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Retired Gear List A list of gear I used to own, but for some reason, no longer do. |
- Moog Rogue Synth - This was a cool little synth. I bought this new around 1984 and used it for years. After I moved to a MIDI driven system I found I used this less and less. After it sat for years without being powered on I decided instead of letting it rot away I'd sell it to someone who would enjoy and use it. I ended up trading it straight across for my Roland JP8000.
- Moog / Realistic Concertmate MG-1 Synth - I found this unit in perfect shape at a garage sale on the US Oregon coast. It was sitting in cardboard box under a table with a $25 price tag labeled "keyboard" on the side. I looked in the box and saw the side and before I looked deeper it was under my arm. I assumed it was a Rogue, but hoped it was a MG-1 (as I already owned the Rogue at the time). It was in perfect shape and I'd guess it hardly saw use. I know I didn't use it. I fiddled with it for a few hours and it assumed the same fate as my Rogue. A MIDI-less forgotten son. This ended up being sold a few years later.
- Sequential Circuits MultiTrack Synth - I only had this for a few months. The damn thing kept getting stuck MIDI notes. Sometimes I had to restart a sequence 3-4 times before I got the entire track committed to audio. It sounded nice but I hated it. Perhaps this was just a crap machine.
- Pollard Syndrum Quad Drum Pads - I used to call these my Poo-poo drums (because they could make that sound). Really cool machine. Lots of sliders and knobs. Used on a bunch of Tic Tok Men tracks. Same reason as above, I sold this after the studio got MIDIfied. Of course I held on to them for years until I convinced myself to sell them. These sold on-line and got shipped off to Finland.
- Yamaha DX-100 Synth - I had this for about a year and used it on the Tic Tok Men Remote Control album. I didn't like this synth much. I think I was more about analog synths at the time.
- Yamaha RX-21 Drum Machine - Chuckles. Funny little thing that. I honestly don't remember what happened to this machine. Perhaps I still have it in a box someplace?
- Roland Jupiter 6 Synth - I was thrilled to find this synth in good shape. I had always wanted one. I bought it, played with it, and
thought it was the bee's knees. Then it sat and I never touched it. Yeah, it is a classic beast but honestly I think the sounds are only average.
The fidelity was sort of eeeeghh. It didn't sparkle. At the end of the day I'm happy with the software version of the Jupiter 8. It doesn't have
the same filters but it programs the same and no one can tell in a mix. So, I sold the Jupiter 6 (well over the price I got it for) and reinvested
the money back into the studio.
- Roland RS-09 Synth - I really liked the sound of this little synth. It gathered dust due to MIDIfication.
- Roland S-50 Sampler - I always wanted one of these. I ended up with a S-330, then a S-550. By the time I found and bought a S-50 I wasn't really using the other S-series very much. I was tired of the boot and load times and the inability to edit sounds on the computer and transfer to the sampler. Playing samples and setting up patches was fairly easy using the attached monitor, but recording and editing samples was crappy at best. That said, it was a damn cool machine in the day.
- Atari 1040 ST Computer - Coupled with Edit Tracs Gold, this was a sweet machine for sequencing. Of course this got pushed out for newer, faster computers. For those of you STILL working on the Atari (I know you're out there), time to upgrade. It WAS cool, now it's just sad.
- Casio SK-1 Sampler / Toy - Cute toy for a few days of fun. After the romance was over it collected dust for a few months. I think I gave this away to someone.
- Korg X-911 Guitar Synthesizer - What a wacky box this was. It was intended to track the audio from a guitar, guess the note, and play the same note from its internal tone generator. Yeah, right. Most of the time it just tracked up and down the scale looking for the note. This unit did have some cool filters but not cool enough to bother keeping it around the studio. Interesting thing about stuff like this. You buy it for $35-40 dollars at a second-hand store, sit on it for years, sell it for hundreds on Ebay. Had I known back then, I would have bought a boxload of them. But, you know what they say about hindsight? You only see the seat of your underpants (or something like that).
- Vito Bb Clarinet - Honk-squeeeek. Good-bye.
- More.... - I know there's more. I'll add them as I remember them. I might add some photos as well.
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