what was your worst hardware purchase of all time?

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:30 am

oblique strategies wrote:I had an M-Audio Quattro audio/MIDI USB interface that was dreadful. It would work fine at home, so I'd take it to a gig, & it would utterly fail. I'd exclaim "Never again!"

Then it would work fine at home again for months. So I would figure, "I guess it's actually OK, must have been a fluke". I'd take it to a gig, & it would fail again!

This happened a number of times, it just kept tricking me!

I had to abandon it. Gave it to a friend who actually wanted the thing. I would have preferred smashing it to pieces! Ahhhhhh... That would been a nice feeling. Bad gear should be punished.

I had one of those and it never worked once on 3 different machines

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:43 am

My worst hardware purchase would have to be my girlfriend's vibrator

deva · Post by **deva** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:25 am

My worst hardware purchase would be back in the 80's when I bought an Oberheim analog synth then went traveling, put it in storage then sold it a few years later at a huge loss cause Midi had come out... hardly ever used it

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:31 am

deva wrote:My worst hardware purchase would be back in the 80's when I bought an Oberheim analog synth then went traveling, put it in storage then sold it a few years later at a huge loss cause Midi had come out... hardly ever used it

you're showing your age!

deva · Post by **deva** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:12 am

forge wrote:
deva wrote:My worst hardware purchase would be back in the 80's when I bought an Oberheim analog synth then went traveling, put it in storage then sold it a few years later at a huge loss cause Midi had come out... hardly ever used it
you're showing your age!

Ha! indeed

Oliver Chesler · Post by **Oliver Chesler** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:07 am

The worst piece of gear I ever bought. Airsynth:
http://www.wiretotheear.com/2008/02/29/ ... -airsynth/

supamonsta · Post by **supamonsta** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:28 am

thanks Wascal for the DX27 manual link,, I had no web access nor knowledge at the time I bought it!

I think it sounds crap, and is really really difficult to use...

I also tried to use it as a midi keyboard, but it isn't velocity sensitive, so it sends a fixed velocity (about 64) THAT I NEVER MANAGED TO CHANGE TO 127 !!!! so it is for me TOTALLY useless...

lunabass · Post by **lunabass** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:09 am

digi001 soundcard.

not because it didn't work, the soundcard worked faultlessly for 4 years... right up until digidesign decided that they weren't going to support it in any further pro tools updates.
well when i say unsupported i really mean that they actually changed further updates of pro tools so that pro tools wouldn't even boot if it was connected...pricks!

brightonalex · Post by **brightonalex** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:15 am

Baby grand piano!

It looked beautiful but I just couldn't play it. Because I have no arms.

forge · Post by **forge** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:44 am

brightonalex wrote:Baby grand piano!

It looked beautiful but I just couldn't play it. Because I have no arms.

I always knew you were armless!

groovebox · Post by **groovebox** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:51 pm

1/
Peavey SP/SX samplers - brought them from a guy in the USA and had them shipped to NZ at great cost. Brought them cheap enough tho. Took a week off work and tried to learn/use it (with the manual) - no go - been sitting in my rack now for 6 years.

2/
EMU Samplers - got a couple of these 2nd hand - one of them the LCD was stuffed and that cost what the unit cost! Really need SCSI to do anything - spent a lot of time with SCSI stuff. And as a previous poster mentioned - hard to get parts/repairs. Usable but limited.

All items were "as new" (previous owner got sick of trying to work them too!).

But then - who is to say the "Waldorf Blofield" (or whatever) thing will not turn up in a forum post like this in 2015?

Hidden Driveways · Post by **Hidden Driveways** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:04 pm

brightonalex wrote:Baby grand piano!

It looked beautiful but I just couldn't play it. Because I have no arms.

Don't buy an AirSynth on eBay... unless you want to bob your head over it.

oblique strategies · Post by **oblique strategies** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:17 pm

Ross Kemp wrote:Bitstream 3x need i say any more !

Curious -are you on a MAC or PC? I have a friend on MAC who likes his Bitstream 3x quite a bit. Not sure which generation he has, or what drivers.

Maybe he's using it differently...

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:36 pm

M-Audio Ozonic.

Piece of shit cheap and nasty toy made from recycled used Chinese condoms.

Fried my Mac's FW interface.

jasefos · Post by **jasefos** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:21 pm

sweetjesus wrote:Stiefelmusic said someone should start this thread. So here goes...

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

I had the opportunity to buy one of these for less than $500AUD when they were being cleared out ... even that price wouldn't make me jump for it. Steinberg were hosed by their "manufacturing partner" on this one.

MCU-PRO + MC-EXT + MC-EXT all the way for me baby!

MC series works better with Cubase/Nuendo than Steinberg's own Houston and also works awesomely with Live.

Houston - what a joke.

what was your worst hardware purchase of all time?

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