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Are you rational when buying hardware?

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  • Bah! I would never let something as futile as ”rational thinking” or ”common sense” get between me and a piece of sweet gear😁

    ”There is but one real path to achive a Juno chorus” as Wittgenstein put it…

  • The only gear I have parted with were replaced with upgraded versions. I am trying to stay content with the gear I have since I completed my wish list. It is challenging to resist the temptation to buy new goodies, unboxing is so much fun. I do keep all my boxes. Perhaps I’ll start re-boxing gear so I can relive unboxing 🙃

  • Well, very rational to me when it comes to guitars or basses.

    I always buy stuff for myself as opposed to make money but I also buy at the lowest possible price, sometimes waiting months for it to show on eBay or Gumtree. Then I compare them to my current gear and if it is better I keep it if not I usually sell at a profit.

    Although I often end up with 4 acoustics, 5 electrics, 2 keyboards aka the house full of tat

  • Probably over-rational about it. I deliberate for far too long before getting something and compare it with every thing else in existence. There are a lot of logistics involved..

  • @supadom said:
    Well, very rational to me when it comes to guitars or basses.

    I always buy stuff for myself as opposed to make money but I also buy at the lowest possible price, sometimes waiting months for it to show on eBay or Gumtree. Then I compare them to my current gear and if it is better I keep it if not I usually sell at a profit.

    Although I often end up with 4 acoustics, 5 electrics, 2 keyboards aka the house full of tat

    Nothing like a deal!!!
    I could tell y’all stories about how I got piece of kit and the “deal” that made it happen 🙌🏽

  • The last years yes. But i bought so many synths in my life.. I began with a Yamaha CS 60 in 82

  • Well I just got an MPC one+ as my first ever hardware purchase. I feel it was a rational purchase, I watched all the videos, read things, did my research. Couldn’t be happier with it, zero regrets. Almost all the surprises were happy ones, like “oh cool it can do that”. The only frustrating thing was having to borrow a friends computer to download all the factory content that you’re entitled to cause all I have is an iPad. So yeah, did my research, had a reason, got exactly what I wanted. So far so good as far as me and hardware go.

  • I used to be very irrational with my hardware purchases. I’ve owned surely over 100 synths, samplers, and drum machines. Plus multiple guitars, basses, and other instruments. The iPad helped with that a lot. All I really want/need now is my iPad/midi controller, a sampler (404), and a synth to twiddle some knobs and I’m happy. Don’t really have the space for a lot anymore anyway but I’m way happier with less these days.

  • I’ve bought 2 pieces of hardware not counting controllers or iPads. I was more worried than irrational about my purchases because of specialized nature of music gear ( considering it’s not wrenches or generalizable computer) and its ROI.

    So I figure I was rational ;)

  • Sure do have 2 regrets in selling gear…the Roland vsynth xt rack, and the Roland vsynth gen1

  • @HotStrange said:
    I used to be very irrational with my hardware purchases. I’ve owned surely over 100 synths, samplers, and drum machines. Plus multiple guitars, basses, and other instruments. The iPad helped with that a lot. All I really want/need now is my iPad/midi controller, a sampler (404), and a synth to twiddle some knobs and I’m happy. Don’t really have the space for a lot anymore anyway but I’m way happier with less these days.

    Amazing! Did anything survive from that 100s club?

  • @Luxthor said:

    @HotStrange said:
    I used to be very irrational with my hardware purchases. I’ve owned surely over 100 synths, samplers, and drum machines. Plus multiple guitars, basses, and other instruments. The iPad helped with that a lot. All I really want/need now is my iPad/midi controller, a sampler (404), and a synth to twiddle some knobs and I’m happy. Don’t really have the space for a lot anymore anyway but I’m way happier with less these days.

    Amazing! Did anything survive from that 100s club?

    Only things that survived is my small synths (pocket operators, volcas, Bastl, Stylophone) because that’s all I have space for in our tiny home. And even then they have to stay packed away so they rarely get used. So my main setup is just iPad and Minilab3 but I’m planning on buying the 404 in a couple weeks to have a permanent brother attached to the iPad :)

  • @HotStrange said:

    @Luxthor said:

    @HotStrange said:
    I used to be very irrational with my hardware purchases. I’ve owned surely over 100 synths, samplers, and drum machines. Plus multiple guitars, basses, and other instruments. The iPad helped with that a lot. All I really want/need now is my iPad/midi controller, a sampler (404), and a synth to twiddle some knobs and I’m happy. Don’t really have the space for a lot anymore anyway but I’m way happier with less these days.

    Amazing! Did anything survive from that 100s club?

    Only things that survived is my small synths (pocket operators, volcas, Bastl, Stylophone) because that’s all I have space for in our tiny home. And even then they have to stay packed away so they rarely get used. So my main setup is just iPad and Minilab3 but I’m planning on buying the 404 in a couple weeks to have a permanent brother attached to the iPad :)

    Stylophone OMG, 🤩 is there any emulator for the iPad? With Apple Pencil, it would be close to the original.

  • @Luxthor said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @Luxthor said:

    @HotStrange said:
    I used to be very irrational with my hardware purchases. I’ve owned surely over 100 synths, samplers, and drum machines. Plus multiple guitars, basses, and other instruments. The iPad helped with that a lot. All I really want/need now is my iPad/midi controller, a sampler (404), and a synth to twiddle some knobs and I’m happy. Don’t really have the space for a lot anymore anyway but I’m way happier with less these days.

    Amazing! Did anything survive from that 100s club?

    Only things that survived is my small synths (pocket operators, volcas, Bastl, Stylophone) because that’s all I have space for in our tiny home. And even then they have to stay packed away so they rarely get used. So my main setup is just iPad and Minilab3 but I’m planning on buying the 404 in a couple weeks to have a permanent brother attached to the iPad :)

    Stylophone OMG, 🤩 is there any emulator for the iPad? With Apple Pencil, it would be close to the original.

    Wow with the Apple Pencil! That’s such a good idea. I’m not aware of one but I hope it happens now (even though I have one 😂)

    There’s a cheap standalone app of it but it’s abysmal and NOT recommended lol.

    I’m obsessed with all the old Stylophone instruments and hope to collect them all..:eventually lol. They claim to be working on a drum machine one now that’s an update to the Beats one they released years ago.

  • @HotStrange said:

    @Luxthor said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @Luxthor said:

    @HotStrange said:
    I used to be very irrational with my hardware purchases. I’ve owned surely over 100 synths, samplers, and drum machines. Plus multiple guitars, basses, and other instruments. The iPad helped with that a lot. All I really want/need now is my iPad/midi controller, a sampler (404), and a synth to twiddle some knobs and I’m happy. Don’t really have the space for a lot anymore anyway but I’m way happier with less these days.

    Amazing! Did anything survive from that 100s club?

    Only things that survived is my small synths (pocket operators, volcas, Bastl, Stylophone) because that’s all I have space for in our tiny home. And even then they have to stay packed away so they rarely get used. So my main setup is just iPad and Minilab3 but I’m planning on buying the 404 in a couple weeks to have a permanent brother attached to the iPad :)

    Stylophone OMG, 🤩 is there any emulator for the iPad? With Apple Pencil, it would be close to the original.

    Wow with the Apple Pencil! That’s such a good idea. I’m not aware of one but I hope it happens now (even though I have one 😂)

    There’s a cheap standalone app of it but it’s abysmal and NOT recommended lol.

    I’m obsessed with all the old Stylophone instruments and hope to collect them all..:eventually lol. They claim to be working on a drum machine one now that’s an update to the Beats one they released years ago.

    I love simplicity and that stylus glide over the unique keyboard surface. 🤩

    I tried to make just MIDI control surface in the Surface Builder but failed miserably. SB is still a very rough app, missing a lot of basic features. I hope developer will continue with updates. The main thing that stopped me from making a Sylophone controller was inability to release the button when touch focus was out. A normal keyboard is out of the question because of the space between sharps and flats. And one minor thing, “opaque” buttons are actually not opaque?!

  • @Luxthor said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @Luxthor said:

    @HotStrange said:

    @Luxthor said:

    @HotStrange said:
    I used to be very irrational with my hardware purchases. I’ve owned surely over 100 synths, samplers, and drum machines. Plus multiple guitars, basses, and other instruments. The iPad helped with that a lot. All I really want/need now is my iPad/midi controller, a sampler (404), and a synth to twiddle some knobs and I’m happy. Don’t really have the space for a lot anymore anyway but I’m way happier with less these days.

    Amazing! Did anything survive from that 100s club?

    Only things that survived is my small synths (pocket operators, volcas, Bastl, Stylophone) because that’s all I have space for in our tiny home. And even then they have to stay packed away so they rarely get used. So my main setup is just iPad and Minilab3 but I’m planning on buying the 404 in a couple weeks to have a permanent brother attached to the iPad :)

    Stylophone OMG, 🤩 is there any emulator for the iPad? With Apple Pencil, it would be close to the original.

    Wow with the Apple Pencil! That’s such a good idea. I’m not aware of one but I hope it happens now (even though I have one 😂)

    There’s a cheap standalone app of it but it’s abysmal and NOT recommended lol.

    I’m obsessed with all the old Stylophone instruments and hope to collect them all..:eventually lol. They claim to be working on a drum machine one now that’s an update to the Beats one they released years ago.

    I love simplicity and that stylus glide over the unique keyboard surface. 🤩

    I tried to make just MIDI control surface in the Surface Builder but failed miserably. SB is still a very rough app, missing a lot of basic features. I hope developer will continue with updates. The main thing that stopped me from making a Sylophone controller was inability to release the button when touch focus was out. A normal keyboard is out of the question because of the space between sharps and flats. And one minor thing, “opaque” buttons are actually not opaque?!

    Hey it looks cool though 😂

    I can’t remember what all it was but there were a small handful of things that kept me from buying surface builder as well. Paul’s a good dev so I’m sure he’ll keep it going but it’s not in the cards for me right now in its current state. Not sure how often I’d use it anyway.

  • @MrSmileZ said:
    Sure do have 2 regrets in selling gear…the Roland vsynth xt rack, and the Roland vsynth gen1

    This! The gen1 was my first real synth, great semi-modular platform to learn on. Would be one awesome reissue with modern specs. Variphrase tech still lives on as a time stretch mode on the new 404. I could never get samples to loop on mine, even doing the official "trick", but what a machine for its time. I even remember the ordinary VA part sounding extremely good and very smooth. Imagine if the V-Synth was an indicator of hardware innovation and where they would be today. Same period they released the MVs also, wonder what happened to the creativity. I see glipses like in the new 404 aaaand that's all for me really.

    Other regret was a Korg Monotribe, which is on its way back to me now.

  • Definitely would love a new Vsynth but not like the terrible GT it was horrible…pretty, but not useable for me

  • @Montreal_Music
    If you've ever sold a piece of gear and, later, regretted it, raise your hand.

    All. The. Fucking. Time.

    There are even some pieces which i bought and sold multiple times.

    It’s inevitable, when you don’t have unlimited resources (and unlimited space) some things must to make room and financial buffer for other new things..

    It’s just hobby, if you hope some instrument (sw/hw) will inspire you more than other one, why not ?

    It has really NOTHING to do with rationality, it’s mostly emotional thing. But as i said, nothing wrong about that. It’s hobby, it’s supposed to be done just because you enjoy it, not from any rational reasons…

  • Had to sell my Monomachine under financial duress but thankfully managed to keep my version 1 V-synth with both cards, and it’s staying, as is everything else in my small studio. Now they’ve added a SID synth to the Analog Rytm, I’m seriously considering one of those further down the line as that’s the bit I miss most from the Monomachine. The Monomachine itself is otherwise unaffordable these days and unfortunately the V-synth’s getting that way too, although I do see an occasional bargain.

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