…nope…another piece of gear, i can’t recall where the hek it ended up…
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In 1995 i bought a used Roland W-30 for my own hard-earned money as a teenager after getting inspired by an older friend who owned one.
It’s a simple workstation: a 12-bit, 15/30 kHz sampler with (if I remember correctly) something like 15 seconds of sample memory, 16 notes of polyphony across 8 tracks with their own dedicated mono outputs. Those specs alone are pretty mind blowing when considering that it was made about 30 years before the Digitakt. Just like the Digitakt, it has both amp and filter envelopes and an LFO. The keyboard is velocity sensitive and things like the filter envelope can be modulated with velocity. It completely lacks effects though.
It then has an 8 or 16-track sequencer (I don’t remember but I think 8) and supports advanced keygroups so you can devote one sequencer track for all drum samples. The sequencer was a pain to program and had lots of weird bugs too, but that didn’t stop me from program a couple of albums worth of songs on it over a 2-3 year period, often times until 5 am in the morning over the summer breaks.
It still works and is now a decorative feature in my studio. The buttons are really hard to press and it is in need of servicing or else I’ll soon accidently press the buttons into the chassis.
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Please tell me you still have, and still rock, that keytar hiding in the corner
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Roni Size’s Bass Station
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I didn’t even notice that, I was distracted by trying to imagine wedging a table football game into that space
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I’m mostly interested in what happened to that near complete collection of nintendo game n watch under the logitech speakers.
Juno 106 was a safe bet, could have held on to that one. My first exposure to a real synth was a juno 6 around 1999. A guy I knew intentionally maxed out a bunch of credit cards with which he bought some 1200’s and a mixer, a juno 6, a high end bass guitar and a number of other items that aren’t worth ruining your credit over then declared bankruptcy and had to leave town in a hurry so he asked me to look after a few of his various possessions and thus I had a juno 6 in my living room for about a year ruining the way I played guitar. I just wanted everything to sound like the juno arpeggiator.
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1987 - Atari ST. Great for music production and game playing.
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C64 with poke commands, then Amiga Mod Trackers (had no sampling extension), then:
PC with a simple tool to edit audio recordings (it had nothing that resembles a DAW - so it was all calculating and manually copy and paste in ”mix” mode. I still try to figure out which software that was. I think it ran under DOS. Edit: It was like a very early version of Cool Edit —IF SOMEONE HAS AN IDEA, PLZ COMMENT).
I remember the great day when I could take a Sound Blaster home.
Cassettes had a big role. I modded a tapedeck so I could change the speed at crazy ranges with something like a contact plate. I made crazy hoover riffs with that.
My first bass guitar was a piece of wood, with a screw terminal on one end and a screwed hook (for tuning) on the other end, and an old guitar string…
One speaker of a little walkman headphone set was taped to the wood as „pickup“
Did actually sound great.
It was always making music out of nothing.
Summary
Stories of „no money and abhorrent parents which should’ve been locked away into a prison“
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experienced both, but never felt nostalgic about stuff like tape loops or Soviet so called guitars 
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Bro, foosball! I got next game!
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Its a long shot: AXS: Another Experimental Softsynth?
I started on FastTracker II, because all my friends had cool Amiga 500s with ModTracker, and I could get their projects and load them into my PC with that program. Next stop was the above mentioned AXS, which is hard to find any info about these days, but was sort of a spiritual ancestor to Renoise in a way.
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This one
Yamaha PSR-7 which my parents got me when I was 7 or 8 years old. They also enrolled me in some keyboard lessons for which I am eternally grateful 🥹
Thank you, but it was rather a very early DOS version of Cool Edit. It was really just a program to cut audio recordings, it couldn‘t do anything else.
But it was all I had 
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Me too! Only just sold it last year when I had to move continent.
Had that since the late 90s 🥹
Then my setup expanded to an MS2000, and an MPC2000xl.
Then I bought a load of other gear like a Darkstar and Proteus 2000 rack, but more gear didn’t mean more joy with music. Ended up selling it all (except the DR-660 and a bass guitar which is what I started with).
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