Gear lust

[nowaysj]

$2800

[mks]

Oh wow.

So those $50 drum machines from Teenage Engineering?

Theyre $60... And there's a range of them: a synth, a bass, and a drum... And they sync with each other... AND Korg Volcas.



It's like we're entering a new golden age of hardware...

http://createdigitalmusic.com/2015/01/n ... gineering/

http://discchord.com/blog/2015/1/21/tee ... eview.html

https://soundcloud.com/peterkirn/sets/t ... on-samples

These little things sound really cool. Jeez, I've been lost in gear lust this week.

[nowaysj]

I can defo confirm this has been the worst gas of my life.

[fragments]

You mean that TE stuff?

I had the biggest crush on the Op-1. People saying it has a really high noise floor...

Also, frag, have you considered the possibility that you got a lemon volcano keys?

And who here is going to sell me a kp3+ on the cheeps.

Yea. The TE Stuff. I mean...it doesn't really matter...I could make it work...but I don't really need another drum machine, another bass synth or another mono synth...I need polyphony! And complexity! (iPad apps here I come!)

And yes, I've considered that my Keys might be a lemon. I dunno though...I think there is a strong possibility that it is me...I have got some good sounds out of it. But fuck me...it is quiet and noisy--that is true of my unit for damn sure...

Yea...I'm not selling my KP3 ;p Especially now that I'm pretty sure I can trigger one shots from an external sequencer!

[mks]

I was just about to go for it, and get the BeatStep. I might save up for a couple of months and get the Pro. It's coming out in April which isn't too far away.

Yeah, still want a KP-3. I have my KP-2 that I bought off of my roommate in 2005. I seriously need to reprogram that thing. I was messing around using the x-y axis as a midi controller and now whenever I push one of the preset buttons, it changes the program on one of my synths. Who knew the preset buttons were midi capable. There is no menu to do it, its a certain button combination that I can't remember.

[mks]

$2800

Yeh, won't be buying that anytime soon.

[fragments]

Still waiting for Prophet 08 prices to take a nose dive...or maybe even Mopho x4 prices...

[knobgoblin]

@nowaysj: no unfortunately I am not there this year, kinda wish I were tho. Lots of cool new stuff to check out. The new prophet 6 sounds great from the demos I've heard so far. It may be even better than the original prophet 5 because it's all discrete oscillators and filters instead of Curtis chips. If I were in the market for a polyphonic analog synth, this would be my top choice. Kudos to Yamaha for giving Dave the Sequential name back. That's pretty amazing.

I also am drooling over the new MS20 module that added FM, PWM, and osc sync. It's almost like a cross between an ms20 and a pro1.

[nowaysj]

Okay, ONLY watch this if you are sitting down, and are in a place where you can laugh hysterically.

I would use a nsfw, but, just go for it, get fired.

[mks]

I'm at work. So it sucks then?

[nowaysj]

You should quit just so you can watch this vid right now.

[fragments]

Fuck Akai...get someone that can play a fucking chord. Also let the damn thing warm up first. God damn...


"So no mod wheel"

"No...we were thinking of it more like four bass synths...like a 303..." (We have no idea what the fuck we are doing)

"Oh HEY. It works! NEAT..."

[nowaysj]

Something tells me an accomplished player who gave a shit on a fully warmed up timbre wolf couldn't make it sound any better. Think that dude handled it well. My fav is when he says it is really fun, and then forces a swallow over the long awkward silence. I literally had tears rolling down my face this morning.

[mks]

Okay, ONLY watch this if you are sitting down, and are in a place where you can laugh hysterically.

I would use a nsfw, but, just go for it, get fired.

That sounds like shit.

[legend4ry]

Got a MPC2000XL offered to me for £80.

Just gotta replace the LCD screen.

Temptedddddddddddd!

No flash drive mod though, is this expensive?

[nowaysj]

I don't know about that screen.

Do you mean zip drive?

I've been looking.

Sounds like a good deal, but I'd research that screen.

Also consider this most common scam technique: Oh the device is working great, I just lost the power supply. (yeah right) you buy, get a power supply, dead. So common.

The screen could be the same here. Oh, it works fine except for the screen. But how are you going to test it out if you don't have a screen? Gotta put that in and then find out if it works...

I been looking myself for a 2k xl, seeing much higher prices (over here) for fully working zip drived up. But check this, you're going to need a zip drive for your pc, and zip drive disks, not always the easiest to aquire.

I've wanted that 2k xl since it came out. Remember it being over $2k in a time before mass inflation. Talk about the prophet 6... its cheep compared to what the 2k xl cost new.

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I'm getting a can, putting a slit in the lid, and slipping my loose change/cash in there. In 10 years, I should have a prophet 6 (or 08!)

[nowaysj]

Now return me the favor leg, I need a replacement audio hard drive, I just had a seagate fail spectacularly on me. Worst data loss of my life. Literally cried for 3 days.

Should I go 7200 rpm western digital? I don't think I have the money for an ssd/need more space. I can fill a terabyte drive in a month or two with samples.

I'm looking for a really solid 7200 rpm drive. Suggestions?

[legend4ry]

The screen works on the 2kXL but its damaged, only half of it displays properly and the rest is jagged, looks like the digitizer on the actual chip.

Nah not zip drive, you can mod it so it has a small laptop hard drive in it.

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You should NEVER store anything irreplaceable on a SSD anyway, its literally just for speeding up your every-day use applications. (you probably know this but just stating for anyone reading).

I have heard good things about the Hitachi Deskstar series.

I'd run a slower drive myself personally, slower the speed the more safe it is to have running 24/7. Distributes files and cache slower but brings up the life of the drive dramatically.

Though, this is a great deal :

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822236404

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Once you have files and that all set up properly, you can just buy a small SSD eventually went you got the money to get the faster performance.

[nowaysj]

Dude, what is the deal with WD's color scheme, there is green, blue, and black, then black caviar. I think I've gone black caviar in the past, that is their highest tier?

I was just looking at prices and they were quite high though.

I think I need to go 7200 rpm. I may be using my comp to record multichannel audio, like six mono inputs, a spdif, I can't recall if that is carrying 8 digi or just a stereo digi, plus another two mono inputs. Would be recording all simultaneously.

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If the screen is working enough to test it out, I say go for it. Test every button, and every pad, data wheel, all that stuff. That screen is TOTALLY common. It happens to all of them. Check MPC stuff, I think they have replacements. If you don't buy it, I will

[legend4ry]

That'll thread to your page file / system ram during the actual recording then cache to your hard drive once you hit stop.

Hard drive speed wouldn't hurt that using any of the standard speeds these days. Faster = Noisier too.