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mks wrote: Maybe I should sell my Rhodes. That idea pains me though.

difference wrote:seeing a lot of chatter about the RNC and RNLA in here. i'm looking to expand my gear a little bit into the analog domain, would this be a good start? ideally i'd like something that is good for individual sounds and also decent for an overall mix, and don't know which would be better. i like the affordability of these units, was thinking they would be a good counterpart to the new korg volca series which is something else i'm looking at.

nowaysj wrote:ANYONE that makes beats should have an sp XoX.

Yeah the 303 is durty. But you are talking dinosaur technology, yes, I'd like one. But it is always about sample transfer. Always. I've got an old asr-x pro that is now in pieces after an aborted pad restoration attempt. But that thing had incredible thick sound. I'm a midrange heavy kind of guy and that box was heavy, but fucking hell, scsi file transfers. I'm just not down. Smart media 65mb cards... technology price/value curve is a u. Price is high at introduction, mass production price drops, becomes obsolete, price rises again - often beyond initial prices... Smart Media cards are at that point of absurdity. And one of the problems with smart media, is they are finicky. Some brands work, some don't, different brands at different capacities do and do not work. It is a mess. I've got an mc909 that I really don't use because I've never gotten around to picking up a smart media card.

Now, an old durty machine like that is useful though, an sp 303, a zoom sample track 224, but as a second tier, kind of a specialty item.

And DO NOT GET IT TWISTED: the 404sx is DUUUUURRRTTY as fuck. Yes you can load a perfectly clean 16 bit, 44.1 file on there and play it back and will play back clean... but once you start working in the machine, applying fx and resampling... you are in fucking DDUUUUURRT city. I can't hold down a key long enough for how durty the thing gets. Like imagine a kick hat and snare over some string samples... the kick and snare just smeared, no transient at all left, nothing, just solid mush it is fucking awesome. But it is so durty, I often have to bring that shit back into the comp and recreate the actual drum lines, and then kind of parallel/side chain the drums back into the beats. Do not be affeared that the good child of the bunch is too clean. He is a duuurrty fucker. Did I say duuurrty enough?

And it can be used to trigger clean shit, in fact, it's memory is quite large, so you could do a full on dj set out of the box.

Check these forums: http://sp-forums.com/ good people over there. And if you dig a bit, you will find very dope beats.

Excuse my rabid post, but the 404sx is just so dope.

GregLongman wrote:Mine has to be a b-e-a-utiful pair of Adam A77X and some monitor stands.

I've also got major GAS for a small Analogue synth (Sub Phatty/MiniBrute) and Komplete 9.

nowaysj wrote:

mks wrote: Maybe I should sell my Rhodes. That idea pains me though.

Haha, you're just playing. You know it. You're not selling the rhodes. Also bruther, I know you are about to embark on a career that should fill racks with modular gear in short time. Hang tight on that.

You do have a dark energy, yeah?

I recently sold my sub, apc 40, dope ass boss digital delay, art tube compressor, minibrute (which I really liked)... and I'm really really kicking myself. Don't do it man. And if you do get close to selling it. Drive it down here, and I'll keep it for you until your head clears.

nowaysj wrote:And if you do get close to selling it, consider armed robbery or extortion.

nowaysj wrote:Am in tears. I just lost an auction on some shadey ass shit. 55 minutes left to go on this item, it had very little interest, I was highest bidder. I'm exploring techno on maschine, so I set my iphone timer to 5 minutes before the auction ends. I go about my technoing, alarm goes off, I check the auction, 14 minutes left and counting. I'm like, whoa, I really fucked up my math on that one, so I set the time again for 10 minutes giving me 4 minutes to sit on it. Alarm goes off, sorry you didn't win the auction, it goes for 7 dollars over my bid... fucker just stole this thing from me. Am in tears. Shit was nice. It was an essentially brand new marantz pmd 720. Its a 4 track recorder but its really an 8 track mixer that comes down into 4 cassette tracks. This is a really good sounding 4 track, 19 years old and nearly brand new... FUCK FUCK FUCK

SunkLo wrote:You must learn the art of the snipe my friends.

nowaysj wrote:

mks wrote: Maybe I should sell my Rhodes. That idea pains me though.

LUNCHPADDLE wrote:

mks wrote: Maybe I should sell my Rhodes. That idea pains me though.

DONT SELL THE RHODESS!!

argh i cant tell you how badly i want one, IF i had one id never ever let it go, a good one is hard to come by for an even close to affordable price.

i have to use plugins to emulate rhodes keys and i just WISH i had a real one.
its at the very top of my most wanted list hah!

mks wrote:just straight up sampling Rhodes chords off of a Jazz, Funk or R&B record.

nowaysj wrote:Lemme check the register in my gear database for bleep labs...

Oh yeah, here it is: WANT

haha, that is the depth of it. Have been watching them from afar. I have the capacity to make a lot of money if I participate in the babylon system, and I will tell you, it is audio gear more than anything else that tempts me into participation.