what was your worst hardware purchase of all time?

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 9:58 pm

Akai mpd16

tech44 · Post by **tech44** » Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:24 pm

overdub wrote:Kawai K4r.....yeah I know (some) House freaks love it - but maaaaaan it's boring, lame, tame, dull, tedious and uninspiring.......sold it recently after it collected dust for years

I was gonna say my Kawai K5000. I had all these high hopes that I could really dig into the additive synthesis and make some cool sh1t. Yeah right

Also the Sony MDS DRE1 for djing...what a pile:

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:01 am

Tone Deft wrote:Akai mpd16

A friend loaned me that stupid thing, total POS IMO.

dcease · Post by **dcease** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:16 am

mbox 2. although i do like the pro..., but fuck pt. stoopid money suckin dongle havin, crippled ass, but pretty easy to use and decent sounding software. i dont hate protools, but 500 bucks for 48 stereo tracks and a nice reverb and compressor?

i did some a/b with the mbox 2, emu0404, mbox2 pro, and fireface400. the mbox2 sounded the worse, like it was a $50 interface with $400 software. no more digi for me. now if ableton would just get multitake recording/folder tracks, i probably would not ever open pt again. maybe not even logic...

Samsara · Post by **Samsara** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:38 am

I bought the Atari-Falcon/Cubase-Audio combo back in about 95/96 i reckon.

Oh Lord, did that machine & software suck the big one. I don't think either could have gone through any Beta testing

x

condra · Post by **condra** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:22 am

A really huge crap old organ. Piece of shit.

kaffein · Post by **kaffein** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 3:44 am

AARDVARK LX6 Pro I/O...

I bought this interface, and the quality of the hardware was amazing! Only problem was that the drivers were stil borked and crashed every 12-24 hours in which you would have to reboot the machine for it to work again. (killing the process and restarting it did nothing)

A few months later the company decided to abandon ship w/o notice. No support, No new drivers. Fucked!

The sad thing is that companies are still out there selling this product w/o mentioning you don't have working drivers and support.

suburbanbather · Post by **suburbanbather** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 4:11 am

A Dell laptop, POS would randomly decide not to turn on until I've pressed the power button for the umpteenth time. Tech support kept giving me runarounds with BS solutions(take the battery out and put it back in, download various drivers, etc...) every solution they threw at me did not work and they still would not send me a box and repair authorization slip. After numerous phone calls and emails, Dell finally had me send it back to them. Turns out the motherboard was bad. Also, when I upgraded to Live 5, it would not open. It would stop loading once it got the scanning VST's part of loading. I deleted all VST's(Reaktor, Absynth, and freebees) and Live would still stop loading once it started scanning for VST
's. Needless to say I switched to Mac and have not had a single problem since.

popslut · Post by **popslut** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:05 am

Samsara wrote:I bought the Atari-Falcon/Cubase-Audio combo back in about 95/96 i reckon.

Oh Lord, did that machine & software suck the big one. I don't think either could have gone through any Beta testing

x

Second mention for Cubase Audio on the Atari Falcon and I have to say it is probably the worst piece of shit I ever tried to make music with.

I got hired by a guy to operate his brand new Cubase Audio/Falcon setup in about '95 - he had the first one in Britain. We used it for composing the score for a contemporary dance production at the Brixton Academy and it was absolutely appalling.

It was impossible to splice two pieces of audio without a 90dB glitch and it would lock up every 45 minutes without fail and have to be unplugged to restart.

The EQ was incredibly bizarre and the volume ramps were completely inoperable.

Considering he paid about £3000 for it in 1995, it was the worst hardware purchase by anyone, ever.

jasefos · Post by **jasefos** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 11:44 am

MrSleep wrote:Yamaha A3000!

MAN THAT THINK DROVE ME NUTS!!!

Word !!!!!!

What a complete piece of shit.

The worst sampler I've ever owned.

My favourites?
I still keep 2 Ensoniq ASR10 racks - for their sound primarily !!!

sparklepuff · Post by **sparklepuff** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:13 pm

Machinesworking wrote:
rozling wrote:
sparklepuff wrote:
I know how you feel. I am stubbornly sticking with it though because a) I won't be able to afford new MIDI controllers for a long time, b) I want one with dynamic displays anyway and can't afford an SL and c) I'm kind of addicted to the custom user page functon. When you have user pages set up the way you want them it's actually very sweet.

Oh yeah and d) I would get sweet f-all for this if I sold it
if you haven't upgraded to Kore 2 for some reason, then I would.
Kore 2 is everything I hoped Kore would become, Kore 1 got trumped by Lives Racks, and other DAW innovations to the point to where it didn't fulfill it's promise IMO.
Also, realistically if you don't have Komplete 4-5 then Kore isn't half as cool. The new step sequencer, and other things in K2 make it worth it and some IMO.
I'm just happy as shit being able to scroll through presets in Kore like you would on a workstation synth, that alone sold me.
Which brings up why the fuck did Ableton switch to that 'productivity killing browser based double click..... oops I opened up another of the same dammed effect instead of browsing presets' way of searching presets????

Ok, Ok, Ok, I spent the $59 to upgrade to V.2 software. Maybe throwing just a little more money at this thing will make it usable.

cavern · Post by **cavern** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 2:07 pm

alesis multitrack firewire 12.

fucked my computer, my life, my everything. i spent WEEKS messing with it and it never worked. It was fine as an analog mixer and the on-board effects were cool. Alesis and M-audio are bad with drivers.

Machinesworking · Post by **Machinesworking** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 9:14 pm

sparklepuff wrote: Ok, Ok, Ok, I spent the $59 to upgrade to V.2 software. Maybe throwing just a little more money at this thing will make it usable.

On my desktop it improved it a ton. Also, if you sell, you'll get a better price..... NI are on my shitlist again for Battery 3, freezes Live for up to five minutes before you can use the Session/Arrange views! Blah, I'm going to end up buying the complete Ableton 7 suite just for guaranteed stability......... of course as soon as I do Battery will stabilize...... blah.

Sibanger · Post by **Sibanger** » Sun Jan 06, 2008 10:20 pm

Machinesworking wrote:..... NI are on my shitlist again for Battery 3, freezes Live for up to five minutes before you can use the Session/Arrange views! Blah, I'm going to end up buying the complete Ableton 7 suite just for guaranteed stability......... of course as soon as I do Battery will stabilize...... blah.

Is that since the 3.03 Battery 'upgrade' ?

v00d00ppl · Post by **v00d00ppl** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 4:10 am

Tone Deft wrote:Akai mpd16

i remember when they were selling them for $249US at a time that if you dropped 500-600 you could of gotten a 2000xl and used those pads for a midi controller. living proof that akai makes mistakes too.

once the trigger finger came out, i knew akai was crapping bricks. once the padkontrol came out i knew akai took way too many laxatives.

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