what was your worst hardware purchase of all time?

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:51 pm

Stiefelmusic said someone should start this thread. So here goes...

me: Steinberg Houston... thank god I could trade it for something else.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:55 pm

My first music computer

futureproof · Post by **futureproof** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:58 pm

Ensoniq ASR-X because some things were sooo cool about it (the sample mangling and efx) while other things were sooo bad( (the sequencing) that I just had to get rid of it.

This is back in my hardware days BTW so I didnt have the option to sequence it via my comp.

stiefelmusik · Post by **stiefelmusik** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:07 pm

well, as i said in my other post, the EMU Proteus FX. what a dog.

i also can't say i've been using my Yamaha MT8X 8-track cassette recorder much lately!

one · Post by **one** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:18 pm

behringer virtualizer fx. well, it was the cheapest of the cheap.
never sold it (don't know why), but now it's duty is to protect my virus from dust falling into unused jacks

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Poster · Post by **Poster** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:30 pm

yamaha rm1-x...
2 inch screens turned out not to be my thing..
had it for 5 days..

braj · Post by **braj** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:30 pm

The very first Akai sampler, the one with the mini disks and the separate rack mounted disk drive with the little slots to put the disks. It was a little better after I bought an AX-73 and could run it through the filters, but a Casio SK-1 would almost have been more musically useful. Makes me really appreciate Simpler!

smart1123 · Post by **smart1123** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 9:38 pm

MC-303 or W-30 both by roland

or my behringer 802

braj · Post by **braj** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:06 pm

How about my old Casio RZ-1 drum machine? It was OK after I got a digital delay and reverb and hooked it all through my 8 channel mixer, but at that point it really cost $1000 for a mediocre drum machine. But it let you sample a second of stuff

and you could split that into four 1/4 second samples! Whoopee!

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 10:09 pm

single-X keyboard stand. ARGH! that midi controller dangling back and forth....bleh.

Kas. · Post by **Kas.** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:16 pm

braj wrote:The very first Akai sampler, the one with the mini disks and the separate rack mounted disk drive with the little slots to put the disks. It was a little better after I bought an AX-73 and could run it through the filters, but a Casio SK-1 would almost have been more musically useful. Makes me really appreciate Simpler!

That´s the S612! How on earth can you not love it? Those sliders for loop-points are a stroke of genius and it comes with a free analogue filter with lfo! It´s got this great, warm, heavy sound, it glitches when you move the sliders or detune but does so in a very warm yet digital way, it even accepts MIDI! Dirt cheap too.

But then again, I also own and like the SK-1.....

sweetjesus · Post by **sweetjesus** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:18 pm

Poster wrote:yamaha rm1-x...
2 inch screens turned out not to be my thing..
had it for 5 days..

try using 2 line LCD!

Dude seriously though as overpriced as the RM1x was, it's the closest hardware competitor to Live (other than RS-7000 which has the same engine)

braj · Post by **braj** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:26 pm

Kas. wrote:
braj wrote:The very first Akai sampler, the one with the mini disks and the separate rack mounted disk drive with the little slots to put the disks. It was a little better after I bought an AX-73 and could run it through the filters, but a Casio SK-1 would almost have been more musically useful. Makes me really appreciate Simpler!
That´s the S612! How on earth can you not love it? Those sliders for loop-points are a stroke of genius and it comes with a free analogue filter with lfo! It´s got this great, warm, heavy sound, it glitches when you move the sliders or detune but does so in a very warm yet digital way, it even accepts MIDI! Dirt cheap too.

But then again, I also own and like the SK-1.....

This was when it was new and tech was changing fast. It wasn't terribly useful and it was hard to find disks at the time.

It was my first experience with sampling and I wasn't impressed.

mosca · Post by **mosca** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:33 pm

peavey synth

cant even remember the name - dpm1se maybe

brrrrrrrrrr i shudder now

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Hypomixolydian · Post by **Hypomixolydian** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 11:35 pm

A Casio MIDI guitar (I can't remember the model number), which I still have. I feel guilty selling it to someone else knowing how much crap it is.
Absolutely bad tracking!!! I bought it because I didn't know any better and that seeing I am primarily a guitar player I thought it would be easier to input stuff into a sequencer.
To this day I still hate the salesperson who sold it to me.