Synth/Gear you most regret BUYING

[Machinegunjoe]

Novation Nova, sold it after 3 month. It lacks "brilliance" and just sounds....errrr cheap???

[TommyS]

Mc-505

Never use it anymore. Sequencer is ok. Synth engine sucks.

I was stupid to get one :?

If you feel the need to slap me for being so stupid, feel free :D

[Blank]

hey i like the nova...i get some awesome sounds out of it...dont like the MC505...and i had a MC303 for awhile ugh!! that is just terrible...unless you r a DJ and/or want to sound like millions of other ppl...

peace
Blank

[udenjoe]

I remember trying out to MC303 years ago. Didn't care for it. Sent it back for the Akai 20 something phrase sampler. Didn't care for it, although it has alot of potential now that I think back. I finally got the mpc 2000. Great. Although it took me a week to figure it out. Years later I was still learning new things.

That was the beginning of my electronic music experience.

[Blank]

how long ago was that? i starting my electronic music, in like 96 i think...

peace
Blank

[crea]

Hmm, not sure if really can be considered gear, but anyways....

ReBirth. Installed it, played 'round with it a bit and then what? It's been collecting dust on my shelf ever since.

.h?kan

[Blank]

now a dayz that is considered gear...since its all software anywayz(still think that line has some BS in it), why didnt u use it?

peace
Blank

[Tomer=Trance]

i wonder why some other soft synth maker company didnt buy the rebirth base from that reason company and use it to make an improved tb clone, its one of the best tb303 software clone out there

[Blank]

u know that is a damn good question...u see that copy thing everywhere from company to company but not with rebirth...maybe propellerheads didnt want to sell it..?

I dont know if they would have im sure there would be an awesome one right now!!

peace
Blank

[Hollowcell]

Novation Nova, sold it after 3 month. It lacks "brilliance" and just sounds....errrr cheap???

i really like the nova...i worked with my friends nova in australia...before the new os, mmm, not quite there...but after the new os, i dont what they did to it, but it worked......ive been lookin for a cheap second hand one over here in japan.....

the most regretable synth i bought would have to be the JX305...basicly a MC505 with a few extra sounds and a keyboard.....i dont use the sounds at all now, but the keyboard i really like....good responsive after touch, and quite a good feel......so so sequencer too......good contoller! expensive controller!!! oh well..

[Machinegunjoe]

I think the nova is ok, and i understand ppl who like it. But it wasn't for me you know...i gave it a chance, sold it and bought a Virus instead! But i really think that the nova lacks brilliance...but i think my virus does to when i compare it to my nord...oh anyway :lol:

[Blank]

well Machinegunjoe to help us understand what do u mean by brilliance? that can discribe so much on a synth...

peace
Blank

[crea]

now a dayz that is considered gear...since its all software anywayz(still think that line has some BS in it), why didnt u use it?

Hmm, lack of interest to learn a new toy at that moment I guess. Haven't really found any use for it since. Probably would if I sat down and learn't how to use it properly but for now it'll remain on the shelf.

.h?kan

[TommyS]

I would say the sound from a nord has more clarityand fidelty compared to a virus. But the virus is still good. :D

[Hollowcell]

the nord lacks the programming capabilitys though......i do love my nord though.....just inputs and few other things would be nice......

if i have to compare, nord, virus and nova though.....id say they all have a place......the unique sounds on each are very difficult (virtually impossible) to get on the others......

[Blank]

I would definitely say that Hollowcell...they all have their own little aspects to them...which is why all those companies r still around...otherwise if one was able to do what the other could then it would be a waist to buy the other synths, but i often see all of them in studios together...

peace
Blank

[Machinegunjoe]

Hey Blank

As tommy said the clarity of the sound. I really love my Virus, but the nord is just unbeatable if you want a really clear type of sound.

Im really happy that i have a couple of different VAs cuz they all sound different.

[TommyS]

I think the Virus and Nord are made for each other.

I like to have a fat dirty sequence going on the Virus while a crisp sequence on the nord slowly comes up behind it.

They really work well together I think. :D

[Blank]

Man u guys need to stop teasing me....I so so so so so want a nord...well one day ill get it...

peace
Blank

[Hollowcell]

hey tommys, thats the whole reason ive ordered the virus...i want the dirt the virus can bring....im glad u think think the nord and the virus go well together...i havent heard them side by side yet...i was really hoping they would fit together.....

blank.....hehehe...we all have a nord and u dont.....a bit childish, i know, but ive gotta feel powerfull somewhere!!! :roll:

[Blank]

its fine ill get mine in time...unless u guys have an extra u care to give away...j/k :lol: :lol: :lol:


peace
Blank

[hardmandez]

Back to crappy synths.

My Casio CZ-3000. I wish I never bought the thing especially when I look back and think of the Juno sitting on the shelve above it.

But hey that was 10 years ago, didn't know half as much as I know now and stoned out my nut so anything would have sounded cool at the time.

Anyone want to take it off my hands.

[Machinegunjoe]

I had a Cz1000...it made pretty cool basses. Other than that it sucked

[spacecorn]

Casio keyboard that suuuuuuuuucked!!! I mean I wanted a synth and i got a preset keyboard...
It costed me like 600$ I think and it was my first buy.
I tried to get the money back, but they fucked me over.
But then the store went out of buisness HAHAHAHA DAMN YOU!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELLLL!!!!!! :twisted:

Quasimidi Quasar + 2 expansion cards
Costed me like 800$ and it sounded almost good in the store.
But at home, I tried to use it in my songs, well mission impossible!!!
It sounded like something from 1991 and not in a good nostalgic way.
It just had 10000 really cheezy and badly sampled...samples.
For example 3000 moog resonated sounds... that all sounded like a cheap sample CD.

[Machinegunjoe]

Casio keyboard that suuuuuuuuucked!!! I mean I wanted a synth and i got a preset keyboard...
It costed me like 600$ I think and it was my first buy.
I tried to get the money back, but they fucked me over.
But then the store went out of buisness HAHAHAHA DAMN YOU!!!! DAMN YOU TO HELLLL!!!!!!


KB City right??? They really sucked, heard their owner stole all the money and took off :lol:

[Tomer=Trance]

hehehehe :lol:

[DIGITAL SCREAMS]

hey tommys, thats the whole reason ive ordered the virus...i want the dirt the virus can bring....im glad u think think the nord and the virus go well together...i havent heard them side by side yet...i was really hoping they would fit together.....

blank.....hehehe...we all have a nord and u dont.....a bit childish, i know, but ive gotta feel powerfull somewhere!!! :roll:

A Virus/Indigo, a Nord 2, a good analogue monosynth and a good drum machine is all you need to make great sounds and hopefully great tracks!

Now for my moment of power.....

Personally I think dance music in general would be greatly enhanced if people started using analog mono's again. You can hear bass done on a polyphonic VA synth from a mile off....and it just doesnt do anything for me......lacks depth and punch. Hehehe thats why I got a Pro-One......NOW I FEEL POWERFUL LMAO!!!

*Hollowcell, what kinda music are you currently making?

DS

[Tomer=Trance]

i agree
analogs rock :D (not just mono's)
thats why im thinking of geting me a little juno

[udenjoe]

I saw an Akai VX600 on sale at synthsite.com that I regret not buying.

[Hollowcell]

*Hollowcell, what kinda music are you currently making?


at the moment....ive been getting into slow breaks....technical rythms with a dark feel.........but strangely, the last 2 songs ive finished have been disco house and abstract 4 beat house! but really thats the closest they come to a catorgory!

oh yeh another new one ive done..is an electronic rock song.....using real drum samples, no synths and strings and guitars.....gotta love electronic music....u can almost make what ever u want!

but really, this should be on another topic.....sorry guys!

[unio mystica]

My first "synth": Roland EG-101 :oops:

It?s sooooooooooooooo Terrible. The sounds are useless. Used for a month and tradet it to Orbit (which has a few very fat sounds/samples). Very good trade.

[subtractive]

I think my worst synth (not that you can call them synths) is anything by E-mu. I will never buy a sample playback machine again.

[flexoffset]

Drum Machines: Boss Dr Rhythm DR-110 and then a Korg DDD-5
Bought 'em both new between 1986 and 1987, I think.

Man, those things sound like crap.

[nrgy]

I bought a 2nd hand yamaha a4000, sold it for the same price after two days :lol:

I quickly found out that software samples where much better for my own use. :D

[picato]

I think my worst synth (not that you can call them synths) is anything by E-mu. I will never buy a sample playback machine again.

I suppose that all "sample playback" machines aren't that bad. A Roland XV 5080 sounds really good, but maybe isn't the machine for trance leads...

[picato]

My first synth was an ensoniq SQ-1. I would say a totaly useless synth module from the eighties. But I supose you gotta start somewhere...

[MADSTATION]

fr-777. Barely use it!

[3o3]

I'd probably go for the Yamaha AN1x or Novation Basstation.

MADSTATION: why dont your FR-777, lovely filter section in it.

[Machinegunjoe]

I'd probably go for the Yamaha AN1x or Novation Basstation.

Why the AN1x ???

[Juho L]

Why the AN1x ???

I'd also like to know. Only useable thing is the sequencer and that's it.

[Tomer=Trance]

realy?
i heard its a great va

[3o3]

Because the MIDI-timing in it sucked _big_ time, you could sequence an really easy arpeggio in cubase, and every 2:nd / 4:th note where missing - no matter what i did it always seemed to be missing some notes.

I tried changing between alot of different OS'es versions for it, i exchanged my midi-interface (an Yamaha UX-256 midiinterface if i remember correctly), my computer setup was changed and then back since no matter what i did it always missed out on a couple of notes. I even went to an Yamaha-dealer and "got it fixed" the only thing they fixed where an knob that where pretty bad - it could go from 1-127 even when you just played on the keyboard and didnt touch the knobs at all. I even took it there after i got it reparied and the answer i got was "well, get used too it if it misses out on midi-notes or change your own equipment - which i did, sold that awful thing"

Then i sold it, with a _great_ loss of money to another guy who had it for an week, and then he sold it like 2-3 days after and it's been on the road since - everytime someone sells his/hers AN1x, its probably my old one

[Tomer=Trance]

could be a problem with that exact synth?
never heard of this problem
and i see this synth in alot of studios

[3o3]

Yes, but i heard other swedish users having exactly the same problem - their solution - sample every thing from it and use the sampler instead.. but since i couldnt afford a sampler nor didnt want a sampler i didnt choose to do this - besides for me and synth is a synth and you shouldnt have to use something else for it to work if you know what i mean

[Tomer=Trance]

yeah of course
you shouldnt sample it or alse whats the point of having it?