October 2012 new gear thread

[audioconsult]

Originally Posted by golden beers

is that a rolling machine i see in the background?

BUSTED!

nope.. rocknrolers dont touch roling machines

a box of sub-d connectors in front of a cutterknife.... is´nt it a bit indiscrete to dive into the background of the photos so much? .-P

Originally Posted by schmuck

It is an "original" one, isn't it?

sure

and i got 2 fx processors for low low prices..

a boss sx-700 for 60.-




And a yamaha dsp-1, for 40.-




need to experiment with my quadro desk a little..

but i would say that was it with gear purchases for this year...I hook everything together and let it run til march.

[kcearl]

ordered this




and will order the Focusrite OctoPre to go with it shortly

[natrixgli]

This was the first keyboard I ever owned. Found it at a secondhand shop and had to have it.

Already made some noises with it....

[Psychlist1972]

Originally Posted by natrixgli

This was the first keyboard I ever owned. Found it at a secondhand shop and had to have it.

Already made some noises with it....

A 1998 keyboard was your first? Awww! You're just a young'n

But seriously (ha! see what I did there?) that's a neat keyboard. Quasimidi had a number of things with a sound I liked. The polymorph is my favorite. The sirius is a close second. Both are nice and knobby.

My first keyboard was a Yamaha PSS 470 http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4064/4...2a266864_z.jpg

My second was a Roland HS-60. (Basically a Juno 106). You can see the very edge of it in my ancient photo here:
Old Synth and Sampler Borrowed from school for summer | Flickr - Photo Sharing!


My third was a Korg DW8000 which I bought by trading in the HS60. I got rid of it a while back because I was stupid and didn't realize it likely just had a dead battery. The music store I traded it to (for a Yamaha EX5) likely knew that as well, but told me it was worthless and they would happily bin it for me.

We should start a "what was your first synth" thread, although I'm sure that has been done here before.

Pete

[monkeyxx]

Originally Posted by Psychlist1972

We should start a "what was your first synth" thread, although I'm sure that has been done here before.

Pete

Yamaha PSR (p.o.s.) D'OH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! at least it had midi in and out, that's what I mostly ended up using it for. So the first sound module would have been Peach or Pippo Tapeworm or one of those other free Tweakbench VSTs

[cuckoo.old]

Originally Posted by kcearl

ordered this




and will order the Focusrite OctoPre to go with it shortly

I've got one of these.

I had a few problems in the beginning, but the unit has been exceptionally trouble free for months now. Nice unit, low latency, and lots of analogue ins.

At first didn't use the midi ports, having a usb midi controller, but I bought a Nord Modular the other day and I'm doubly happy as it has had a pretty good connection (Nord Mod can be very fussy regarding midi).

Focusrite support are also decent, replying to me usually within 24 hours.
Hope the unit works well for you.

[ScratchNSurf]

Originally Posted by monkeyxx

I just ordered an Alpha Juno 1!!!! can't wait! what a month this has been.

Picked up one couple months ago.. Still head wrapping it..

[Veck]

Just received it, but I have to wait to test it in my studio later. Bought it for my machinedrum, because I wanted to have some more classic analog sounds. I wonder how this will work with the midimachines

[Don Solaris]

Originally Posted by natrixgli

This was the first keyboard I ever owned. Found it at a secondhand shop and had to have it.

Already made some noises with it....

Good music dude!

[kcearl]

Originally Posted by cuckoo.old

I've got one of these.

I had a few problems in the beginning, but the unit has been exceptionally trouble free for months now. Nice unit, low latency, and lots of analogue ins.

At first didn't use the midi ports, having a usb midi controller, but I bought a Nord Modular the other day and I'm doubly happy as it has had a pretty good connection (Nord Mod can be very fussy regarding midi).

Focusrite support are also decent, replying to me usually within 24 hours.
Hope the unit works well for you.

Good news...i read quite a few reviews, i wanted lots of pres but a mobile unit too so the octopre can stay in the rack and i can use this with my macbook on the road...it also works with auria on the ipad so that gives me 18 tracks of "mobile" recording too

Glad to hear about the nord...i use an old midiman 8x8 but im going to buy a nord lead or modular soon so ill just plug it straight in the scarlett...thanks for chiming in

Sure going to beat my old omni and delta, not that they havent worked flawlessly for years

And im loving my GAP73 i just got...good times

[gordonmerrick]

Originally Posted by Veck

Just received it, but I have to wait to test it in my studio later. Bought it for my machinedrum, because I wanted to have some more classic analog sounds. I wonder how this will work with the midimachines

Nice. I have one and I love it--the power supply is a bit noisy, but everything else sounds punchy and perfect.

[natrixgli]

Originally Posted by Don Solaris

Good music dude!

Thank You!

[greenears]

Originally Posted by audioconsult

is´nt it a bit indiscrete to dive into the background of the photos so much? .-P

Voyeurism has no place on the internet!

[ozy]

Originally Posted by greenears

Voyeurism has no place on the internet!

+1

No place at all.

I will mark the time and place of this utterance,

because they are words of wisdom.




Come again... who or what exactly is "voyeurism"?

[Dubtek71]

Originally Posted by ozy

+1

No place at all.

I will mark the time and place of this utterance,

because they are words of wisdom.




Come again... who or what exactly is "voyeurism"?

I am going to be watching you very carefully now to ensure you keep your word.

[bloodsample]

[NWSooner]

Originally Posted by cuckoo.old

Not musical or synth related, but I've been wanting an upgrade from what I currently use, and it was a toss up between an Olympus Pen, and one of these. This little baby popped up second-hand, but essentially unused, and for an excellent price.

Normally I don't bitch about people's photos but you have a CAMERA in your new gear post. White balance, man, white balance!

[NEXUS-6]

Originally Posted by gordonmerrick

Nice. I have one and I love it--the power supply is a bit noisy, but everything else sounds punchy and perfect.

I just replaced my power supply for my air base really love mine!

[krushing]

Utilitarian times:

[zaxmalloy]

Mac Mini Server Quad Core i7....has taken a lot of work to get going...therefore it's here on a trial basis.

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[ozy]

"ho-hum purchase" of the century:




Yamaha MU100R with VH and VL cards.

I got this a few days ago, I finally could set it up today after reading the manual cover-to-cover(it's the most convoluted machine I ever used... saving patches is a mess!).

Well, it is the cheapest among my VL synths (the sound is not comparable to the vl70m, much less the VL-1), but it has a very nice feature:

it is BOTH a VL synth AND a harmonizer (and a very nice one, at par with my current Digitech).

Effects can be applied to the harmonizer (wha, distortion, filters).

I will use it mainly has a live harmonizer for "doubling" the vocoder (for better intelligibility),

but will explore VH+VL combinations.

[natrixgli]

I live in the upper Midwest, so fall is usually new gear time. Since I use my computer for most everything, right now I'm looking for stuff I can stumble upon ideas with. So I grabbed one of these:

[rafkey]

[NebulaZero]

I just got a Digitech Studio Quad V2
For $40 at some new pawnshop here in town, they also had the Quad V4 and a ton of other old 80's rack effects all for $40 each! So far im loving this V2, it might not be as lush as my v-verbs but the routing and modifiers make it a great box for weird noises.

Nebs

[BaconTastesGood]

...and the rest of my analog drum/bass sequencing setup arrived this morning.

[yoko]

ordered my first hardware - an Arturia Minibrute - a week ago but naturally it will take a while to arrive due to the high demand and shipping delays...

to keep myself busy until then, I got these 2
same as natrixgli's Monotribe, I hope to get new ideas going with them, without using the computer as I was only working ITB before. also I really like the idea of creating my own little groovy percussion-loops with the ER-1 and kinda build my own loop sample library to use later..we'll see how far I'll get with that idea

[monkeyxx]

tools like these are great ways to get new ideas going, I've found...yes!

[Lumin One]

Originally Posted by rafkey

what do you think about the dp24?

[acealive]

soon another Midipal arrives for the Bombass I got today:

[rafkey]

Originally Posted by Lumin One

what do you think about the dp24?

it's brand new for me; the sound is clear, well defined.

I also will use it for live purpose, backing tracks:
What Tascam doesn't say: you can get 2 different pre-fader mixes for the drummer and the singer e.g., via effect send 1 & 2 out jacks: all this is very easy & immediate to control because of dedicated pots just near the screen, where all the tracks details are highlighted, and you can easily switch from the stereo out to effect send 1/2 in the monitor (headphones) section.