The One That Got Away

g3o2 · 2023-02-13T00:57:54.584Z

I used to own a Roland D-50, JD-800 and JP-8000 until 2000. With the recent boutique editions (D05, JD08), I was tempted (portability) despite a Kronos and a Kurzweil still in my setup. Since I’ve got a Prophet, I do not look back at all. I’ve got enough gear for now, that is until I sell my K2600r.

metalfalcon · 2023-02-13T17:39:44.993Z

Poly evolver. Traded for an Analog Keys +$200 (this was based on the new price of the analog keys at the time being like $1699). Stupid stupid stupid.

HoldMyBeer · 2023-02-13T18:40:32.584Z

About 6 years ago I was in a local music shop, and they had a vintage Prophet 5, in good shape and good working order. They wanted $3200 for it, which was a decent price at the time. It didn’t last long. A couple of years later I decided it was time to get one, but in that time the prices had doubled. It wasn’t the one that got away, but the one that I never had. The massive jump in vintage synths in recent years have been crazy. It’s wild to see what people will pay for a Juno now.

g3o2 · 2023-02-13T19:28:19.425Z

You’d be better off with a Rev 4.

HoldMyBeer · 2023-02-13T19:32:45.288Z

Certainly. Sounds great and no maintenance issues.

Kraus · 2023-02-13T19:44:04.205Z

Emu E5000 Ultra sampler. Got it free in 2017 from the university I was teaching at (they were throwing it away). I mainly played guitar at the time and didn’t even have a MIDI keyboard to trigger it with. A year later I had to move house and gave it to a friend. I eventually realised what I had done and tried to get it back but the guy said no.

dedersen · 2023-02-13T20:22:29.284Z

I have parted with a machinedrum AND a monomachine. Still not entirely sure what got into me at the time, but I sorely regret it now. The MM was sold quite cheaply as well, before the crazy price hikes.

Dibek · 2023-02-13T21:02:20.848Z

They’re relatively cheap in the used market here in Europe, 200-300 Euros should buy you one.

Annihilation_Squares · 2023-02-14T00:07:51.558Z

HoldMyBeer:

The massive jump in vintage synths in recent years have been crazy.

Really crazy. I paid an eighth of weed each for the SH101 and Arp Solus mentioned in the opening post in 1995. I’d keep the 101 but for the prices they go for I’d love to be able to sell that ARP now!

Kraus · 2023-02-14T00:08:37.209Z

Unfortunately I’m in New Zealand ^___^
So I would probably have to spend more like 5-600 Euro, if I could find one.

But really I just feel dumb for giving it away, rather than actually wanting to have one now. If that makes sense.

HoldMyBeer · 2023-02-14T00:37:41.426Z

Wow, that’s the best SH-101 trade I’ve ever heard of! I remember about 7 years ago a friend offered me a red one for $350, and I was like, nah, too steep. Now they go for like 5 times that, haha.

palm · 2023-02-14T00:47:29.136Z

sold shitloads of stuff…

wish I kept the A4

Annihilation_Squares · 2023-02-14T00:48:12.996Z

@HoldMyBeer I sold that dang 101 for $100

Can’t remember what I got for the ARP but it was definitely something dumb like that.

HoldMyBeer · 2023-02-14T00:52:22.498Z

Dang. Well, those SH-101’s were practically given away for so long. I swear I saw a promotion one time at a gas station for a free 101 with a fill-up of gas. It may have been a dream.

Had we all known, we all would have stocked up when they were being given away and enjoying reitirement now!

g3o2 · 2023-02-14T07:31:37.976Z

Kraus:

But really I just feel dumb for giving it away, rather than actually wanting to have one now. If that makes sense.

With time comes negative memory loss: there was certainly a very good reason why you had decided to give it away in the past

Ahaas1138 · 2023-02-16T18:31:52.466Z

2-3 years ago I passed on a $600 monomachine

Schnork · 2023-02-17T13:43:08.519Z

Korg MS2000. The first synth I bought, together with monitors, a new pc, Behringer BCR2000 and a 49 keys midi keyboard from the first money I earned at a shitty burger flipping job (6€/hour) on the weekends (still went to school). The MS2000 was 300€ on ebay, looked brand new. Huge, gorgeous looking keyboard synth. Around that time I seriously got into doing more and more drugs. Not long until I had sold my MS2000 (didn’t even had the time to learn how to use it, lol) for 300 again, sold all sorts of other stuff, the monitors were stolen from my flat (probably by someone I knew), lived without a door for two months and by that time, the Korg MS2000 had doubled in value.
Idk…something inside me wants it back…

Btw, I still have the Behringer BCR2000 and the M-Audio keyboard, both still work!

Ahaas1138:

2-3 years ago I passed on a $600 monomachine

Yeah, me, too. MD and MM were both around 650-750€ at that time (when was that, five years ago?) Didn’t have the money, though and by the time I had saved up some, they were already north of 1K.
I’m happy with OT, AR and AK, though. Not chasing the silver boxes…

v00d00ppl · 2023-02-17T16:25:58.949Z

ASR-10 for 200 used in good condition. I thought I can keep buying them at that price forever. I think the same guitar center had the ASR-X regular edition for 70 dollars. I wasn’t making money back then. I should have jumped and got both. Circa 2009

Jigs · 2023-02-17T16:38:03.187Z

Saw Heston Blumenthal on Room 101 last night and he put in “Food that doesn’t taste as good as we remember it”

I’ve revisited some gear that I got a little bit nostalgic about then remembered why I sold them. I’ve also hung onto gear that i’m sentimental about (first keyboard, first sampler etc) that I know i’ll never use again.

chaocrator · 2023-02-18T06:15:06.163Z

ha! „got away“

back in my 20s typical music producer here in ex-USSR only could afford a computer with cracked software.

my 30s were the era of DAWs and VSTs, when dedicated gear seemed to be just unnecessary and obsolete.

so i started getting gear only in my 40s, and nothing gets away from me. at least because it’s eventually going to be even more expensive, so why pay moar?