Should I buy... (Page 76 of 87)

for sequencing 2 synths and sampling finished songs

I would rather buy the new Waldorf PPG Wave 3.V plug-in. It sounds seriously good and is much better than the previous plug-in version.

Oh I know. Basically I told him that if it was in great physical condition that I'd give him 500. If I get it working then I get a PPG for a great price, if I can't then I should at least get my money back as is as a corpse on Ebay or wherever.

A working PPG in Edmonton would have been nice. I would have given him a good price.

Haven't heard back yet. I did also mention in the note that I would pay a "good price" for a perfeclty working one. Maybe he's looking into that. Good luck. All the techs in Edmonton are shit. John is at Cantos in Calgary but I'm loathe to ship anything.

I think he's looking for too much for it. He said it was "just" a voltage surge. Hahaha. On a PPG that could have wiped the whole thing clean and fried it to bits.

That's an average price. And a 202 is < 303. If anything, the limitation to just 2 patterns which get wipped at power-off is the major flaw of the 202, compared to the 303.
If you want the 202, by all means do it to complete the team,  but don't flip the 303, you will always regret it!

Somewhere in between? Actually the 202 is most like a rough 101. The 303 is much further away in sound and character

buy the 202, play around with it, see how you like it. You can always sell it for same or more

The 202 has a "power save" mode that puts the unit into a low power consumption mode and still retains the pattern memory, but yeah once you unplug it your patterns are gone.

I've had a 202 for ages and if I had to pick between the two I'd probably go for the 101.

I used to save patterns on floppies by sampling the tape save output on my EPS. 

seems like a lot for a 202, no?  I guess they've gone up in price with everything else
i like the sound and always assumed it was the same as the 101, except you dont get the noise osc
i once played a live set with only an 808 and 202. i just used a delay loop to cover the gaps where i was programming the new seq.

Seems like a lot for a TOM, especially with no cartridges which are next to impossible to find. But if it works perfectly and you want it, why not? Can't imagine there's a boatload of them in Europe.

They're not too common in Europe (like much of the later SCI stuff), and increasingly expensive. I found a buyer for my 707 at the same price, so went ahead and and ordered it. Can't wait!