What synth do you most regret selling?

peterkadar

This is hard...

SY-99
FS1r
K5000r
Moog Prodigy
Polymoog w/poly pedal... it caught fire in my parent's basement, I sold it back to the guy for $150, he plugged it in and it worked perfectly... arrrrrgh!!!!
My first Juno 106... it was in PERFECT shape....

fac · Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:05 pm Post subject:

I don't actually regret selling anything, because I always did it to buy something better, but I wish I could have kept some of these:

- Juno 106 - had one bad voice, though.
- Korg X5D - my first synth.
- Moog Prodigy - it was missing the first key, but sounded huge.
- JP8000 - Nice sound and great interface.
- Yamaha VL70m - great sounds. You don't see these very often.
- Yamaha FS1R - one of the most beautiful sounding modules out there.
- Nord Micromodular - fun little unit.
- ESQ-1 - great pad source.
- Korg MS2000R - my first VA.
- Oberheim Matrix 6R - flexible and good sounding, but annoying to program
- Emu MP7 - Great workstation. I wish I had dedicated more time to it.
- Akai S2800 - Cheap but punchy. Used to use it as a VA when I didn't have one.
- Korg ER-1 - I love this thing and will probably buy one again.

okto · Joined: Jul 20, 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Texas

Juno-60. Miss that noisy lady something awful. Nothing quite sounds like it--right down to the key scanner clock noise in the output mine had. Razz

Shreddie · Joined: May 12, 2009 Posts: 96 Location: UK

I don't regret selling any of my synths... Because I've never sold any of them!

cbm · Joined: Oct 25, 2005 Posts: 381 Location: San Francisco

I sold a Oberheim SEM in the mid to late 1970s.

I sold a four-panel Serge for next to nothing in the early 1980s.

crazeydazey · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 12:06 am Post subject:

Korg Delta
Korg Lambda (if you can call it a synth.. was pretty cool though..)
Roland MC202
Korg KPR-77 (again not a synth a drum machine, but still regret selling it)

never going to sell anymore instruments, it makes me sad Sad

jksuperstar · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:28 am Post subject:

Korg Es-1 : Miss the pattern sampling
Nord Modular : Replaced by the G2, but it was it's own synth

modulator_esp · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:11 pm Post subject:

Don't really regret selling anything that much, but of those I've sold the one I'd be most likely to buy again is the Korg Mono/Poly, because it's a great synth. I only sold it when I got my Voyager and no longer had room for it.

softfin · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:35 pm Post subject:

Yamaha CS-15. After a year without it I regretted so much I bought another one. Laughing

peterkadar · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject:

Shreddie · Joined: May 12, 2009 Posts: 96 Location: UK

DrJustice · Posted: Thu Jul 30, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject:

I regret selling my Roland JX-10's - twice!

How's that for stupidity... Rolling Eyes

DJ
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modulator_esp · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 4:58 am Post subject:

I kind of regret selling my G-707/GR-700, because the synth (same as JX-3P/MKS-30) sounded really nice, but the silver guitar was pretty cool too Smile

I bought a JX-10 thinking it would be similar, but found the sound a lot different

I really should get myself an MKS-30 one of these days

peterkadar · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:30 pm Post subject:

DrJustice · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:56 pm Post subject:

Antimon · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:25 am Post subject:

I sometimes miss my DX7, mainly for the keyboard action. But those things never break, so I could always pick up a new one if I want (and find the space).

/Stefan

peterkadar · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 10:28 am Post subject:

The Delta was the one with the really nice wood cabinet though, wasn't it?

I mean, at least it looked cool, right?

I can't be so hard on the Proteus.. the bass was insane, and the filters were great!

DrJustice · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject:

peterkadar · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:41 pm Post subject:

Oh yeah!!! I had a Delta back in the day. OK string sounds though!

I thought we were talking about the Lamda.

I found a picture of it, but I don't know how to post a picture up here...

DrJustice · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 3:58 pm Post subject:

DrJustice · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject:

XpanderXT · Joined: Oct 22, 2007 Posts: 137 Location: the flat universe

no doubt, my Prophet 5.
I sold it to buy an Alpha Centauri synth and Apple IIe computer back in '84.
Worst thing I ever did. I think I sold a SH-101, TR808 and MC202 at the same time, probably to help fund the expense of a computer.

The Alpha promised a lot (poor mans Fairlight) but never delivered.

I also sold an Aries Modular and Arp 2600 that I regret selling.

elektro80 · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:17 pm Post subject:

Of the old ( now it is called vintage Shocked

) stuff I don´t really regret selling any of those. Of the new stuff I still kinda miss the Radias ( I decided to make some room in order ) as it is kinda cute, sounds good and the interface invites slighlty different excesses than some of the other gear I have ) and then I miss the Blofeld already. I returned it because I wasn´t too pleased about some faults it had. I hear the software has been improved a lot since then. I will probably not buy much new stuff any time soon. I need more space. I still need to find a place inbetween the lot for the organs and the new cabs for the dotcom synth. Shocked

Is it possible to shrink gear? scratch

And the cellar and attic is all full already. Crying or Very sad

Something is wrong when old and perfectly nice synths don´t end up as even doorstops.. but rather as insulation. Shocked

sizone · Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 5:33 pm Post subject:

In synths, as in life, I have no regrets. Everything I've gotten rid of has made way for something better. Closest to regret is selling my Korg polysix to pick up an Akai AX-60. Dunno, the Korg's pots were smoother and I miss the weird "aged wood/leaked capacitor" smell it had, but the Akai has midi w/out an expensive Kenton kit and overall it sounds more interesting.
Samplers: Here I have nothing but regrets. I gave my Casio FZ-10m to my little cousin. Not that I begrudge that, but as I gave it to him mostly because floppy disk storage was a pain I doubt he got much use out of it either. It's got the most unique (and powerful) sample loop point system I've ever found on a sampler. Combined with multiple outputs I could have easily, in hindsight, thrown together a 2 axis 4 channel mixer and used it for wavestation type sounds. I also regret having purchased a emu esi-2000 mostly because it has been a boondoggle of broken antique scsi storage devices.

Octahedra · Posted: Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:33 am Post subject: