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Top dust attractors
Apropos of another thread (which wasn’t even about that) in which we discussed not using our circuits. And again, this is something you don’t realise until you’ve actually bought the thing and lived with it a while – before that, you think it’s going to be all usefulness and productivity and never ending partaking of whatever it offers.
What are the things you’ve bought that a] mainly sit there within sight yet never see any actual usage, and 2) you nevertheless wouldn’t sell, because it, well, a pig like that, you don’t eat it all at once. So, you’re stuck with it, and it’s stuck with you. I’m hoping to learn here about other things I might have once wanted or lusted after, but turns out that it will more likely just sit there under sedimentary layers of dust. There must be loads of gear I didn’t realise was like that.
Failing that, things that might not be dust attractors, but things that you twiddle with now and then but have never once fitted it into a song or a groove or ensemble or other piece of intentional work other than just an occasional jam with itself.
Software, well, not in this thread – that’s too easy (ie about 90% of everything I’ve bought in the App Store fits that description, no news there).
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Korg Electribe .. was a massive disappointment for me because of many reasons..
massive polyphony stealing by fx's, and specially delays, instead of (mentioned in manual) 24 voices, i get maximum 8-10 voices.. 24 voices is pure lie, you get there only if you don't use any fx's and no filters
reverbs, delays and envelopes are cuted when switching pattern (sounds super ugly)
occasional freezes and high pitch noises !!
short envelope bug - very short envelopes are not trigerred corectly during tweaking any knob on any part, and it souds extremely bad
just 4 bars per pattern (emx had 8, i overlooked this detail before i did purchase)
Mainly because of polyphony stealing (music i make needs usually only for drums 8-10 voices) it is basically unusable crap for me.. wasted money..
i was trying to sell it but nobody wanted that junk, so it serves like dustcatcher, didn't turned it on for more than year, maybe i should throw it to trash
Korg Minilogue. I keep it dusted in case of potential buyers. I fear it’s much too late for that though; the secret is out.
I’m shocked to hear this. Always had my eye on it.
Top would have to the Roland VS-2480 I bought a year or so ago, hoping it would provide me with the computerless recording life I was after and let me sell my too-large-for-my-space mixer.
Indeed, it's a great and absurdly powerful multitracker and a very capable mixer but it totally fails for me in two key ways.
1) it takes about 4 minutes to boot.
2) it has no concept of templates and save as tricks are all problematic in some way or other (a few minutes to "save" an empty project, for example)
Put together it means ~10 minutes of fucking about until you can arm a track to record. And you can't hear anything until it's booted.
@oat_phipps wanna trade?
Hm. I also.
Kenton Killamix Mini.
Crazy expensive at first, and aside with a brief flirtation using it for Ableton DJing, it sits unused for years now. Can’t bring myself to sell it, it’s so compact and powerful, even if I near use it.
@demdy : Wow, I actually bought the sampling Electribe but changed my mind before I opened the box.
A NON- dust attractor : My New Korg Kross 2 . Play it all the time and with an audio usb it’s perfect for iOS. Gives me the hardware springboard I need that I can add ios candy to .
+1. I sold it on ebay within a couple of hours of uploading the ad, and for a good price, so don't despair.
$2000 on a iMac that I never use. Got my first iPad not long after and the rest is history
Roland Boss BR1180. It was my Audiobus and DAW back in the day. Came with an 808 and 909 and studio drum kit. It purported to have a sampler and sequencer arranger in the manual but it never properly explained how to set it up. I got it hooked up through midi to a Casio keyboard, also collecting dust, and learned how to program beats and bass lines.
Tried to sell them but whis buying it? It's kind of got an antique quality to it now.
Giant dusty homemade modular synth system. I thought it would change my life, but it took hours and too much ingenuity to get anything remotely musical out of it. An hour to get a normal synth set up patched together and debugged. And you're left with this rats nest of wires so that when you come back, you have no idea in the world what is making the sound. When you did get a really cool thing, what do you do with it? you'll never get it back exactly the same. Take pictures? draw it out? Or just keep messing with it, and losing your great sounds, hoping to absorb the machine into your thick skull by osmosis. Analogkit did what I was hoping the modular would do, and more, at about 1/200th of the price.
I’m down for a trade. However, I’d be looking for a decent-to-good MIDI keyboard (preferably 49-key) with a mod wheel and a few knobs to assign. Can’t even use the Minilogue for MIDI because it has no mod wheel (I can with Midiflow, but its the principle of the matter).
Anyway, for those wondering why? The Minilogue sounds like a toy, has some of the worst, softest sawtooths I’ve ever heard, and limited modulation without sequencing it. It never sounds good enough for me to get that far though. Plus, all my weird sounding patches all sound the same.
Edit: and lets not forget the filter and how the resonance eats away the bottom end worse than any synth I’ve ever heard.
For me it’s turntables, amps, speakers and CD players. Old Luxman, Musical Fidelty, NAD, Technics, Stanton, Systemdek, Energy 22 Connies, etc. And thousands of dusty records and CDs sitting unused in the basement...
man you should give it one more try
i had it just for a few days (to write review) but i was pretty surprised (in good way)... i did those two demo tunes just exclusively from minilogue sounds (everything including drums, no external fx used)..it can sound pretty good if used properly 
Oh.
At first i was "what?!" but than i realized you mean new Korg Electribe, i suppose?
While old ones were pretty good for what they were and still respected and used by people (ERmk2, ESmk2, EMX, ESX etc.)
yeah new one...
i had EMX few years ago and still regret i traded it for something else.. one of best grooveboxes ever made, great sounds, no bugs, stable number of voices and it has 8 bars/ pattern !
Elektron analog keys. After one month, I really couldn't stand the sound anymore. It certanly has rave reviews, so probably it's me but..... To me (disclaimer: please note 'to me'), a piece of crap. It had hardware issues too (clanky keyboard, spotted display...). Sold without regrets.
Ah, I can add one – I’d forgotten I even own it, that’s how unused it is. My Keith McMillen K-board. Bought a couple of years ago about this time of year, but really never got on with it. The hassle of plugging it into the ipad via usb adaptor and the cable dangling across everything, the strange insensitivity on most notes but not on some, and the slight camber or curve across it resulting on it rocking when put on a table. I thought it’d increase my productivity because I didn’t like the ipad keyboard in general, but it seems I’d rather avoid the K-board altogether. Ironically, half the reason I bought the circuit was to use that as an alternative controller to supplant the unused K-board. Funny how things go.
Boss RC202. I can’t get it to loop my recordings in any sort of pleasant or predictable way. Just hate how it works, although on paper it should be a really creative tool.
Circuit for me too. It sits in a desk drawer. I just don't like the sound, unfortunately. Maybe I need to get one of those expansion packs...
but you have one advantage, compared to us - if you get pissed off by some hw you can code for yourself (and for us :-)) app which will do it's job way much better :-)))
My MS20, nearly 40 years old and covered in dust hasn’t been turned on for years. I’d never sell it though.
TR-8 and Microbrute
Ooh - why?
Exactly the same here. We are a small dataset, but obviously not their target audience
Arturia Beatstep. Used to use it for the most controls per square inch value but the encoders totally drive me nuts. Dusted off and boxed for ebay sale.
Mine was the EM1. On paper it had everything I was looking for but I hated using it. I suppose the metallic ones were a bit better but I probably wouldn't have geled with them either. Reminds me I also had an ER1 mk1 at some point and didn't like it either.
Oohhh.. I love the EM1. I had to search for almost 6 months to find one, they’re getting really rare. Obviously they’re incredibly dated and limited by today’s standards, but it’s like a timecapsule to the most fun time of my life - musicwise.
And they have an amazingly fast workflow. If I had to name its biggest flaw it would be that ‘global delay effect’ which is quite useless.