The Regretful Purchase List!

i know what you mean crossings... the thing is, it's not that i'm unhappy with my oxygen 8, its a solid piece of kit. but i still think i should have saved up to get a better controller for the long term, cuz i'm looking into getting a korg microkontrol, that thing looks dope.

Spirit wrote:...oh, and a roland tr-505...

yep, the tr-505 is top of my list. plus some crap roland keyboard sampler i bought in the the late 80s.

akai s2000 damn that screen is tiny
roland d-10 got ripped off for it
500gig HD got it for storing samples and projects, shit fell apart within 2 months
eb16 just crap really imo
mackie onyx 1620 pre-fader, pre-insert and pre-eq recording outs, gtfoh

_Stilo_ wrote:

djray182 wrote:a red korg electribe, to sample with. it was just to much so i got a dr sample 303. much better, it was kinda my first beat machine now that i think about it..

The Electribes are great machines, if you know what to use them for.

lol the only thing i saw it useful for was retarded as s dance music. the only thing i liked about that machine was the tubes.

Probably a computer. I spend way too much time on this forum.

DIGI!

Bong Bong

originally my sp 202 and tascam 414 mk portastudio, both two things I've come to enjoy the past 7-8 years (they were also the first pieces of external gear that I had). I mastered that 202, use it occasionally and the 414, haven't used it in a minute but I have so many memories with it.

I had a Roland vp 9000 for a while , the concept was good but the sound was terrible ( like you have always a chorus on ) , i kept it for a month ( when you think about the original retail price when it came out ) .Also i bought a Yamaha Cs 6 r from a friend of mine for really cheap and sold it after two weeks trying to manage one of the most stupid user interface i ever tried .

Ooh I've remembered some others.

Yamaha A4000 sampler. Should have been brilliant .. probably still is .. if you have a degree in astrophysics! Oh, and are prepared to wait about an hour for anything to load.

Shame about the VP9000, have always been curious about that one. Celemony Melodyne (software) does the same sort of thing very well, check it out.

I regret paying for the hooker who gave me VD. Purchase I will regret till I die.

some sh!tty audio technica drum mics that i had no use/need for
also a step down transformer, when i thought i needed it for my mpc, but didn't...

they're the only things that lost me money, eveything else i got for a price i think i'll be able to get back should i change my mind.

On behalf of someone else: an E-mu ESI2000 - they regretted it being 'complicated' (how !?!?) - so I got a bargain y'day

Yamaha A4000's are awesome!
...but like too much of yammy gear the user interface is torturous
(till you get used to it lol)


...quite interesting how more modern gear is popping up.


I regret having to carry a roland RS 202 strings home when was way younger, same goes for moving a yammy dx7 - I was surprised not to see bricks or lead inside the case - but no regrets buying them....

Spirit wrote:On behalf of someone else: an E-mu ESI2000 - they regretted it being 'complicated' (how !?!?) - so I got a bargain y'day

Yamaha A4000's are awesome!
...but like too much of yammy gear the user interface is torturous
(till you get used to it lol).

I can get my head around complex stuff (I program computers for a day job) but I like my gear to be straightforward. After all a piano, a guitar or a sax aren't exactly complex to operate .. of course they're incredibly difficult to master but that's another story!

Had the A4000 not suffered from dreadful load times I would have persevered.

rubicon r5a monitors, had no bass nothing translated well through them
m-audio audiophile usb, was always acting funny, sometimes my cpu wouldn't recognise it
behringer composer pro-xl rack compressor, has no soul and lacks character i prefer vsts to it any day.

mpd 24, for thinking i could use Reason

i think it was all good until i used an mpc... after that, i realized i was spending way too much time to make beats... the work flow just wasn't there for me -- even after reading two books and making 10+ tracks.

wish i could have kept it though, but traded plus cash for the 2500, but i haven't looked back. CAPS LOCK in logic 8 = made up savings.

I can get my head around complex stuff (I program computers for a day job) but I like my gear to be straightforward. After all a piano, a guitar or a sax aren't exactly complex to operate .. of course they're incredibly difficult to master but that's another story!

Had the A4000 not suffered from dreadful load times I would have persevered.

I was commenting more on yamahas usually counter-intuitive UIs - wasn't having a dig! I like my gear to be straightforward too...

The load time is def an issue tho...