I had a Roland U220 and used it on loads of stuff. But then I got completely bored with all the sounds and found it hackneyed. In the end I left it in my garden for a year as at the time they were almost worthless ( about 30 bucks like yours ) - It still worked after a year in the wind and rain and I made a video about it and got lots of hate for it. Good to see someone else who didn't really rate the things !
I wanted a simple drum machine cheap, that I can take with me and just lay out drums on the go. I got a Korg Volca Drum, and while it's a cool little unit, more capable than just drums. I have to synthesize all the sounds first, which taken the place of laying out the beats, it was just a bit more time consuming than I wanted. While I can reuse beats I already made, it only stores six individual sounds. I can tune them as they are played, for things like different toms, but it starts to be a bit too limited. Good for just a straight beat, but no one needs to sit down and make those, I wanted fancy fills, etc.
One more for me. I bought a Roland SC-88 Pro. This was a general MIDI module, which is still used by some retro gamers (in fact, there's a VST version on Roland Cloud). The sellng point was that it had lots of voices in it and could play 16 of them at once. But I found the voices flat and uninspiring, when played live, you were llimited to mostly single voices, which were also not great, and the audio interfaces were inconvenient RCA jacks. Even though Sound-On=Sound had raved about it at the time, I was unimpressed and never used it. I think it's still in my closet.
There isn't a musician alive that has not had a few episodes of buyers remorse. One of mine was a Curbow Bass Guitar that was pretty but sounded god awful as my skills developed. Unfortunately I could not return it so I eventually sold it. The more painful stories are gear that I sold 😢
this video brought a few smiles to my face... i forgot some of these pieces i used to own (although i'm happy to say i still have most everything i've ever owned)... if i had to name ONE piece of gear from the nearly FIVE DECADES of gear accumulation that was the biggest waste i think i'd pick the Aphex Type C Aural Exciter (and i even still have that! it's not worth selling/shipping)...
Love these trips down memory lane while the whole prosumer home recordist market was germinating. I still rather like rack gear and have a fair share of modules (kind of eying the EMU Morpheus at the moment LOL). Owned the Tx16W for a while and yeah the OS was crazy but I did learn it enough to make use of the unit. Tried out the U110. Did not like it and did not keep it. At least you avoided those other specific modules like the ‘Drum and Bass’, etc. You sort of highlighted the ‘instead of dipping your toes, just dive in’ purchase path. I am going through that right now with wanting to add Neve ‘style’ color in my outboard. Yeah I could go cheap with a clone but am I simply going to trade up to the real deal and be happier in the end and have a piece for life. On balance, I have more regrets of stuff I moved on that I wish I still had. Sigh.
TX16W !!!!! Another Victim! That's been at the very top of MY WORST list since I bought it in the early nineties... presets (floppies) sounded great..... but editing? Hahahahaha Still have it -- pristine -- it's ready for an interactive museum where the visitor can try to program it..... with an aspirin kiosk right there.... could be a real money-maker
For me : Yamaha FB-01. Alesis Micron. Yamaha DX-21. Native Instruments (Pro-53, B-4, FM-7, Etc). I loved the soft synths, but swapped CPU chips in my XP machine and couldn't reauthorize after they shut the authorization server down. You should do a video of what you'd never let go of......
Great video.....mine....anything behringer.....ive tried thrice and all 3 different models developed glitches...usually within the 1st year or just ot of warranty.... The voice of " you get what you pay for" resounds in my brain....i think ive learned after the arp knock off....but that obx clone knockoff keeps nagging me making me miss my OBXa..... idk,hopefully reason and budget rules over more frustration....they all can't be bad can they? 😂😂😂
Peavey Dual Delta FX. It was on sale for $100 at the music store and I bought it on an impulse thinking "How bad could it be?". Bad enough to still be sitting in my rack 10 years later and not been used once. Haha, re-edit because I found the sellers remorse video. I'm new here.
This is in important issue. Everything you own is a responsibility. If you don’t use it and/or take care of it, it just becomes a burden. For the last six months I’ve made a serious thinning of my possessions. Not just the studio equipment. I’ve reduced my “back pack” about 30 % by giving to friends, charity, recycling and thrashing. I decided to keep only the things I can see myself using in the NEAR future and that they are in the best possible condition. My workflow and life in general has improved a lot. As an added bonus, I have lots of room for new exciting stuff 😀 Re: The Roland MT-32 Multi-Timbral Synthesizer Module. It had it’s moment of greatness when Sierra started publishing video games supporting it as a MIDI sound generator thru General MIDI. It really improved on the 8 bit audio of eighties computers. At the time I was blown away by the sound track of the “latest” Larry game. As a studio sound module it was very limited compared to my DX 7/TX 802, Proteus 1, Prophet 600 and TR 505 set up.
The only purchase I regret is the Yamaha 01V. I remember walking into the shop, torn jeans, and telling them: 'I'd like a Yamaha 01V, please.' 'Do you know how much it costs?' they asked. 'Yes,' I replied. Because it cost around 3700 Dutch guilders at the time. Adjusted for inflation, that around €2100. Not only did Yamaha issue the much more capable 01V96 soon afterwards, it also never fulfilled what I had in mind for it. Before long, multi-channel audio interfaces became the norm to connect gear to your PC, and the bulky, heavy 01V had no more use for me. They go for around €200 these days. I'd rather have it collect dust in a corner than sell it for 10% of what I paid for it. And who knows, maybe one day I'll use it. It did actually get used once, during an ad-hoc band performance.
I don’t agree about the U220 ( as long as you didnt pay too much), if you have a lot of analog but need some “real” instruments & on a tight budget it was just the thing ( I still like its piano....that said I bought the P330 piano module for no good reason - never used so it was a waste of money 😅. I also got the mc808- lack of screen made it PIA to me... I should have got the mc909- which I did & still have 10years later🙂
I liked my Roland D20 better than Korg M1. The M1 just didn't want me to edit sounds. The D20 did some note stealing but was a lot more more fun. Yet the worst gear I bought was a Korg 707. Enough Korg bashing...I love the KingKorg 😅 It does MiniMoog, Prophets 5, MS20 sounds (within a window) etc. At a press of a button it is a vocoder (pretty good one). Best gear ever bought, used Jupiter 50 and new (when cheaper) Subsequent37.
I have a BBE Sonic Maximizer and they are great for table top hardware jams ... I wouldn't run a whole mix thru one. Primarily because mine is mono only! 😆 It's just a fun lil pedal to have around but #1 I got a great deal on it #2 it's the COOL LOOKING one. 😉 I currently use a VoiceTone XT Create when I record my voice. It's the "Sonic Maximizer" of voice overs! 😆
Roland MC-303.But everyone made that mistake so it don´t count. I have to say SEQUENTIAL Prophet Rev 2. I just can´t make it sound nice. I has like a harsh sterile thing over the sound. People who don´t know anything about my experience just say I can´t program synthesizer and it´s nothing wrong with the sound in Rev 2. I can ensure you I know quite a bit (35 years experience) how to program synthezisers and i have 20+ modern and vintage synthesizers to compare my Rev 2 with. I just can´t get any nice sounds from the Rev 2. I want to love it, but I can´t. Yes, I can sell it. I bought it new for like 1200 Euros and it´s like 2300 Euros now, but I want to like it. I wish I never boght it.
I have the REV2 16-voice in my studio right now. It is actually my son’s. He used it to great effect live. Wondering if that works better. I have yet to really explore it but will say I tried a Prophet 6 and immediately loved it. If I didn’t have a Third Wave I would consider picking up the module, but probably would go OB6 for a different filter flavor.
First off, my own buyer's remorse includes anything from Yamaha. I don't know how this works, it seems that this company's products are absolutely incompatible with me. And secondly, have you considered the possibility that you may have a thing against racks? it seems so, since 8 of your 11 items on this list were racks, so.. just saying.. great video.
I am kind of with you on Yamaha. The only piece I still have is my MODX which I love but it is hamstringed by some strange OS features, particularly with MIDI spec and sequencer. Love the sound though and is easier for me to navigate than the MOTIF I had before.
My two keyboard synths (the rest are racks) are a Yamaha AN1x and a silver EX5. They're both beautiful instruments, albeit that the EX5 is a bit of a flawed gem, and more difficult to understand than quantum mechanics.
I don't think I have anything against rack gear. I did try the whole one controller, almost everything in a rack approach for about 6 months and didn't like it. I did a rack purge about 6 years ago, and regret selling almost everything. M1R, S-550 (x2), D-550, Motif ES Rack, QSR, and more. I really feel my rack key modules get less use than ones with keys. On the other hand, I love hardware effects and have several looped into my DAW. Appreciate the comment.
Hey, I don’t appreciate you calling me a “dyslexic hamster”. 🐹 j/k I enjoyed this as I bought a lot of the things you did or coveted them. So much disappointment!
The Emu PK6 synth and Yamaha A5000 sampler were my main money wasters back in the days. Never really got into them, and was happy to be able to sell them for half the price I bought them for. That was bout 20 years ago. I still buy on impulse more than I should, I suffer from chronic GAS, but I review the machines way better upfront. CZcams has its purpose 😊
I agree on most of the items with you, except the U-220 which served me for several years as a very affordable backing band with usable sounds and separate outs. And maybe you know this song was made for 99% with the U-220: czcams.com/video/cWz6y3QAPUI/video.html
I really wanted a sampler in the early 90's and bought a used Akai X7000 from 1986. It had very limited sample memory, poor fidelity and used tiny 2.5" floppy disks, which were slow and hard to find. I was never happy with the sound and eventually just gave up on it. I didn't buy another hardware sampler for years.
It's never a waste of time watching your videos. Thank you.
Thanks, Hannah, appreciate the comment.
Thank you forr going straight the point and being brief. Subscribed.
Appreciate the comment and the sub.
I had a Roland U220 and used it on loads of stuff. But then I got completely bored with all the sounds and found it hackneyed. In the end I left it in my garden for a year as at the time they were almost worthless ( about 30 bucks like yours ) - It still worked after a year in the wind and rain and I made a video about it and got lots of hate for it. Good to see someone else who didn't really rate the things !
Thanks for sharing.
I wanted a simple drum machine cheap, that I can take with me and just lay out drums on the go. I got a Korg Volca Drum, and while it's a cool little unit, more capable than just drums. I have to synthesize all the sounds first, which taken the place of laying out the beats, it was just a bit more time consuming than I wanted. While I can reuse beats I already made, it only stores six individual sounds. I can tune them as they are played, for things like different toms, but it starts to be a bit too limited. Good for just a straight beat, but no one needs to sit down and make those, I wanted fancy fills, etc.
One more for me. I bought a Roland SC-88 Pro. This was a general MIDI module, which is still used by some retro gamers (in fact, there's a VST version on Roland Cloud). The sellng point was that it had lots of voices in it and could play 16 of them at once. But I found the voices flat and uninspiring, when played live, you were llimited to mostly single voices, which were also not great, and the audio interfaces were inconvenient RCA jacks. Even though Sound-On=Sound had raved about it at the time, I was unimpressed and never used it. I think it's still in my closet.
What's more painful, the buyer's remorse stories or the seller's remorse stories?
Sellers for sure
sellers!
Both :( 😂
Sometimes the worst gear makes the best stories.. did I ever tell about.....
dyslexic hamster is great! hahaha I knew some devices/instruments OS programmed by it.
Thanks for the comment.
I like the way you explain things. A bit of humor and interesting topics. Thank you
Thanks Fred, appreciate the comment.
There isn't a musician alive that has not had a few episodes of buyers remorse. One of mine was a Curbow Bass Guitar that was pretty but sounded god awful as my skills developed. Unfortunately I could not return it so I eventually sold it. The more painful stories are gear that I sold 😢
That’s too bad about the Cort. They make some good products that benefit from some simple upgrade. But it is probably hit and miss.
this video brought a few smiles to my face... i forgot some of these pieces i used to own (although i'm happy to say i still have most everything i've ever owned)... if i had to name ONE piece of gear from the nearly FIVE DECADES of gear accumulation that was the biggest waste i think i'd pick the Aphex Type C Aural Exciter (and i even still have that! it's not worth selling/shipping)...
Love these trips down memory lane while the whole prosumer home recordist market was germinating. I still rather like rack gear and have a fair share of modules (kind of eying the EMU Morpheus at the moment LOL). Owned the Tx16W for a while and yeah the OS was crazy but I did learn it enough to make use of the unit. Tried out the U110. Did not like it and did not keep it. At least you avoided those other specific modules like the ‘Drum and Bass’, etc.
You sort of highlighted the ‘instead of dipping your toes, just dive in’ purchase path. I am going through that right now with wanting to add Neve ‘style’ color in my outboard. Yeah I could go cheap with a clone but am I simply going to trade up to the real deal and be happier in the end and have a piece for life.
On balance, I have more regrets of stuff I moved on that I wish I still had. Sigh.
TX16W !!!!! Another Victim! That's been at the very top of MY WORST list since I bought it in the early nineties... presets (floppies) sounded great..... but editing? Hahahahaha
Still have it -- pristine -- it's ready for an interactive museum where the visitor can try to program it..... with an aspirin kiosk right there.... could be a real money-maker
Hydrasynth. Instant remorse. Plethora of possibilities, but harsh stone cold sound. If you don't hear that, visit a doctor.
Can't agree.
I also cannot agree.
Quite the contrary. One of the best poly synths of the decade.
Appreciate you subscribing, sK3LeTvM1.
Your niche channel fits my tastes perfectly.. btw my house is literally full of gear..
Thanks, Jeff. If it gets too crowded in your house, we can all help you with that. Appreciate the comment.
Oh gosh, where to start... both my patchbays, a bunch of broken LXPs, every analogue mixer (always something wrong on them), SCI Multi-trak.
For me : Yamaha FB-01. Alesis Micron. Yamaha DX-21. Native Instruments (Pro-53, B-4, FM-7, Etc). I loved the soft synths, but swapped CPU chips in my XP machine and couldn't reauthorize after they shut the authorization server down. You should do a video of what you'd never let go of......
I may just do that, thanks for the idea.
The way this video started was like a buyers remorse help group 😅 I feel the pain
LOL. All musicians need a help program to get us over our gear addiction. Thanks for the comment.
Great video.....mine....anything behringer.....ive tried thrice and all 3 different models developed glitches...usually within the 1st year or just ot of warranty....
The voice of " you get what you pay for" resounds in my brain....i think ive learned after the arp knock off....but that obx clone knockoff keeps nagging me making me miss my OBXa..... idk,hopefully reason and budget rules over more frustration....they all can't be bad can they? 😂😂😂
Thanks for sharing
I enjoy most of the Korg Volca line, but the NuBass and the Mixer were a mistake for me. Also, the Circuit Tracks. It does not fit my workflow well.
Peavey Dual Delta FX. It was on sale for $100 at the music store and I bought it on an impulse thinking "How bad could it be?". Bad enough to still be sitting in my rack 10 years later and not been used once.
Haha, re-edit because I found the sellers remorse video. I'm new here.
Welcome, and thanks for subscribing.
This is in important issue.
Everything you own is a responsibility.
If you don’t use it and/or take care of it,
it just becomes a burden.
For the last six months I’ve made a serious
thinning of my possessions.
Not just the studio equipment.
I’ve reduced my “back pack” about 30 %
by giving to friends, charity, recycling and thrashing.
I decided to keep only the things I can see myself using in the NEAR future
and that they are in the best possible condition.
My workflow and life in general has improved a lot.
As an added bonus, I have lots of room
for new exciting stuff 😀
Re: The Roland MT-32 Multi-Timbral Synthesizer Module.
It had it’s moment of greatness when
Sierra started publishing video games
supporting it as a MIDI sound generator thru General MIDI.
It really improved on the 8 bit audio of eighties computers.
At the time I was blown away by the sound track of the “latest” Larry game.
As a studio sound module it was very limited compared to my
DX 7/TX 802, Proteus 1, Prophet 600 and TR 505 set up.
Ahhh, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be….. 😂 Great video 👍🏻
Thank you, kind sir.
The only purchase I regret is the Yamaha 01V. I remember walking into the shop, torn jeans, and telling them: 'I'd like a Yamaha 01V, please.'
'Do you know how much it costs?' they asked.
'Yes,' I replied.
Because it cost around 3700 Dutch guilders at the time. Adjusted for inflation, that around €2100. Not only did Yamaha issue the much more capable 01V96 soon afterwards, it also never fulfilled what I had in mind for it. Before long, multi-channel audio interfaces became the norm to connect gear to your PC, and the bulky, heavy 01V had no more use for me.
They go for around €200 these days. I'd rather have it collect dust in a corner than sell it for 10% of what I paid for it. And who knows, maybe one day I'll use it. It did actually get used once, during an ad-hoc band performance.
I don’t agree about the U220 ( as long as you didnt pay too much), if you have a lot of analog but need some “real” instruments & on a tight budget it was just the thing ( I still like its piano....that said I bought the P330 piano module for no good reason - never used so it was a waste of money 😅. I also got the mc808- lack of screen made it PIA to me... I should have got the mc909- which I did & still have 10years later🙂
I traded my beautiful blue Portastudio 414 for an SH-101. The deal was a great one for me, but i do miss the Portastudio and wish i hadn't let it go.
Julian Assange speaking about gear...
Modx. It's like Yamaha UI designers love to cause pain on their costumers
Better than the Motif for me though.
Not sure maybe Roland D110. I think it's got potential but haven't had the time for it yet 😂
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90% of my plug in list
Yeah, and software isn't returnable. I feel your pain. Thanks for sharing.
I liked my Roland D20 better than Korg M1.
The M1 just didn't want me to edit sounds. The D20 did some note stealing but was a lot more more fun.
Yet the worst gear I bought was a Korg 707.
Enough Korg bashing...I love the KingKorg 😅
It does MiniMoog, Prophets 5, MS20 sounds (within a window) etc. At a press of a button it is a vocoder (pretty good one).
Best gear ever bought, used Jupiter 50 and new (when cheaper) Subsequent37.
I have a BBE Sonic Maximizer and they are great for table top hardware jams ... I wouldn't run a whole mix thru one. Primarily because mine is mono only! 😆 It's just a fun lil pedal to have around but #1 I got a great deal on it #2 it's the COOL LOOKING one. 😉 I currently use a VoiceTone XT Create when I record my voice. It's the "Sonic Maximizer" of voice overs! 😆
Thanks for sharing!
Ah! the MT-32. Noisy thing. I traded it in for a SC-55 which I regret selling.
The SC55 has a sound doesn’t it. Warm and workable. I have the SB55 too. That box is a pain.
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Roland MC-303.But everyone made that mistake so it don´t count.
I have to say SEQUENTIAL Prophet Rev 2. I just can´t make it sound nice. I has like a harsh sterile thing over the sound. People who don´t know anything about my experience just say I can´t program synthesizer and it´s nothing wrong with the sound in Rev 2. I can ensure you I know quite a bit (35 years experience) how to program synthezisers and i have 20+ modern and vintage synthesizers to compare my Rev 2 with. I just can´t get any nice sounds from the Rev 2. I want to love it, but I can´t. Yes, I can sell it. I bought it new for like 1200 Euros and it´s like 2300 Euros now, but I want to like it. I wish I never boght it.
I have the REV2 16-voice in my studio right now. It is actually my son’s. He used it to great effect live. Wondering if that works better. I have yet to really explore it but will say I tried a Prophet 6 and immediately loved it. If I didn’t have a Third Wave I would consider picking up the module, but probably would go OB6 for a different filter flavor.
First off, my own buyer's remorse includes anything from Yamaha. I don't know how this works, it seems that this company's products are absolutely incompatible with me. And secondly, have you considered the possibility that you may have a thing against racks? it seems so, since 8 of your 11 items on this list were racks, so.. just saying.. great video.
I am kind of with you on Yamaha. The only piece I still have is my MODX which I love but it is hamstringed by some strange OS features, particularly with MIDI spec and sequencer. Love the sound though and is easier for me to navigate than the MOTIF I had before.
@@trebleboost7I got rid of my Modx. Has excelent sounds, but that UI is hellish
My two keyboard synths (the rest are racks) are a Yamaha AN1x and a silver EX5. They're both beautiful instruments, albeit that the EX5 is a bit of a flawed gem, and more difficult to understand than quantum mechanics.
I don't think I have anything against rack gear. I did try the whole one controller, almost everything in a rack approach for about 6 months and didn't like it. I did a rack purge about 6 years ago, and regret selling almost everything. M1R, S-550 (x2), D-550, Motif ES Rack, QSR, and more. I really feel my rack key modules get less use than ones with keys. On the other hand, I love hardware effects and have several looped into my DAW. Appreciate the comment.
Hey,
I don’t appreciate you calling me a “dyslexic hamster”. 🐹 j/k
I enjoyed this as I bought a lot of the things you did or coveted them. So much disappointment!
Appreciate the comment.
The Emu PK6 synth and Yamaha A5000 sampler were my main money wasters back in the days. Never really got into them, and was happy to be able to sell them for half the price I bought them for. That was bout 20 years ago.
I still buy on impulse more than I should, I suffer from chronic GAS, but I review the machines way better upfront. CZcams has its purpose 😊
We're all victims of the impulse buy, appreciate the comment.
Almost every Behringer monosynth except my Odyssey.
mac pro's 4,1/5,1 digidesign sync , 192's 96 , 003 , and not having an ilok as don't record that much going to pass it on
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I agree on most of the items with you, except the U-220 which served me for several years as a very affordable backing band with usable sounds and separate outs. And maybe you know this song was made for 99% with the U-220: czcams.com/video/cWz6y3QAPUI/video.html
I really wanted a sampler in the early 90's and bought a used Akai X7000 from 1986. It had very limited sample memory, poor fidelity and used tiny 2.5" floppy disks, which were slow and hard to find. I was never happy with the sound and eventually just gave up on it. I didn't buy another hardware sampler for years.
Thanks for sharing and subscribing.