Let’s say you need money to pay for other things, you can’t sell everything because you still want to create. You haven’t created anything in a while because of…life. Now you want to create but purely for yourself, you are not trying to impress a label, you are not aiming for charts, a big mixing job or anything. It’s just for you and whoever may be in the car, house, head when you listen to your creations. You also love electronic music and have been listening to it for years, you like dark, techno, trance, happy, breaks, ambient, IDM drumNbass, etc etc. also you won’t sell the Blofeld because it’s a sentimental gift.
What would you sell to make the most money and still have enough gear to entertain yourself with it? Do you get rid of just one synths or two? You are only selling the Elektron stuff, so basically trying to work around the Blofeld desktop and the need to sequence it via gear or PC.
Really want to hear what would people do with my things and their reasons for doing so
Think about what you’d be losing with the loss of each and how you could accommodate. If I were you I’d sell the RYTM and plan to get it again down the line. Reasons being it is still going second hand for almost $900 whereas the A4 prices are falling to nearly $600. Also with the octa you can have your drum needs covered just fine. It also depends how much money you need because you could also sell the Octatrack and get a Digitakt in its place and have money to spare from that.
Maybe to sell everything. If you are not making music why bother. Especially if you need the money. Internet forums are full of guys who have awesome gear and who are still not making any music. It’s so easy to buy new gear these days if you have the dosh. For making music you need more than just the gear. You need time and energy to do it. If you don’t have that, all the gear is useless and you should sell it and focus something else in your life you are actually willing to spend your time on.
sample loads of sounds off ryhm and loops and sell.octatrack can cover the drums and perc. plus a4 can do some decent drums. nice set up with the blofeld
Dont sell any. You’ve got the dark trinity. Why get rid of that. From what I hear you aren’t gaining much by going to mk2 on any of them. But that’s just my take on it.
Yup that would be my Argumentation too. Octatrack and Rytm will get you most Money. Blofeld and A4 plus PC with Reaper gives you still plenty of sound Power to enjoy your Music making Hobby. But also take the time to use it. Otherwise its Just Dust collectors and can be all Sold.
If I were you, and therefore you had the same taste as me, I’d sell the rytm. A4 and OT is a killer combo, and can cover everything that the rytm does (run OT cue outs to A4 inputs to get samples with analog multimode filter and overdrive).
fwiw I disagree with the idea ”not using it right now so sell it”. Think long term, these machines can/will serve you for decades to come. a few years of hiatus from music is nothing in this life.
Agreed, keep the A4 and the OT. A4 can do drum sounds but the rytm cant do A4 sounds. OT can be a crazy drum machine too and you’ll probably get the most money for a rytm right now. Just quickly make sample chains of your favourite kits first
Octatrack can do drums with fx and mangling.
It can sequence the blofeld , which is also 16 part multitimbral and has fx
Laptop will allow you to drop samples onto octatrack.
And . If you have a phone , you can probably do a lot with that and render off more samples for octatrack.
After that if needed sell octatrack and use laptop for most things , assuming you already have a mixer to run things through ( laptop + blofeld audio )
If it’s about time, I’d sell all of the Elektrons and get things without menus. Elektron boxes are powerful but consume a lot of time/energy to program. If you aren’t using them regularly, you never really get fluent with them, which can get in the way of just being in the flow of making music. If you just want to knock out some jams, get some ‘dumb’ machines with lots of knobs that are really fun to jam on. TR8s, maybe the Moog DFAM/M32, sh01a, things like that. Lots of great records were made with just an 808, sh101, and a cheap polysynth, so I’d stick with that general approach.
personally i think the Rytm is a kickass machine.
even though in fact i may have never played one, would love to, mkI or mkII i don’t care, just really dig the sound and the vibe of the Rytm.
