What was your first ever bit of kit?

leaveittothepros · Post by **leaveittothepros** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:02 pm

very first bit of gear I ever used to make my own music was a karaoke machine...

dual deck..Two tapes....swapping decks- overdub..overdub.. overdub...

formatk · Post by **formatk** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:03 pm

leaveittothepros wrote:very first bit of gear I ever used to make my own music was a karaoke machine...

dual deck..Two tapes....swapping decks- overdub..overdub.. overdub...

atually, yeah I used to do that same thing!

andydes · Post by **andydes** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:05 pm

Fender Squire Strat.

But when our drummer moved to Roterdam for a year, I "temporarily" replaced him with a Yamaha RM1X so we could keep jamming.

By the time he got back, our 4 piece indy/rock band also had a Novation Nova, a couple of Korg Electribes and a pair of Technics, and wasn't quite the same as when he left it.

I miss all those flashing lights, but don't have the desk space.

b0unce · Post by **b0unce** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:07 pm

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:10 pm

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 3:36 pm

PT-1, motherb*tches!

http://www.laretrotienda.com/fotos/varios/CasioPT1.JPG
http://www.synthmuseum.com/casio/caspt101.html

-the recording function still inspires my Max/MSP work today. No joke.

jdp · Post by **jdp** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:05 pm

I built my PAIA 2700/4700 in 1975, soldered every resistor & capacitor; it's not quite as big as this one:

Cheers,

Joel

DIgiDennis · Post by **DIgiDennis** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:09 pm

this

and this

Amiga was runing DrT's KCS...a most wicked sequencer app, nothing like it IMO unticl recently, and i used the amiga for some tracking aswell

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i found some screens here ( scroll to Dr.T's Keyboard Con...S) is on atari though but looks much like it....i wish i still had the disks for it would be fun to try it with an emu
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leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:18 pm

tascam 4-track
cheap-o dynamic microphone that the store threw in with the 4-track.
SH-101
shortwave radio
borrowed casio sk-1 (from cool uncle)
bunch of stomp boxes

that was my first electronic music rig. pretty fun.

.lm.

Adonis · Post by **Adonis** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:21 pm

MPC 2000xl

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:25 pm

Machinate wrote:PT-1, motherb*tches!

http://www.laretrotienda.com/fotos/varios/CasioPT1.JPG
http://www.synthmuseum.com/casio/caspt101.html

-the recording function still inspires my Max/MSP work today. No joke.

Damn... I remember having one of those, too! I dropped it in the bath, and it still worked...

M. Bréqs · Post by **M. Bréqs** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:25 pm

Tech 12's and a Realistic brand mixer from Radio Shack.

My next piece of gear was an Akai S-01 sampler. It's biggest selling feature was 8 sample polyphony and 16 bit resolution (in mono).

SubFunk · Post by **SubFunk** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:26 pm

a yamaha SU10 pocket sampler, i still have and use... mainly as a midi controller for live, it has those really nice rubber buttons and you can power it via batteries. or for some of the eefects which are really cool lofi sounding and it has a nasty filter, i mean really, really nasty.

Contra · Post by **Contra** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:33 pm

muscleandhate wrote:

ahh yes, this was my second kit.....

the good ol days,

this was my first.....

rasputin · Post by **rasputin** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 4:37 pm

...the first electronic instrument I had was a Roland SH-1000. That was in the late 70s sometime. But I really didn't know what to do with it...

Time passed.

In the early 90s a friend loaned me a Roland SC-55 and little Mac Plus he wasn't using, and that was the beginning. But now I'm almost 100% software.

One of my current projects is to sample the ROM waveforms out of my E-mu Morpheus to use in software samplers...

r.

What was your first ever bit of kit?

Besides the usual guitar/bass/drum kit...