Lol ouch. I thought it would be a good idea to buy a room full of synthesizers before a new car so I’m stuck working third shift until I can get out of this hole.
Sell 2 of your synths that have keyboards with more than 39 keys. You don’t use them (be honest, we’ve all fallen victim to our own GAS) and you could use the money and space.
Specifically, sell them to me for a very good deal.
Hahaha, I’ve definitely been considering paring down a bit only because it’s a lot to keep track of at once, but I only have two synths with keyboards RN the Yamaha SY-77 and Novation BassStation 2, the rest are all desktop or rack modules. I’d love to have some more older keyboards like a Jupiter or Juno or Prophet but the price and upkeep and all that is getting a bit much.
I put a hard stop on buying synths with keyboards after I got a 61 key controller. Then I found a Grandmother for $600, so now I just look at Eurorack stuff that I can’t afford as I feed LFOs and envelopes into it from my Hydrasynth.
Good deal, Grandmothers have such a lovely sound (lol). The only Moog I ever had as a Labyrinth and that was fun, had to let it go but would pick up another at some point. Yeah I’m not exactly Keith Emerson so I don’t need a lot of keyboards either, I would like to have a nice analog polysynth keyboard though, that is the one thing I’m currently missing but I’ll probably go with a module again.
Have you considered the Dreadbox Nymphes? I don’t have one, but it’s on my list because it hits the Juno60/106 target very well while also being more flexible in terms of sound design. BYOKB, but I can see one of them sitting very well next to a digital workhorse like a Blofeld or MS2000R in a setup for when you need that analog feeling.
Yep and I really like Dreadbox as a company, they do their own thing they’re pretty underrated sound wise as well, I have an Erebus 3 and like it a lot my only problem with the Nymphes was the reported USB noise which I guess is okay if you power it normally, I would just prefer not to have USB powered synths. It is lovely sounding though, I was looking at the newer one, the Artemis as a possibility, or maybe an Oberheim TEO-5 or new Sequential Forum, or a Polyvera haha. Lots of choices now. I miss my Blofeld too, I sold it after I got the Virus TI because of overlap but it really has a great sound.
A little of both, don’t have a full modular system because well that’s a whole different money sink, but I have a bunch of semi modular stuff that I hook up together, a lot of desktop synths, few keyboards, rack modules, sequencers, effects pedals. I’d love to get into eurorack sometime but that time is not now haha.
I get that having analog stuff that you physically wire together, or purpose-built digital stuff with a nice interface, is “real” and tactile and fun and all, but have you considered the fact that there’s nothing you can do with that stuff that can’t be emulated with software?
IMO you should keep one MIDI controller keyboard and sell everything else until money is less tight. (And also get yourself a bicycle, BTW.)
I have considered that, I’ve been making music with computers since I was a kid starting with the Commodore 64 and the Kawasaki Synthesizers program, then to trackers on Amiga and PC (.MOD music), then to DAWs. Nowadays DAWs are just packed with so many options and there’s literally millions of plugins that I get frozen with choice rather often or just end up fucking around, not that I don’t just fuck around all the time with the hardware but it feels more satisfying. Emulation has come a long long way, as far as quality and even going to model circuit behaviour, but there is just a presence and tone of (some) hardware that is just not there yet, and still with certain types of frequency modulation you get nasty artifacts. Beyond the tactile usability and the sound quality there’s also a bit of nostalgia factor to it as well. I like old hardware, I like talking about it to people and learning new tips and tricks and sharing what I know.
Lol ouch. I thought it would be a good idea to buy a room full of synthesizers before a new car so I’m stuck working third shift until I can get out of this hole.
Synthesize a new car then, you got the tools.
They’re the music kind not the star trek kind :( :) I can do a Cars cover song though, maybe… lol.
If they have a pitch bend wheel thing, you could make it sound like a car changing gears, chuck it on an electric skateboard and boom! new car.
This person is big brain thinking.
Nah, just stoned and poor.
Now there’s an ad hahaha, I suppose it is a bit of perspective, we’ve come a long way in terms of affordability.
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Sell 2 of your synths that have keyboards with more than 39 keys. You don’t use them (be honest, we’ve all fallen victim to our own GAS) and you could use the money and space.
Specifically, sell them to me for a very good deal.
Hahaha, I’ve definitely been considering paring down a bit only because it’s a lot to keep track of at once, but I only have two synths with keyboards RN the Yamaha SY-77 and Novation BassStation 2, the rest are all desktop or rack modules. I’d love to have some more older keyboards like a Jupiter or Juno or Prophet but the price and upkeep and all that is getting a bit much.
I put a hard stop on buying synths with keyboards after I got a 61 key controller. Then I found a Grandmother for $600, so now I just look at Eurorack stuff that I can’t afford as I feed LFOs and envelopes into it from my Hydrasynth.
Good deal, Grandmothers have such a lovely sound (lol). The only Moog I ever had as a Labyrinth and that was fun, had to let it go but would pick up another at some point. Yeah I’m not exactly Keith Emerson so I don’t need a lot of keyboards either, I would like to have a nice analog polysynth keyboard though, that is the one thing I’m currently missing but I’ll probably go with a module again.
Have you considered the Dreadbox Nymphes? I don’t have one, but it’s on my list because it hits the Juno60/106 target very well while also being more flexible in terms of sound design. BYOKB, but I can see one of them sitting very well next to a digital workhorse like a Blofeld or MS2000R in a setup for when you need that analog feeling.
Yep and I really like Dreadbox as a company, they do their own thing they’re pretty underrated sound wise as well, I have an Erebus 3 and like it a lot my only problem with the Nymphes was the reported USB noise which I guess is okay if you power it normally, I would just prefer not to have USB powered synths. It is lovely sounding though, I was looking at the newer one, the Artemis as a possibility, or maybe an Oberheim TEO-5 or new Sequential Forum, or a Polyvera haha. Lots of choices now. I miss my Blofeld too, I sold it after I got the Virus TI because of overlap but it really has a great sound.
Modular synth modules, or just a bunch of different keyboards?
A little of both, don’t have a full modular system because well that’s a whole different money sink, but I have a bunch of semi modular stuff that I hook up together, a lot of desktop synths, few keyboards, rack modules, sequencers, effects pedals. I’d love to get into eurorack sometime but that time is not now haha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXb0zcEM-rI
I get that having analog stuff that you physically wire together, or purpose-built digital stuff with a nice interface, is “real” and tactile and fun and all, but have you considered the fact that there’s nothing you can do with that stuff that can’t be emulated with software?
IMO you should keep one MIDI controller keyboard and sell everything else until money is less tight. (And also get yourself a bicycle, BTW.)
I have considered that, I’ve been making music with computers since I was a kid starting with the Commodore 64 and the Kawasaki Synthesizers program, then to trackers on Amiga and PC (.MOD music), then to DAWs. Nowadays DAWs are just packed with so many options and there’s literally millions of plugins that I get frozen with choice rather often or just end up fucking around, not that I don’t just fuck around all the time with the hardware but it feels more satisfying. Emulation has come a long long way, as far as quality and even going to model circuit behaviour, but there is just a presence and tone of (some) hardware that is just not there yet, and still with certain types of frequency modulation you get nasty artifacts. Beyond the tactile usability and the sound quality there’s also a bit of nostalgia factor to it as well. I like old hardware, I like talking about it to people and learning new tips and tricks and sharing what I know.