn’t realized.
If I had to let go of the A4 for financial reasons, I could.
I’ve also considered trading it for a 2nd OT, since 2OT+AK might be smarter than OT/A4/AK. But that would be mostly for gigging and those hopes are pretty dashed.
I also have 3 limiters for some dumb reason, and 18 inputs into my DAW plus Overbridge. A few midi controllers and a couple USB MIDI hosts. I’m set.
A pair of headphones and a groove box is my anti-anxiety medication right now. So it’s good to have a few options if I get stuck in one mode. Also really looking forward to warmer weather to get out and do some yard work.
But to get back to the original question… I was going to sell my DDJ-1000 soon, I probably still should try. Also a Bogner Harlow that I haven’t been using (used it more when I had a pair of them)
Plus Ylva’s new M4L Sun Drums drum machine is a revelation of usability and a modern spin on classic sounds.. That and a couple Reaktor ensembles should get me through this awful crisis alone.
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Well, right now I won’t buy anything anymore any time soon.
The NOK valuta has totally tanked and everything has become 30-40% more expensive overnight.
I have been totally unmotivated to jam out since ya know, the revolution has been televised. Too bad you can’t play music once you’ve moved on to the next dimension of time and space. All those wasted circuits and modulation possibilities!
Then a realized it’s all just stuff and doesn’t really matter. Then I remembered music is life and I would be incomplete without it. So I wrote a jam about the end of existence and a bird that rises from the ashes of humanity. I guess it’s just time to make more music and buy less stuff!
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Word is, ‘they’ will wipe all individual debt as an incentive to abolish physical money/cash to obstensibly eradicate money laundering, drug dealing and human trafficking/prostitution/peadophilia/peadovores but then again ‘they’ are the ones who peddle this cycle so maybe ‘they’ are having trouble themselves, too many whitehats on the inside.
But still, enjoy your life, enjoy it to the max. It’s all you really have! Fuck it!
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so then, definitely preorder the PRO-3 SE on payments.
got it! 
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We don’t know how will be the future, so I ordered my dream synth of all time: Perfourmer MKII. Using with DT is perfect.
If it will not crisis, maybe I would wait a little more before spending 1200€. But this situation made me realise it’s now or maybe never.
So yeah, the Perfourmer is here, on my desk. I love it. 
I don’t plan to buy anything else for a long time.
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Even though i’m not particularly anxious about what’s going on i pretty much feel the same way.
I do not need anything extra myself, maybe a looper or Sampler…but I am not in a hurry.
I guess we are going to see lots of good deals in the next few months, shops trying to clear their old stock but I also expect some flooding in the second hand market.
Economy is going to stop for a few months, like somebody pushed the pause button, and it will take time for it to recover; we can expect delays in gear that was about to be announced. And I am talking about everything, TVs, Game systems, cars, anything.
People are getting fired, in some countries government will give some benefits out but in some others these people will be in their own., it is sad but it is going to happen. Those with savings may afford to be in this situation for few weeks , months or maybe years, depending on their wealth level but as happend in 2007 lower working class is going to take a new, hard blow…
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I won’t be buying or selling any music gear for a while now, I think the delivery systems need to be made available for essential to life stuff for one thing. Also I’m not sure I will have any money coming in so gotta tighten the spending just to essential things.
Once things start to return to normal I think it is important to reevaluate but for now I’m not even thinking about buying gear.
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I have even less time for music with the 100% home office thing in combination with closed kindergartens, but no need to complain really, I still have a job.
I have stopped buying hardware for a while now and will keep it so. I still have so much to figure out on the gear I have!
Just going to get into some new software adventures with video synths (Cathodemer, Lumen, Hydra,…) and going to jump on the Renoise train the coming week, I really can’t open Ableton Live anymore at this point, I need to get away from it for a while.
That’s my Corona music spending update for now.
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I was already curbing my gear purchases for a number of reasons (i.e. too much stuff, a move to a new - and more expensive - rental house, and a semi-retirement from my freelance work, which pays for the gear). However, this situation certainly puts a damper on any desire to have anything delivered. I am among those for whom this affliction could be very serious indeed (older, asthmatic, compromised liver and kidneys), and that means I am taking no chances with any outside contact.
So no more gear for now. I intend to spend a lot of time setting up my new place, getting the studio just right and exploring the gear I have. Alone.
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So today went out and got myself a pair of monitors and stands while i still could. I had a feeling that stock levels might drop and things might be a wee bit harder to get in Australia in general, but the salesman actually recommended buying from his local competition instead of ordering online from his own chain of stores.
Apparently there’s a bit of a problem getting supplied from interstate and he’s suggesting this could last quite a while even though state borders are still letting freight through.
Didn’t get the HS7s i wanted since the guy in front of me bought the last pair but Im pretty happy with the JBLs
Wouldn’t grab cathodemer if I were you. Never worked correctly for me despite updates.
Didn’t get it. Focussing on VDMX for now and following their nice lectures on Vimeo.
i’m not sure how one follows from the other, but I’ll happily read more of your newsletter 
After my partner made a fairly sensible point about not introducing unnecessary risk while all this goes on, I’m curbing any spending (was tempted to grab a Lyra to see me through to the other end…), which is probably for the best. While my employment is stable makes sense to get some savings together, and while gear is often liquid goods, I’m not sure synths will hold their value if civilisation collapses…