What's your latest purchase & what are your intentions with it? [pics ftw] (Part 3)

SP-404 MKII
Planning to make an album with it and the Syntakt.

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I’m all about the iQ dry tile saws. Way less mess. Their new table saw is rad!

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a vacuum does seem way easier than all that water, thats sick too. i should get into masonry im drawn to these saws

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They’re fun to use. Layout for tile is the brain breaker.

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Waldorf Micro Q Phoenix Edition. In almost perfect condition, I know it can be emulated now and I probably overpaid, though I just couldn’t resist - quite rare in Australia.

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I miss my microQ. It was just the standard yellow edition. They definitely got something special going on inside. The mod matrix really gives sound options like no other (at least compared to synths of its era), and its sonic footprint is kind of a hyper-plastic spongy crystalline thing somewhat akin to the Digitone.

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I picked this up yesterday and it is blowing my mind off. Incredible fun, and just what I needed over the summer holiday when it’s too hot to go outside.

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Lovely!

My first synth and I still have it. Discounted floor model with the 75 voice expansion card.

Had to remove the expansion some years ago as it started acting up and blocking the bootup. 25 voices is more than enough for me anyway, though it was probably nice if you were maxing it out as a 16-part do-it-all machine (never did that). Big focus on multitimbrality in those days.

Not the easiest UI to navigate but I always liked the sound (YMMV). Will always hold a special place for me and I will never sell it.

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I was expecting to be a bit disappointed with the sound, though to my ears it has that magic a lot of early 2000’s VA’s have - perhaps with a bit more weight, filters are very good, effects are …well, let’s not go there :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I had to buy another ADAT interface. The last one I bought I managed to break the doors on the first time I plugged it in. After abour four years I have been forced to admit defeat on using electrical tape to suspend the Toslink cables in the plugs… also Behringer, so it may just have stopped working.

this is easily the driest post on this thread ever, and then least fun studio spend EVER. Try and beat this record.

some time ago I bough two pack of short midi cables from amazon, one red, one blue.
they were terrible quality, one was way shorter then the other.

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Remember, all I’m offering is the truth.

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goddamit, should’ve known, the store name was Morpheus appliances.

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No way, you made that up, right?

yes :slight_smile:

except the cables part. they are crap.

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:rofl:

when I first got into electronic music making, I bought a three-pack of midi cables from Radio Shack. they’re red, blue and yellow. I still have them, they still work, and they’re my “favorite midi cables.” yes, that’s a thing.

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I only use the red one, I think I threw the blue one, it was so short I couldn’t connect anything with it. they were supposed to be 30cm so I’d have DN or EC4 next to the rytm and it should’ve been enough, but one was way less then 30 so couldn’t connect anything with it.

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Ha, same here! I think they’re almost 20 years old at this point!

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