What new booty have you acquired? (Page 19 of 189)

Gakken Analog Synth SX-150

Casio FZ-1 aka Hohner HS1.
38,5 lbs (17,5 kg)
Massive piece of gear.

cool!

I got the old black casio version.
it was a really nice solid MIDI controller for years.

I love the look of it in white!

yes it needs to be bend...
there's an external source input, i thought i could use it as CV or gate but it's not working.
i can stop myself making noises , it's useful especially during long and boring phone calls

i can see your point mono-poly.
it seems so easy to bend, makes me wanna try.

I bought this Octave Cat SRM (not sure which SRM 1 or 2) off Ebay. I had to sell my Waldorf Q Rack to get er done but I think it will be worth it. I have other VA synths and with my budget I think is as close as I'm going to get to an Odyssey. Or Odyssey type synth. A couple of amazing Youtube videos with it put me over the edge.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi … 0324695657

i've thought about those gakken synths - could be great to mod with noise gen and trigger input, for percussion...not that i know anything about modding...but at their cost, it's not a huge problem if you fuck things up...

meant trigger it. shame it doesn't take pitch info through CV, guess one's got to get his fingers "dirty" on the keyboard .

got one of these for 150 with a case:

I got a Drumtraks for $150 a coupla months ago but with a broken metronome out knob.

I love it. It has quenched my thirst for a DMX or Linn for now and the one I bought had all 99 memories full of awesome hiphop, funk and disco rhythms. You could tell there were different parts of about ten songs and then about 40-50 wonderful solo rhythms.

I bought some KRK 8s (the cheaper ones) at a pawn shop today for $150 Canadian and thought I'd struck gold in my cheap monitor quest but one of them doesn't make sound at all. No thump, no noise, nothing. It powers up but no sound. I did every concievable test. Too bad, because the other one is fine and they're in decent cosmetic shape. The crossover switch sticks as the lady at the pawn shop put it. Well, it sticks because it's probably broken off from the inside and can't find a setting at all.

I could get somebody to look at it but I bought them on the condition that I could bring them back if they don't work so I'm just going to do that.

I'm still trying to decide whether I want to buy powered monitors in the $500-$600 range (Yorkvilles, cheap KRK 8s, M-Audios) or spend the same amount on an audiophile brand of bookshelves and power it with an amp that's probably better than what's inside those budget monitors. And later add a sub if need be.

Powered are just so convenient. And I do like me some convenience.

just received the kits from Elby Design for the Panther modules...
Xmas holidays building

I dunno - seems hard to get non-powered monitors these days, but I'm really dubious as to how much quality you get in the cheaper ones... seems to me that the downside of having 2 amplifiers per speaker is twice the number of amplifiers used for a given setup = each amplifier is half the quality of what you'd get if you just had 2 amplifiers for 2 speakers.....

Also, I like having a power amp in my rack that I can easily reach and turn off/down if needed!

2009 is looking to be a year for me that includes audio interface upgrading and monitor upgrading - very unsure of what's worth getting at the moment though.