When I was still using my UA Apollo as my Audio Interface and they threw all their FX plugins at me, their recreation of this box was the one I used by far the most. Would be so cool to have the real thing.
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Bonkers craigslist score - I made an unexpected four hour round trip yesterday evening to pick up THREE Roli Lumi/Roli Piano Mās for $25 total. They cost $250 new, each!
Thereās a lot of negativity online for them, but for $25, let me tell you, they are sick as heck. Their app is not supported on my relatively recent android phone lol, which means I canāt connect them via Bluetooth - but itās not like Iāve ever needed a wireless connection before. And they look very cool lit up in person, I care about that, idgaf. Like I understand people who paid full price for them saying they feel cheap - and maybe this is the āi like nice things but live on social worker moneyā ventricle of my heart speaking - but they donāt feel THAT bad. Theyāre tiny two octave MPE controllers! Iāll take that trade-off. And the software DOES work on my old tablet, which has recently become primarily my eight year oldās Spotify and graphic novel machine lol. Weāre gonna have to take turns.
I had looked at these online a few times and considered picking one up with their learn-to-play-keys software, but was hella priced out. But now that Iāve got them Iām actually considering paying $120 for a year of lessons. What a mitzvah. Havenāt even plugged them into a laptop yet but Iām looking forward to a long online work meeting this afternoon to go deeper with them. Thanks, friendly craigslist guy who ādidnt use them and just wanted to get rid of them!ā Praise too to the goddess of secondhand gear 
Intentions: mess around with MPE, use them in a super mobile setup, maybe learn to play keys a little?
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Turbosound TFX122M-AN
Intentions: Securing a proper monitoring for our EMOM artists, no matter where the event is happening. (Doing mainly one off pop-up events at varying locations atm.)
Also: Classic āThievery protectionā 
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My Amalgamod Case. 10/10
Intention: Record and play live with the same setup with no unpatching finally!
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A rather spiffing Poly Ample, picked up on a bit of a deal. I have to say, two days in, that this is a truly truly great bit of kit that I wish had existed much earlier in my gear career. And to be honest something everyone (or at least everyone with a guitar/bass) should buy now. Really. Itās just that great.
In essence itās nothing new or groundbreaking. Its a kind of Kemper profiler type thing at an affordable cost (of the sort you see loads of around now at well below the premium prices that they used to cost - whether from the likes of IK/Tonex, Line6, Boss, even Mooer).
The critical difference is that this just does away with the complexity for the sake of it you get with almost every other option. Itās stripped bare down to just what you need. Just treble, bass, mids, gain, volume, boost and reverb and thats it. Kind of like a normal guitar amp for a normal guitar player
Behind that you get 56 preselected, and really very decently modeled/emulated amps ranging from 60s British classics to nu-wave high gain monsters and a lot of stuff in between.
There are some frills. A nice touch responsive control surface, a mono/stereo out and (if you can be bothered), midi control and the ability to upload set lists, presets etc. And a pleasant, if basic reverb based on Shepherds Bush Empire (of all things, presumably lifted from the Poly Verbs thingy that shares the same form factor).
But thats it. No ability to upload new IRs or models. No ability to mess around honing stuff for the sake of it. Zero opportunity to indulge in nerdery for the sake of it. No temptation to fritter your life away assembling a hard drive full of 10000 cabinet IRs and 700 different emulated heads. No fancy sound shaping. None of that.
The bottom line is that this fills a gap (enough amps in a box to basically do any job required) whilst being just super immediate and easy to use. You canāt be distracted into wasting time on deep tone tweaking or IR downloading/uploading when you should be just playing. So you just play. It contrasts massively with the modelling pedal I had a couple of years back which sounded decent but had endless flexibility, a control app to fiddle with, and library upon library of stuff online to fill it with. Leading to me wasting hours and weeks indulging my hoarding and geeking out instincts assembling and cataloguing hundreds of IRs of different cabinets, etc to no real purpose at all, rather than just getting stuck into making soundz. Thankfully, I pulled away, dumped the pedal and got on with my life.
But this, this is good. Really good. Seriously try one or get one. Its awesome. I think Iām in love with a small orange and white box. There, Iāve said it. Now back to noodling on the sofa.
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Wavelab 12 Pro.
I promised myself if it went on sale again Iād get it and at half price couldnāt resist.
Intentions: now that my studio downsizing/right-sizing has been complete for pretty much all of 2025 and Iām actually making music with itā¦ make a release. Been 20 years since one of those and that was only to minidisk and a dozen people. (I think some people actually got cassettes at the time too).
3 songs over the weekend done. Good start I think, if a bit later than expected.
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This is effectively downsizing for me but I think this setup could be very strong contender in a price/performance ratio contest for small or starter setups. I got the mac mini M4 pro which is twice the price compared to non-pro, but itās still sub $2000 for all three thingmajigs. Side/upgrading to the Bitwig interface could be worth the extra money if you want CV connectivity and plan on using a mixer since it has very few inputs. Keyboard for size reference.
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Beautiful set up. Can I ask for how much does that case cost? Cant find the price anywhere.
DMed
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Iām smitten with the design of this pedal. It had me at the Gen X roller skate. Iām intrigued. Ahh, so they did the Beebo. Cool!
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I think youāll find that setup works quite well. I have a slightly bigger version, but I find that itās all I really need. M4 Mac Mini (standard version), Focusrite Clarett8Pre+++YadaYada(whichever the version is called). I do have the Rupert Neve transformer DI for a bit more color coming in, and the Really Nice Compressor (used only once in a while) but the core of the setup is basically the same. Iāve also downsized my synth setup to basically two devices as well. Iām trying to maintain just what I need to do what I want to do now, rather than accumulate. (very different for me, as thatās definitely not how I used to operate, even though Iāve always appreciated limitations within setups) Now I just have one keyboard synth for playing, and a Digitone II for composing. I donāt really use them together much, as the two activities are very different things for me, but itās nice having a setup thatās just the core of what I need to be creative. 
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Absolutely beautiful!
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Been putting together a field recording setup, last piece of the puzzle arrived yesterday (Deuter Speed Lite 30).
Comfortably fits Rode Blimp with Clippy mics in baffled stereo config and tripod.
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Amalgamod cases are great, use one for my live set all the time. Youāre going to be having fun
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Reunited and it feeeeeels so good!
I had a black mk2 for a while but sold it on, since I was immersed in the DT and convinced that sample-based drums were the answer. Naturally, after a while of scrolling through the same samples, I found myself missing the Rytm sound ā and Iām so happy to have it back now. The filters, the distortion, this thingās got so much sauce.
I wanted a mk1 this time around ā I find the mk1 design/UX kind of charming and retro, and definitely appreciate the smaller form factor. The pads are terrible for finger drumming, but work great for everything else (mutes, scenes, selecting tracks etc.) so I still get lots of use out of them.
Intention is to make beats, ping filters, crank the overdrive, blend it all up with Direct Jump, maybe even attempt to get some music out of it (TBD).
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Now I want one back too 
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looks clean that wan. very nice 
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Now Iāve got Peaches & Herb stuck in my head so, thanks for that.
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