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ever bought something really expensive than regretted it? (pg. 2)
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| Nelly Banely |
| I was kind of pissed because I bought a pad controller. Needed the €€€ for monitors, but shiiiiet it had a nice pricetag on it. I didn't use it for a year then. Now I like it more and more, it's a fine piece of kit.. |
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| DjWoody |
Oh, I got quite a few things collecting dust.
1.- TRAKTOR SCRATCH PRO - Never used it live at a party and rarely use it in my studio. Why? Because everywhere I play at has a Serato mixer. lol
2.- M-AUDIO FIREWIRE 410 - All my is USB, so no need for that. I didn't know what I was doing back then. One day I just assumed that I needed one and bought it.
3.- FINAL SCRATCH - POS didn't work. It sounded like crap. I sold it on eBay for $250. Poor guy who bought it.
4.- CUBASE 4 - It's one of those thing that just because so and so was using it, I wanted it! lol , I never used it because when it came out, it wasn't compatible with my OsX and en Steinberg took forever to fix the problem. Instead, I ended up sticking to Ableton Live and gave Cubase 4 to my friend.
5.- REASON - Again, back in the days I didn't know , and it was an impulse buy. IT'S OLD! REALLY OLD! Maybe I should upgrade it and see if I like it this time.
6.- PREDATOR - When I bought it, it asked me if I wanted a dongle or a 2 computer license. Stupid me said dongle. LOL I rarely use it on my Mac Pro cuz now I mostly work off my laptop and I hate carring that thing. lol I'm gonna email Rob and see if he'll change my SN and allow me to install it on my laptop without the dongle. lol
7.- AKAI MPD 24 - I never use it.
8.- BEHRINGER BCF 2000 - This one is actually pretty sweet, but I need to spend more time with it and learn it. What I don't like is that the automation done with the BCF is written as a bunch of little dots. It's not perfectly linear or smooth lines, so it makes it a pain in the ass to try to fix little mistakes without having to rewrite that part. Again, it's probably just me that needs to spend more time to learn it.
I'm sure I got more, but this is just a small list.
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| orTofønChiLd |
| Thats quiet the list you got there woody |
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| Lolo |
| An Avid/Digidesign Protools Mix rig with 4 DSP cards at 8000$ each and the plugins that came with it. Total cost something in the lines of 70 000$. Then they announced HD and the forced move to it if you want OS X. It was either get rid of that rig ASAP or shell out an extra 25 000 again. Never again. |
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| Lolo |
| quote: | Originally posted by atxbigballer1
Roland XP-80 $600
Sucks cocks in Hell! |
Are you sure? |
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| Storyteller |
| quote: | Originally posted by deadmau5
1. Focusrites "liquid mix" back in the day... what an utter piece of that dsp was, now sitting in a box, whoever wants it |
This one.i sold it about 18 months ago and it plummeted in value just before. the plugins load very slow and provIde no advantage on cpu since they're not cpu intensive at all and none of my projects are either. The interface is fun but the plugins did not have any value for my tracks.
Second would be the novation launchpad which only works 100% in ableton live and is just lying around unused. Maybe I should try and plug it in again to see if that's still the case. I sure hope not. |
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| Raphie |
- Novation Remote SL
- AKAI MPD18 (bought it to mirror GA1 in Cubase, but too much hassle with kit mapping)
- AKAI S5000, wanted USB sampler, but AKAIsys never worked
- Virus Ti, always arp problems in Cubase. |
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| tehlord |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lolo
Are you sure? |
Teh +1
XP80 is a fantastic machine. I still miss my old 1080 and the addition of a nice 76 note keyboard has got me scouring ebay :p |
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| aquila |
| Several years back I threw a couple grand at a jp8000, jx3p and a cs1x hoping to take advantage of their individual sounds but they've just sat in the corner of my studio gathering dust |
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| Looney4Clooney |
| Advertized as nicky, went by Fred when not working. |
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| cryophonik |
| quote: | Originally posted by Raphie
- Virus Ti, always arp problems in Cubase. |
Yes, that reminds me of another regretful purchase:
- Cubase, always arp problems with my Virus TI. :)
OK, somewhat joking. Yeah, the arp sync problems were a big problem for a long time (still are somewhat), but I have never experienced them as bad with Sonar, PT, Studio One, or Live as I did with Cubase - the arp was unusable with Cubase 4 for me. Maybe Germans hate each other? |
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