What was the worst gear that you ever owned?
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What was the worst gear that you ever owned?
For me it was....
behringer tube composer pro.
And the gear that most lost its value......
EMU XL7 in 18 months I lost..............
1600 CAN. if you include tax! DAM YOU EMU!
Or I guess it could have been my EMU E5000........
2100 in three years
That is the way it goes I guess. Now I just buy software and upgrade it.
Or buy OLD hardware.
behringer tube composer pro.
And the gear that most lost its value......
EMU XL7 in 18 months I lost..............
1600 CAN. if you include tax! DAM YOU EMU!
Or I guess it could have been my EMU E5000........
2100 in three years
That is the way it goes I guess. Now I just buy software and upgrade it.
Or buy OLD hardware.
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I used to have a Roland JV2080. It was just before softsamplers and romplers took off. Had an idea I needed acoustic instrument samples - mostly orchestral... So I sold my Microwave XT and bought the 2080...
Kept the 2080 for a short while then sold that as well - I was very disappointed. Now I miss my XT. But at least there are competitive VSTs - but without that nice orange powder coating and surface full of knobs.
Cheers,
Mikael
Kept the 2080 for a short while then sold that as well - I was very disappointed. Now I miss my XT. But at least there are competitive VSTs - but without that nice orange powder coating and surface full of knobs.
Cheers,
Mikael
he he - another vote here for the Quattro - what a black hole in music technology history - I couldnt get a sound out of it on 3 different computersLeft Eye Dominant wrote:The MAudio Quattro, crap sound, cross channel bleeding and the thing got so hot that it could actualy cause a first degree burn if you touched it. Thankfully it stopped working thirteen months after purchase!
then a bit of trawling the internet I found out most people who owned it seemed to have problems with it
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After a dreadful experience with the Quattro, I swore that I would never buy another M Audio product EVER!!! Shame because the Project Mix i/o gets some good reviews (mind you so did the Quattro).forge wrote:
he he - another vote here for the Quattro - what a black hole in music technology history - I couldnt get a sound out of it on 3 different computers
then a bit of trawling the internet I found out most people who owned it seemed to have problems with it
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my worst gear was a peavey sampler i imported from usa a while ago ,
it came with 2 audio expanders ,was 3 units high , only 4 seconds sampling memory & if i can remember the sampler unit had 8 meg or memory .
at the time this was pure luxury , i could not make it work without having to go thru the manual as the menu system was so complicated .
once akai came with their nice sounding samplers i moved the peavey in the attic , it's still sitting there .
it came with 2 audio expanders ,was 3 units high , only 4 seconds sampling memory & if i can remember the sampler unit had 8 meg or memory .
at the time this was pure luxury , i could not make it work without having to go thru the manual as the menu system was so complicated .
once akai came with their nice sounding samplers i moved the peavey in the attic , it's still sitting there .
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