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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:30 am
by forge
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
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 2:43 am
by knotkranky
My worst hardware purchase would have to be my girlfriend's vibrator
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:25 am
by deva
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
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:31 am
by forge
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!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:12 am
by deva
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
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:07 am
by Oliver Chesler
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:28 am
by supamonsta
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...
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:09 am
by lunabass
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!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:15 am
by brightonalex
Baby grand piano!
It looked beautiful but I just couldn't play it. Because I have no arms.
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:44 am
by forge
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!
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:51 pm
by groovebox
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?
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:04 pm
by Hidden Driveways
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.
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:17 pm
by oblique strategies
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...
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:36 pm
by hambone1
M-Audio Ozonic.
Piece of shit cheap and nasty toy made from recycled used Chinese condoms.
Fried my Mac's FW interface.
Re: what was your worst hardware purchase of all time?
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:21 pm
by jasefos
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.