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Yamaha E1005 for $100?  Anyone know the maximum delay time on these guys?

Thanks for the link!  Looks like it has 400ms of delay (and there are internal trimpots for further adjustment).  Just waiting to hear back from the seller.  I hope it's still available.

I'm picking it up tomorrow. 

As far as I'm concerned a bit of noise and the look of a VCR only add to the awesomeness. 

Well...dude agreed to sell it to me, then sold it to someone else before I came to pick it up.  Awesome.   

Every time I thought about the Maschine I ended up changing my mind after reading their forums. Many  unhappy customers complaining about bugs and a lack of stability. I considered it again after the midi upgrade came out, but changed my mind again.
I hate that the Maschine still needs to be plugged into a computer in order to work even as a sequencer. While it's probably the most flexible live sequencer around, adding a laptop to my live setup is way to much of a liability-especially if it has a history of crashing. BTW, the Rs7000 lets you use patterns of different lengths too.

should i sell my Korg MS2000, and get Microkorg?
i know they both are the same besides the size and the keys. or am i wrong?
does the microkorg have the patch part as the MS?

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I personally think the editing of Microkorg is horrible. I even like editing Korg EX800 better. I hate it when you have to look for those corresponding parameters from the tiny-font-table. Maybe it would be ok if the selected row was illuminated with a backlight or something. On the other hand, it is quite handy for live performances, but if it is played by a sequencer I would rather swap the MS2000 for MS2000R version. If space is the only issue, the rackmount version takes the same space as Microkorg. Then again if you are going to play the thing live, about any cheap MIDI-keyboard beats those toyish minikeys.

I think Microkorg was a good budget synth back when the MS2000 was still expensive, but I really don't see why anyone would choose it over MS2k these days when they are both quite affordable. I bought my Microkorg new in 2003 or something and it cost 500€. I bought the MS2000BR about a year ago for 250€ and if I'd have to give up one of those, it would definitely be Microkorg.

I'm not aware of any differences in addition to the ones already mentioned above. Micokorg has the same EQ parameters as the MS2KR (low eq freq, low eq gain, hi eq freq and hi eq gain) but of course I can't be 100% sure they do exactly the same thing. I just assume they do since it's all around the internet that they have the same synth engine and I haven't heard any difference in the overall sound. I'm also too lazy to program the same patch to both of them just to test this out

@Honey Peters: interesting idea. i have to check how big is the rack, it kind of big.

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Excellent catch. Maybe that was a Freudian slip on my part- getting at why I spend money on music gear in the first place. I am unable to save money. So much easier blowing extra cash on cheap gear and letting it sit until I need to sell it. Or I just blindly trusted my spell checker. Either way... cheap gear = only form of investment my dumb ass is capable of.