If you had my gear, what would you sell and what would you keep?

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EDIT: For those who want to skip I highlighted a few question for anyone still willing to help but do not want to read the entire post…

Guys, thank you all so much for answering, I have read every dingle post and even took notes. The most suggest sell was AR - 11 times, A4 - 5 times and OT - 3 times, this includes the post suggesting selling all three.

a few quick answers, I will absolutely not be replacing anything, so no money will be spent, the goal is indeed money, so selling and replacing is out of the question at least for 2 years or more. Selling everything…well I have done things like that before, I have sold my sports gear and had to track it down and buy similar gear again, I have sold my video game consoles and had to re-buy them because my girlfriend a tthe time made me feel bad about “playing them at my age”…things like that, all this was years ago. So I do not think it’s something I will drop doing, I am still “mixing” albums into DJ mixes even though I stopped DJing 20 years ago, because I love a fluid album with no pauses.

So with that said. Rytm is going. However I would like to get alittle bit more money. And also I do not have any software plugins to fall back on, so all th emusic will be coming from Elektrons I guess.

So now I am left with Octatrack, Analog four and Blofeld. My drums are gone. One more unit will have to go betwen A4 and OT.

If I let go of OT I am left with A4 and Blofeld. Blofeld with A4 is a bit of an odd combo. Blofeld will need the PC to played at all and A4 is still in just the hardware stage. Frankly I do not even know if Overbdridge works with Reaper, so I might be left with A4 that has to send audio to Reaper and Blofeld that will need to be sequenced through Reaper. Thoughts on this?

If I am left with with OT and Blofeld it’s a little bit better, because OT can fucntion all by itself and can even put the Blofeld in if I am ever really low on PC reserves or couldn’t keep up with updates. However OT has 8 tracks, 1 is lost to being a ‘master’ track, if I am sequencing Blofeld 1 track is lost to being to being MIDI and at least 1 for the sounds from Blofeld, so now I am left with 5-4 tracks. Functionable?

Once again, I really appreciate all your answers, this is really helping me mor ethne you think, it’s giving me some order in my thought process and gets me motivated. Thank you.

So to sum it up, you now have A4+Blofeld+ reaper with no plug ins - how do you manage this?
And youhave OT+Blofeld+Reaper - how doyou manage this?

Anyone still contributing - Thank you.

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I guess the question is what kind of music do you want to make? Leaving as many doors open as possible is working as a strategy only if you know not to close the one you actually want to use.

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Well the ones that I can actually make is anything in the 4/4 genre with a little slower theme. so 110-120 bpm techno, deep trance stuff. I am trying to move a bit away from 4/4 and start using broken beats or syncopation, that brings it down to slower tempos even more for me as I can’t do anything in full on breakbeat or drum n bass. So chill out, downtempo and slower trance and techno basically.

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I’d stick with the OT and Blo. And before yoi sell the A4 and AR, sample the shit out until you CF is full.

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Tough one and you’ll probably end up getting as many recommendations as there are permutations of your gear. Even though I’m not a Windows guy, I’d probably keep the laptop as it’s likely to have other duties as well. As you need something to sequence your Blofeld with, you should also keep the Octatrack. I’d probably let the A4 go and possibly the Rytm, even though from my point of view it would be the best single machine solution overall (keeping in mind you don’t seem to have an awful lot of time at your disposal), but the OT covers the sampling part more extensively. Be prepared to sell at prices that hurt.

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This x10, it’s a buyers market for mk1s right now

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Sell everything, buy a Circuit : it doesn’t cost much, it takes no place and you can jam with it instantly when life gives you 10 minutes to think about music.

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I’d sell everything except the laptop. Computers have no resale value but you can use it for so much stuff, not just music. Sunvox is completely free and awesome and represents just one example of the many excellent and free software environments for creating music. Plus you’d still have Reaper and a Blofeld.

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If I was you then I’d sell all of it and buy what I have, because I’m me.

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I’d keep the OT.

I don’t know what working with the Blofield is like - I’ve heard great sound demos/tracks with it but it might be one of those synths with a UI that drive me batty, so I can’t make a proper call on that.

There are too many other drum machines so out the Rytm goes.

I’d rather have a Dreadbox Abyss than an A4 as my polysynth, but that’s admittedly an apple/orange thing the A4 has tons of functionality that the Abyss can’t compete with; but the Abyss has a a really compelling sound.

I’d keep the Windows laptop to help manage files for the OT, and run OctaEdit. That’s about it - I just don’t do softsynths; except SunVox maybe, because I’ve already got a song under progress in SunVox on my iPhone, but copy-paste is painfully slow there.

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Sell it all and buy something new and shiny.

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Sell all of it, get into farming.

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Sample your favorite sounds on the Rytm and then sell it.

The rest is worth keeping and OT is perhaps the only machine that can replace the Rytm in a substantial way.

And then don’t buy any other gear until you make 20 tracks you love with the instruments you have.
Focus is priceless.
Remeber, you’re making music for yourself. So do just that, and work to limit distractions.

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if I was in your position I would sell all of them and replace them with ableton live suite and push (both second hand).

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sell of that shit except the laptop and ditch reaper for ableton

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I’m sure the OP saw your post, but if you want to make sure he saw it, you should quote his post instead of mine.

I don’t disagree with your post, fwiw.

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That’s not true! The Octatrack has 8 separate tracks for MIDI in addition its 8 audio tracks. So you do not lose an audio track when you are sequencing the Blofeld. In fact, you can assign each MIDI track to a separate channel and use the Blofeld’s multi mode to sequence 8 different timbres at once :smile:

Other tips. The master track is optional—track 8 can be just another track. It’s trivial to set it one way or another, even in the middle of a project. Also, you only need to sacrifice a track for the Blofeld sounds if you want to run it through OT’s effects. If you don’t care about effects, you can monitor the input directly.

I had the exact same thoughts as you before I bought my Octatrack—I thought 8 tracks was not enough and I would feel limited. In reality, I often don’t know what I’m supposed to do with tracks 6 and 7 :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: OT + Blofeld is a killer combination, you have everything you need right there. Especially since you can sample the hell out of your RYTM before it sells!

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Keep the laptop and RYTM, stretch up to a MKII in the future if finances permit.

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Sell it all and buy a nice violin