How many times have you bought and sold the same gear?

Cosmic · 2017-01-23T17:03:53.770Z

Nikarga:

Sometimes its so daamn good hahaha…

In all seriousness though quite a few have the once i sell i never rebuy… interesting approach.

Stops me from selling anything haha

andreasroman · 2017-01-23T17:13:49.439Z

You know, that’s very good feedback and I appreciate you saying so. I’ve asked myself the same question.

I think, for all the fun I had with the Octatrack, that the limited as well as direct nature of the DigiTrak will just suit me better. I prefer the SP303 over the 404SX, the ES-1 over the ESX, the four voices of an A4 over the 16-part 48 voices from the Virus Polar, and so on.

I just don’t want all that many featuers, just the right combination of them. I think a wealth of options is distracting, the right combination of them focusing. On paper, the DigiTrak looks like a perfect setup for me, in this regard.

Open_Mike · 2017-01-23T17:20:16.591Z

Zero. Only music gear I can recall selling was my old audio interface when I upgraded. Strummed some guitars into the ground and somewhere have a bag of guitar fx that could use some solder…

LyingDalai · 2017-01-23T17:20:35.667Z

@andreasroman has different eyes.
He sees mysteries in this new little box where you see features.
Where lies limitation, he sees possibilities.

I hope it’s going to be your tool, pal
I don’t get it why you’re not into MPC Live anymore (I see it like an OP-1 ++) but I guess learning a new interface is not that interesting for you right now. Can’t throw the stone.

I am currently selling my good old Volcas, the synths that got me into electronic music !
I feel a bit bad about it, I must admit.

LiquidAgua · 2017-01-23T17:20:56.141Z

Another high score here:

Machine Drum: 2 (nonUW and UWsold)
Octatrack: 3, I sold 2 of them.

And non-elektron gear:
2x Electribe ESX1 (Both sold)
3x Blofeld desktop (sold)
2x Electribe 2 (sold).

Fortunately I barely lost any money with this, maybe 300-400€, but hey, it’s the small price to pay for all those swaps.

PeterHanes · 2017-01-23T18:19:31.928Z

4 posts were merged into an existing topic: Blofeld love

zfigz · 2017-01-23T17:55:46.927Z

This exactly!

I bought my MnM in August of 2007, just before they released the mkii models. Slowly moved onto a mkii then a mkii with a +drive

andreasroman · 2017-01-23T18:21:33.965Z

You’re too kind

The MPC Live seems spectacular. But as I’ve come to realise, a lot of features push me away, rather than attract. The Live just does a lot of things I don’t need, and the options being there, would distract me. The DigiTrak ticks every single goddam box for me, and I’m not left wanting for anything. And from what little I’ve read, every single goddam things it does say that it do, I’d use to its full extent.

natrixgli · 2017-01-23T18:49:17.988Z

A LOT.

3x Analog Rytm
3x Monomachine
2x Analog Keys
3x Analog Four
2x Octatrack (not including buying the same one twice)
4x OP-1
5x Blofeld (4 Desktop, 1 Keyboard)
3x Electribe 2 (Keep forgetting about the annoying menu and poor quantization of real time input)
3x Maschine Mk2
3x Virus TI (1 Ti 61-key, 1 Ti2 Polar, 1 Ti Desktop)

If I could afford to own it all at the same time I would, shuffling is the only way!

nirun · 2017-01-23T18:50:37.947Z

i haven’t had to re-buy anything, glad i got rid of little dinky boxes and pedals cluttering up my desk. The only thing I regret is selling my op-1 but i used it to fund the purchase of an apollo 8 for a crazy good price. Would like to buy a new op-1 again, but no rush since it looks like they’ll be around for a while.

clickclack777 · 2017-01-23T20:13:37.046Z

I´ve been really close to re-buy previously owned gear because of the way it sounded, how you could use it or the way it looked (can´t help it. I´m a designer) but I always stop myself in that though remembering the bad stuff which overwhelmed the good which made me sell it at the end.

One thing that has to be right though are the aesthetics of gear. I have a really hard time convincing myself buying ugly designed gear even though they sound good.

I though of re-buying the MD several times because of it´s immediacy to create music but the lo-fi sound quality has kept me away. Another factor is it´s lack of micro-timing which is crucial for my way of creating music. So I went for the OT and have kept it since. The OT paired with the ND2 cured the MD gas. But I´m on the fence weather I should sell it or not because of it´s difficult sampling methods, low sequencer resolution and difficult MIDI implementation to create chords.

My first MPC was the 2000XL but the slow editing of samples made me sell it. Last year, I bought an MPC2500 (which is way faster than the 2000XL), customised it and couldn´t be happier with it´s tight sequencer and features with JJOS XL.

akurosa · 2017-01-23T22:03:28.273Z

This is funny, lately I was beginning to think that selling the OT was a failure and if Inshould buy avsecond one

Berzerker · 2017-01-23T22:19:53.131Z

Bought the Korg Es-1 MkII 3 times and sold it 3 times and still want another one.

Ryan · 2017-01-23T22:59:59.363Z

Bwax:

As a true nerd, I actually have a spreadsheet of all gear bought and sold. I have a total of the difference between bought prices and sold prices. Makes me tear up a bit whenever I look at that!

Thus comment brought you into my top 5

license · 2017-01-24T04:45:10.476Z

Only with cheap stuff.
Traded away a TX81Z, missed it horribly, bought another about a year later. Still got it.
Traded away an EA-1. Didn’t even miss it that much but traded for another one that was broken that I thought I could fix. Couldn’t fix it.
Then there was this SU-10 I lent out and traded back to the same bunch of people multiple times until one of them finally sold it.
Same story with the RY30. I do miss that one occasionally but I just remind myself that it has nothing on my MPC1000.

Rusty · 2017-01-24T04:54:19.141Z

Hmm… lets see… off the top of my head…

3x Akai MFC-42
3x Behringer BCR2000
2x Bitstream 3x
3x Elektron Octatrack
3x Elektron MachineDrum (MD MkI, MDUW MkI, MDUW+ MKII)
6x Elektron MonoMachine (SFX-6 x1, SFX-60 MkI x4, SFX-60 MkII x 1)
4x E-Mu Proteus 2000 / Orbit 3 (2 of each)
6x Korg Electribes (2x EA1, 2x ER1, 2x ES1)
4x Roland TB-303
6x Roland SH-101
2x Sherman Filterbank 2
4x Shruthi-1
2x Spectalis 2
2x Studio Electronics SE1x
4x Waldorf Q (2x Q, 1x Q+, 1x µQ)
2x Waldorf µWave XT
3x Yamaha RM1x
3x Yamaha RS7000

kirlian · 2017-01-24T05:48:29.834Z

I’ve owned the DSI evolver a few times now, and still miss it. Bought a another MnM after selling my first one. I figured if it happened twice it was worth strongly considering not selling an item rather buying a new one. It’s worked pretty well so far… i regret selling most of the things i’ve sold

kippertoffee · 2017-01-24T08:22:37.915Z

I get it! I love my nord lead 2. I often crave for more sound shaping capability, maybe some effects, but the simplicity and immediacy keeps me coming back. It’s a true instrument.

The octatrack appealed to me originally because it is (at it’s most basic level) FruityLoops (circa 1997), with extra bells and whistles. I made SO MUCH MUSIC when I was only using the early crippled versions of Fruityloops. The quality… welllllllllll - but the level of creativity and inventiveness was high, if I do day so myself. I guess the digitakt is actually closer to an 8 track version of Fruityloops - octatrack minus some bell sand whistles.

andreasroman · 2017-01-24T08:49:50.924Z

Man, saying it like that, I just want it even more.

I can see myself in a rig where I build music in the DigiTrak, then record it into the Octatrack for next step polish and further mayhem and sculpting.

For a brief while, I used the ES-1 like that with the Octatrack. That was a good, good rig. But the vintage way of handling data in the ES-1, kept me from keeping it. I filled it up too quickly and exporting was a nightmare.

The DigiTrak to me seems like the perfect collaboration of old and new ideas on sampling, with all the basic hygiene in place. Saving, exporting, memory, such things. With that out of the way, the feature set doesn’t have to be all that much.

Nikarga · 2017-01-24T09:36:28.402Z

I will save this to remind myself “its okay” in the future FWIW I forgot to mention I’ve bought/sold Virus x3 (Virus Ti, Ti2 Polar, Ti Darkstar)… and thinking about buying it again… W T F…