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adhmzaiusz wrote:Korg soundlink digital mixer. Bought it for my 828 to expand my input channels, but using the menus in the thing was like trying to find your way through pinhead's box once you get stuck in hell.

Dude, check out the Alesis AI-3. It'll convert your ADAT ins and outs to 8 analog ins and outs. They're discontinued (I think) but you can find them INCREDIBLY cheap on ebay. They're not the sort of gear that you might get emotional over, but they sure do the trick and they're solid + simple. I can't recommend it highly enough for expanding your 828 - that's exactly what I used mine for before I went mostly software.

I have two:

Yamaha DX-7 that I bought about 4 years ago on an impulse. Ended up selling it for more than I bought it for, so that was good. Never did a damn thing with it, though. What a waste.

Also: Beheringer Virtualizer. Ugh. What was I thinking.

Back in the 1970s: a breathtakingly shitty Allen and Heath six channel mixer. I wanted to do solo multitracking and got a Teac 3340 and this piece of dog doo.

More recently: the MIDIcontrol keyboard. The idea of it was good but it was really a poorly built and poorly thought out piece of kit. I use the Oxygen 8 now which is a little better, but for knobs in general I like the Kenton Control Freak.

DJRetard wrote:My worst piece of kit ever = TL audio valve compressor.

heh there's one going cheap on gumtree ! any takers

roland d110. the programing is such a pain... i gott it dirt cheap on ebay. resold it like 5 days later....

orgul wrote:roland d110. the programing is such a pain... i gott it dirt cheap on ebay. resold it like 5 days later....

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yeah i did exactly the same !! and that was before soft synths (when I was desperate for sounds of any sort !)

conny wrote:

smart1123 wrote:MC-303 or W-30 both by roland

or my behringer 802

I still got my W30 on a table.
Recently bought a Midi to USB cable to be able to hook it up with VST's.
For people who don't know, it may impress.
The 720 k disks are hard to find these days...
I've converted 113 disks to wav and stored for use in Live!
(But the sequencer was good at the time...)



// C

I remember going to a 'special' release showing of the W30.
Some keyboard genius was showing it off (name escapes me).
It was worth a pretty penny at the time. I dreamed of owning one for a long time after that. Glad I didn't ever have the cash to waste on it.

My regretful purchase was a roland drum machine. (can't remember the exact model) It was great, but a 'mate' borrowed it about 2 months after I bought it, and sold it to buy drugs.

I got a W30 a little while ago and I very much like it..

noisetonepause wrote:I got a W30 a little while ago and I very much like it..

You probably also know how to use it properly.

How much did you pay for it? (if it's not rude to ask)

Self builder PC in the windows 98 days.
+Terratec soundcard with built in waldorf HW synth.

Couple of years with computer/soundcard nightmares, nothing working proparly. Wasted about 4000 euroes right out the window.

Later got the Creamware combo: Pulsar, Luna, Scope, and the fw 8x breakout box, all new with the first drivers. Another 5-6000 eurous out the window. sold it for almost nothing a few years later!

Crappy days.

Was coming from amiga in late 80ties, atari early 90ties, then mac mid 90ties, going through win95/98 days realy made me stay away from windows for years in fear and horror. I was back to mac around 2000, and things were swinging again. Then 2005 I finaly was convinced xp wouldnt kill me, and ive been on xp since then.

sweetjesus wrote:

Poster wrote:yamaha rm1-x...
2 inch screens turned out not to be my thing..
had it for 5 days..

try using 2 line LCD!

Dude seriously though as overpriced as the RM1x was, it's the closest hardware competitor to Live (other than RS-7000 which has the same engine)

If only Live had the RM1x's groove matrix. Excellent sequencer, but dodgy sounds and terrible name. Was the hub of my little set up and I still miss it.

Now the Korg Electribe EM1, I was conned into thinking it had all the functionality of the ER1 and the EA1. In fact, it had none of the above. What a twat, should have gone for the ER1. But I got it for 100 quid second hand, so I can't really complain.

Sibanger wrote:

noisetonepause wrote:I got a W30 a little while ago and I very much like it..

You probably also know how to use it properly.

How much did you pay for it? (if it's not rude to ask)

~80 GBP. When I see them advertised it's usually for a little more than that, but I don't know if they get sold.

andydes wrote:

sweetjesus wrote:

Poster wrote:yamaha rm1-x...
2 inch screens turned out not to be my thing..
had it for 5 days..

try using 2 line LCD!

Dude seriously though as overpriced as the RM1x was, it's the closest hardware competitor to Live (other than RS-7000 which has the same engine)

If only Live had the RM1x's groove matrix. Excellent sequencer, but dodgy sounds and terrible name. Was the hub of my little set up and I still miss it.

Now the Korg Electribe EM1, I was conned into thinking it had all the functionality of the ER1 and the EA1. In fact, it had none of the above. What a twat, should have gone for the ER1. But I got it for 100 quid second hand, so I can't really complain.

i really wish yamaha would use that same sequencing engine in a decent box.

they have been the king of hardware sequencers since the original QY boxes..

Guy Smiley.. way to pull up a 3 year old thread:P

Shit!

noisetonepause wrote:

Sibanger wrote:

noisetonepause wrote:I got a W30 a little while ago and I very much like it..

You probably also know how to use it properly.

How much did you pay for it? (if it's not rude to ask)

~80 GBP. When I see them advertised it's usually for a little more than that, but I don't know if they get sold.

Bargain!

I'm sure they were like a few grand when they first came out!