You rebuild your battle station from scratch on a 10k budget. What do you get?

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Stand alone setup
Sequencing/DAW/Sampling Roland MV-8000 $500
Octatrack $1,200
Reaper $65
Synths Virus TI $1,000
Kurzweil K2000 $500
Dreadbox Erebus v3 $600
Make Noise 0-Coast $500
Processing FMR RNC 1773 $175
Meris Mercury7 $300
Meris Polymoon $300
Lexicon MX400 $300
Misc Neutrik patchbay $100
Furman M8Lx $150
Cables $500
8U rack case $250
2 tier keyboard stand $100
Mackie 1604VLZ3 $1,000
Total $7,540

I’d use the leftover cash to buy monitors, recording interface and a laptop. This rig could be used for recording and performing and should easily fit into a hatchback. Further, you could write and record complete projects without your computer. You have the VA polyphony, bread and butter sounds, multitimbrality, modular analog and 3 sampling powerhouses that should be able to cover any genre. You could sub in an Akai MPC Live for the Roland MV if you prefer something more modern and could still fly in under $10k.

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@konputa where do you get a TI for 1k??? :scream:

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MV8000 for $500? Must be a lucky shot. In EU it is more a 700EU deal at the moment, too much really.

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$399 or $500. Take your pick.


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$1000.

While I’m at it, here is a K2000 for under $500.

Did any other prices look incredulous?

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Buy a used Ford Econoline and acoustic treat the inside and with the left over money reacquire all my previous gear.
Also have the same graphics as the Scooby van but in black & grey electron mk1 colors and instead of those flowers it will be digis and analog heats.
Also it would be named MysteryMachines.

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Yes, my Reverb feed is filtered on EU sellers though

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The OP didn’t specify a currency so I just went with my local form of specie. :slight_smile:

You can change locale on Reverb, btw.

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Digitakt. Headphones. Nuff said.

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Tell me about the Drumatix… it looks like a neat piece of kit

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6U of Eurorack
Octatrack MK2
Mac
Audio interface
Genelecs
Room treatment

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i´d spend most of it for speakers, a small(ish) but good mixing desk and a cirklon sequencer.

then a bunch of nice and epensive fx pedals (reverb,delay,drive,compressor,filters,etc.).

a sampler (Octatrack - i´d wish i could replace it with something else)

some cheaper (drum) synths, gimmicks, sequencers

o.k. no money left -
but no problem - if i had that budget now i´d do it that way.

pretty sure i could afford some cables and a crappy 2-track recorder anytime soon after that investment … :wink:

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I’d rather not derail the thread. There is a multipage thread on the Drumatix over at Muffwiggler that is quite informative.

The PDF manual also goes over all its capabilities.

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I’m in the process now, although it as much about getting rid of stuff as it is adding/replacing.

I’m going for “Less but Better” minimalist approach. The battle station should hopefully be operational in January.

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D#mn! I should have mentioned that I live in Germany. But thanks for sharing! :+1:

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