I’m trying to reduce my setup at the minimum side possible.
Last week, I only used a Digitone and an AH+FX and it was great, it was both very limited and powerful. When I’m not in a GAS phase, I just do music with the gear I own and I realize I don’t miss anything in fact.
I really like the music of Lorenzo Senni and Gabor Lazar. Lorenzo Senni only uses a Roland JP8080 for years and still makes one of the coolest, fresh and innovative electronic music today. In an interview Gabor Lazar explained that he only uses Max MSP patches.
In the french rythmic noise scene, Terrine only uses a Machinedrum for years and years and her music sounds pretty unique.
So when I see a new device that I want, I remember that the most interesting electronic music I listen is oftenly made by people who only use one or two devices for years. And it allows me to push the possibilities on the Digitone far away than I could expected when I got it.
This Autumn I bought a MegaFM, I’m now selling it. I find it more rewarding to find paths on Digitone to achieve the kind of gritty lo fi digital sound I have in mind than buying a new thing everytime I have a new esthetic idea.
I own a second hand bookshop that also sells comics, vinyl, video games, movies, music gear etc. There are very many temptations daily when someone sells us nice records or books. I’d like to carry them all home to my own shelf. But I’ve learned to resist temptation.
I’ve noticed that if I leave something that I want, to be for a few days, a customer usually comes and buys it, therefore solving my dilemma. It’s good to see temptations going out of the shop door.
That’s the policy I’ve learned to apply to second hand gear too. I see something I want - I leave it be for a week - someone else buys it - problem solved - continue with my life. I almost never buy any new gear from the shop. Everything is second hand.
I have been gassing for a Rytm MKI, a Perkons, a bigger Eurorack case (with a new Starlab), a Bluebox and a Digitakt. And all of that in the last couple of weeks…
So, count me in, I’m done with that, wasting hours and hours of watching youtube vids in some strange mode of anticipation.
What I have:
- 7U x 104hp Eurorack (which I really, really like)
- A4 MKI (love too)
- Model Cycles (does not get much use)
And a M8 and MM2 for mobile purposes.
Also have a DNK and a Neutron boxed up.
That should do it for 2024!
I can’t join.
M8 model 2 is around the corner and probably roland will announce new gear this year.
Started doing the boring admin of unsubscribing from manufacturer, retailer and marketplace email alerts.
I’m not going to go cold turkey on gear tube and forums but I’m going to try to stick to
content that inspires me to create rather than acquire.
there always will be something new around the corner…
#justsayin… 
I have the same policy with sales on here. If something pops up I want at a good price. Hang tight a few days, someone will snag it and do me a favor!!
I’m in this exact same boat, but I’m going to stay strong. I’m set with Roland gear…I hope, but when I agreed to sign up for NGNY24 my one thought was but what if there’s an M8 MKII released? It’s precarious.
So far I am also on board to complete two years in a row of no gear. I do plan to sell off a bunch of stuff that I am not using. Only way I will acquire anything is from trade/sell and even then there are only couple synths I even want like an ARP 2600 and Malevolent or MS20.
didn’t really played „live“ or jammed on boxes last year at all.
at first I planned to get a second digitone, but since im just producing ill keep my modular, one digitone and sell all of the other stuff.
i need to update my camera, it’s 12 years old now, and can’t record 4k… i think no gear is wrong, but other gear it is.
Do guitars count? Just bought some used Dean Dave Mustaine signature guitars. I didn’t last very long.
I’m struggling. The Stylophone drone synth, the M8 II, the Yamaha SEQTRAK…and the funny thing is that I know that I absolutely don’t need those whatsoever with my current set up. But we’re so conditioned to GAS, especially around the big shows, no matter how illogical we know it is. Still holding on, but I’m not looking forward to NAMM (yet, really, I secretly am).
It’s difficult in todays society to avoid temptation.
Try working at this a day at a time. Don’t buy anything today. Don;t tell yourself you can never buy those things, just not now.
Avoid the NAMM thread also - use that time to go and turn on the kit you do have, maybe try using current gear to make some of the sounds/features you think you’d get from the things you’re GASsing over?
Very sound advice, no pun intended 
EDIT
I’m in for NGNY24 with the following exceptions:
- If TE releases OP-Z Field.
- If Elektron releases a powerful analog polysynth.
Will be selling all unused stuff in the meantime anyway…
same for the Zf from teenage engineering!
…to avoid any GAS I recommend to extremely consume the basic structure of a new thing, let that dopamine blow out and re-think the same capabilities with the stuff around you, in your personal way of effort and creation.
the Chompi feature list is just a PD patch, waiting to be created on the Organelle for instance.
the seqtrak shines a big light on TEs effort to even create such a nice piece of equipment like the OP-Z is, even though it’s like 6years old and still ahead of its time 🩵
try to hack your surrounding with what you have
Only watching YouTube videos on kit you already have works well for me too.
Sometimes I forget the reason I was lusting after a different bit of kit because I get interested in learning something on a machine I already have.
Although this can sometimes be an avoidance strategy. I guess this is all good exercise for our self-awareness skills.
indeed! i love that moment when i realize like 5 years ago I couldn’t even tell or have that imagination of things happening here and there but learned it from other things, modular for instance but only 1 max 2 manufacturers.
love the old mutable DivKid content a lot and I truly miss „knobs“
everything early rytm content @Ess 
I was hoping to join this year by calling my Ableton 12 upgrade preorder a 2023 purchase, but I also just caved on a sample expansion for a plugin. I’m going to resist future temptations as much as possible though. Good luck everyone!