You can try Craig’s List, set only for local pick-up, at the price you want to sell it. Especially if you’re not in a hurry.
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Take it off the desk and out it away. If it doesn’t get missed and put back, it’s gone.
Although, I bought a Launchpad pro MK3 a while ago for a project, used it for a month, then put it away. Because I had put it away, I sold it. Only then to think this past weekend, I’d have quite liked to have tested something using the missing launchpad, DOH!
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- Space
- Money
- Deduping a particular category of instrument, processor, utility box
- After a weekend session of comparing similar items
- Figuring out what sounds great versus what I actually use
- Figuring out that the UI/workflow is too wonky for me (sorry Waldorf-M
) or gear that’s a little more unreliable that isn’t worth the extra cognitive load - Dumping patchbay gear/ DB25 snakes after a move/workflow change from “having everything hooked up” to hooking up things on the fly
It’s less all inclusive rules than figuring out my needs moment to moment.
There’s more than a few things I wish I hadn’t sold but made sense to at the moment. I was happy to pay down bills and sell my Speck line mixer, then realized I need more space to dance along with the pulse than my half height bedroom studio allowed for and moved synths / drum machines to the garage and now am hunting for my perfect compact mixer.
But I really can’t predict too far in the future, I don’t have the space and storage some persons do to keep everything unused and intact.
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Craigslist is just too sketchy for me.
I find Reverb to be slightly less rough on fees than FeeBay, but really it depends on which platform has a glut of whatever I’m trying to sell. I’m pretty patient with purchases and usually wind up getting great deals. If I do have to sell at a slight loss, I just consider it a rental fee. Nothing in life is free.
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FeeBay or FleaBay 
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My journey to downsizing continues, I already sold the old push 2, and this week some grabbed the TR8S, still listed: Microfreak, LC XL mk2, my Arturia interface audiofuse studio.
That leaves me with a push 3 SA and an APC 40mk2 and a second setup of an Ableton Move and an iPad 
Still don’t know what to do with my T-1 but for now it’s sitting in a box.
I nearly bought an Metal Fetishist and a Labyrinth combo I saw yesterday listed locally, but I said fuck it I don’t need another complicated box to learn, and bought all fors m4l on the sale, and not leaving my Ableton ecosystem for now.
The only thing I will probably do in the next year is to swap the SL88 GT MK2 for an Astrolab 88 and only use Live and m4l, stuff and the Arturia VST’s.
That is more than plenty to get everything I would ever want, I’m waiting for the big July update to Astrolab firmware to see if it’s worth getting.
Good luck everyone in their journey
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Cirklon is gone. Don’t miss it a bit.
At this point I think other than two ancient Electribes that don’t work properly, I’ve gotten rid of everything I want to. It’s really nice to not have to worry about swapping any inputs or outputs. I can’t say I will always stick to the amount of stuff I currently have, but at least until I move I’m not adding anything and don’t feel the need to for the foreseeable future.
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I’m on the downsizing journey this year too. I’ve sold my Hapax, Ju-06a, KO2, Keystep Pro, XR18 mixer, and about to list my Blackbox and effects (UA Golden Reverb and Boss RE-202). Keeping my Hydrasynth Explorer, Behringer Pro-800 and Korg NTS-1 at this stage, with my Nord Stage 2 being my main keyboard and a Novation Remote SL61-MK3 on Ableton duty.
I’ll use the proceeds to buy a 2nd hand Model 12 and then sell my Audient EVO-16.
I’d sell my Push 2 also but it’s got the sticky rubber syndrome and one encoder acting up.
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Yes, I’m VERY patient when buying. Someone always seems to have an emergency and needs cash quick. I’ve gotten some crazy deals just by being patient…and then swooping in like a vulture. LOL
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I think I am building up to another purge. I shelved a few things some months ago and haven’t really missed them. Around that time I sold three or four synths and missed them not at all.
What clinched it for me was actually lost a synth (prologue) - I had put it in a gigbag and slotted it into a closet and I forgot it was there. Clearly, I do not need that synth one bit, and it should go somewhere it will get used.
The same is true for my Trigon, my Rev2, and possibly my PX and Matriarch. That’s fine, I know they will all find homes, and once that’s done I don’t even need my Jasper’s stand anymore so I can go with more traditional shelving in its place.
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I think not getting a Jasper’s stand / getting rid of it is a pretty good move if you want to downsize or prevent upsizing 
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I decided to haul it out yesterday and literally wandered around my house trying to remember where it was.
So… no, I probably wouldn’t
I don’t think I really need much that isn’t currently on-deck, I think that was the plan a few months ago but I didn’t really want more listings at the time. I don’t fret over the losses from selling so much, I just hate the process - it’s a hassle.
So, the top 3 on the jaspers (now) are destined to go (rev2, trigon, prologue). Whether or not I keep a second 2-tier stand or not is a secondary question. If I don’t, then I need to pare down to two polys. That should be plenty easy, really, though Muse vs Polybrute may end up a cage match. Weirdly, I don’t think the PX has a chance against the Summit - that thing is just so fast to program and is so capable.
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Dropped Minifreak and Opsix from hardware.
The standalone and plugin versions work fine, and I can’t hear any difference, so…
plan to sell these.
I wanted to drop Blofeld for its new standalone/plugin version, but it’s somewhat buggy in my test project so I’m avoiding that for now. Maybe in time.
Dropped Drumlogue, a bit begrudgingly. It sounds great, and it’s its own thing, but I just don’t use it alongside other drum machines. It’s in a drawer for now.
Getting rid of a 2-tier keyboard stand as a result, and my old 3-tier I replaced with a Jaspers.
MUCH more room. Much cleaner. Much more efficient.
I’m starting to think about dropping my beloved JV-1010, which I’ve had since the beginning, but it’s only around for a few really old tracks and takes up a couple of audio inputs that I’d like for multi-output stuff instead.
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My “downsizing” journey has been funny:
TX802 → Digitone
Nord 2X → Blofeld → repurchased Nord 2X
TR8S → TR6S
Zoia → Zoia Euroburo (this one grew in size)
Lyra 8 → Lyra 4 (don’t own, but now want)
Scarlett 18i20 → Motu M4
Rackmount patchbays → DF Audio Minibay
Midi Solutions T8 → Midihub
I do prefer the smaller footprint, and the portability. And several things haven’t been replaced with smaller counterparts or different versions.
Edit: forgot one - Mackie 1604 → Bluebox
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I also did that kind of downsizing this week:
- my Elektrons are now only sending audio out via USB (Overbridge)
- That frees the backports of my interface, front is now cable free
- Audio out from my CBA pedals as well as audio out from interface to monitors are now router through much shorter cables
I managed to eliminate a lot of cable mess this way. I can also record via OB way faster now, which will hopefully force me a bit to commit earlier.
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I’ve also started using Live for more stuff lately - eliminating the cable madness (and saving money) as much as possible is worth having to fiddle with the computer every now and again!
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I sold everything to pay off those darn Affirm and Klarna purchases which have kept my family from having extra money for a few years. Kept just the SP 404 mk2 and an OG tracker. That with ableton is more than enough. Someday I will get back on the modular bandwagon but not until I’ve seen Norway and Japan.
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Paying off debt and closing those scam credit cards is the best downsizing there is!
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You should print that on a shirt or make a meme out of it 
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