hey closely relates to you , machinedrum UW MKII for 650€ before the inflation.
anyway i prefer largely the Digitakt ii + Digitone + syntakt combo
Also I did regret selling my m8 but now with the V2 coming I think I don’t feel that bad. But my other regret which is not selling, is missing out on a SP1200 someone was selling during the 2000s, it was a couple of hundred but I couldn’t be bothered to go on a train to pick it up because I was too lazy.
oof. that’s a rare one. I had a white M5N for a decade and it was great fun. fucking MONSTER synth though. it’s truly gigantic. I don’t miss that. it did sound really good, but I never got enough out of it to justify the size and expense. people ask silly prices for anything Macbeth these days, but don’t always get what they’re asking.
there’s some synths/machines/pedals/etc I occasionally regret selling. but usually just from the standpoint of “this would work well with what I’m doing now, maybe I should pick one up…” not so much from a nostalgic or “they’re so expensive now…” viewpoint. there’s some I wish I would’ve gotten more money for though!
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KORG DSS-1
Bought and sold it 3x 
I was about to put mine up for sale if you’re interested. One of my very favorite synths that I’ve praised several times on here. Unemployment sucks!
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I don’t know if you’ve posted this yet, but do you actually regret anything from your recent clearance sales?
Thankfully no, but at the same time I wish I never had to sell a single piece of gear. The only time I deeply regret selling something is when I sell it for relatively little and then it shoots up in price down the line and isn’t worth buying anymore.
It’s hard for me to let go of gear, but it’s almost always for the better and I do feel weighed down by my collection as much as it also sparks joy.
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I bought my Machinedrum MK2 UW in 2018 for $700 right before the prices jumped… maybe I got yours?
I’m no longer in the US, I’m in Europe now, so I can’t take advantage of your misfortune. Though you had a fair amount of churn even when you were financially flush, so maybe no one has to feel guilty dealing with you. I hope you are soon back to that state.
As for me, the number of things of interest to this forum that I have managed to sell can be counted on one hand and each of them definitely deserved to go, no regrets. I should probably sell more, but I have stuck myself in an obscure place where I cannot speak the language to the level required to navigate financial transactions with strangers and shipping with insurance, so my neglected gear just sits there reproaching me for the increasing level of dust piling up (I have never lived anywhere with so much dust, it is a complete mystery to me where it is coming from, I am not in the Sahara).
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Fallout?
Not yet, fortunately. But, you know, Putin keeps threatening to use tactical nukes, so I should probably get the better filters for my vacuum.
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Haha are you an Italian guy who was living in Brooklyn at the time?
…and still regretting? Wow, she’s the wilfe of one’s life 
Where are you living now?
I have regretted selling a few things over the years but there have been 3 occasions I can remember where I bought items back (old Magnatone amp, Microkorg, and Tascam Portastudios). Each time I found that whatever it was I wanted to get back to with the instrument was gone. Like a lot of situations, people, times in our lives there really is no going back. I think it’s better to keep moving forward and look on times fondly but don’t waste time trying to get back there. The Portastudios were a particularly vicious cycle of selling and RE-purchasing. I think because it was the first machine I recorded on I had this crazy notion of trying to “get back to basics” in terms of recording and every time I end up thinking “what the fuck am I doing? I have a really good sounding recording set up. Why am I trying to go back to this tedious medium.” I still love the years I recorded on Portastudios but I was foolish to romanticize it. I do still periodically check Craigslist for Portastudios though. Hard lesson to learn.
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I am in Lisbon, in Portugal. A lovely country in many ways, but with a peculiar sensitivity to its borders and a national propensity to slow and ill-specified (though not low-level corrupt) bureaucracy, perhaps an overreaction to its relatively minor status within the larger union, or some historical inheritance. I am trying with the language, but verbal comprehension is a challenge. I can do better with Spanish, Italian, and German, languages I have only studied for tourist purposes, embarrassingly enough.
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I sold my comic book collection during a move because I didn’t want to carry all those boxes. Looking back, I wish I had just stored them somewhere because they were a big part of my childhood.
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Two technics sl-1200 mk2 and about 1000 vinyls of house and techno from 1998-2004
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Lol no not me, but I can pretend to be him if it will help you work something out.
On my end, I regretted selling my Nord Lead 2x so I just bought a Nord Rack 2 to replace it. I also regretted selling my DX11 and I ended up replacing that as well. Neither are the fanciest synths but I really like them both and regretted selling them pretty much right away.
I’ve sold plenty of other stuff that I miss but I only have a very small corner of a shared office for music gear so it is what it is.
I’ve always been good at letting go. I have no regrets on any synths or music gear. Sold my Monomachine mk2 and Machinedrum for 650€ each, way too late, when the prices were already climbing and that sometimes stings, but in the end it’s only money.
If there’s a piece of gear I miss, I just buy it back. Just recently bought back Roland SH-32 which is kinda crappy, but it’s also the synth I played the first Nightsatan gig with. Nostalgia made me do it. Still have a few pieces on my wantlist that I’ll buy when a good price comes my way.
In my line of work you have to be good at letting go of stuff. I buy wonderful things - vinyl, comics, books, music gear, movies, vintage video games etc. only to sell them for a profit. But that’s also the beauty of running a second hand pop culture shop. I get to satisfy that need of buying cool stuff but I also get to not fill my apartment with that stuff.
The only thing I sometimes regret selling is my collection of vintage video games a long time ago, but I’ve already acquired a lot of the handheld games and the Vectrex back through my shop and it’s in better condition than the one I had back then.
Material is just material.
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