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Kontrol49 · Platinum Member Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 1280

Never dump everything for a Quick ditch attempt to cure a desire for a new unit...chances are you end up regretting selling some things and in the long run you buy them back and it'll cost you more,than if you simply kept hold of them...

Sometimes its not always financially possible to do things like that,but I try and keep hold of things and buy what I want,then if I haven't used or abused what i was going to sell anyway,then put them away and if i still haven't missed them for a couple of months then I will sell it on

I've sold things on a whim in order to buy the latest gadget and ended up missing it and then gone and bought another one,I will never sell anything in my setup now as everything has a place or use even if its for one particular sound or workflow,each device even if they overlap in certain areas gives me a nice set of sounds to work with,and I've chosen the machines I enjoy working with that add a good plethora of functions as opposed to them being the latest devices,would rather have a collection of different stuff than one device that has all the bells and whistles.

plus pretty much everything I have now was bought from new with the exception of a few bits(Z1/MC808/02R/03D) so I would be foolish to sell them to fund something else,especially if I felt the urge to buy anything again and given I look after them I wouldn't get another in the same condition..
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GregC · Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 12:34 pm Post subject:

Kontrol49 · Platinum Member Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 1280

I suppose its an individual choice,for me there was always a certain sound I made on a certain synth or something it did that although it may have not been used all the time,Once I sold it on,you kind of realised why you liked it in the first place.

Kind of the "you don't know what you had till its gone"scenario,but I've long got past that way of thinking,mainly because if I buy something,and I'm able to replicate what it does or sounds like on another synth convincingly,then usually I will let it go.

Guess it depends on whats in your setup...for me I kind of feel some of the the synths I have are specialist models,and perhaps some of them unique in that I won't get them again so easily in the secondhand market,particuarly the Andromeda,and also because the prices of some of the synths that are still availlable new like the V synth GT or the Phatty and Voyager have skyrocketed which has also made the secondhand values of those synths go up,

Happy to let Rompler type synths go,as I've offloaded several in the last 18 months or so,I had 4 tritons at one time,but pretty much between the Extreme and Oasys that ground is covered so I no longer needed them,sold the other 3 and kept the Extreme,if I had an all Rompler type setup then I think could offload most of it in favour of a Kronos if i hadn't got the Oasys.

Even with the AL-1 and MS20/POLYSIX that Oasys has I couldn't sell the Z1 or any of the Analog machines thats in the setup For me its more about the device itself and its interface than how close the AL-1 etc can duplicate those tones plus its much more fun to use those synths than edit the sounds on the Screen of the Oasys

Given the dip in Secondhand Hardware prices now,you'll never get a decent price for anything anyway.bargains to be had galore on ebay Like Akai S series samplers!!!virtually being given away..

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed a massive influx of secondhand Korg hardware on ebay,I guess this is down to everyone wanting to sell as much as they can in order to fund a Kronos!!!
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GregC · Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 1:01 pm Post subject:

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JPWC · Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 4:22 pm Post subject:

I recommend you sell your soul and no more. You won't miss you soul once it's gone. But the music equipment will haunt you forever.

I sold my Motif XS6 for a new Motif XF6, I still miss the XS and it's only been a few weeks.

When you are performing live, there are no redundancies, duplicates become backups. More keys gives you more options.

While I am confident that the Kronos could replace any of the other workstations, it can will only be able to replace 1 or 2 at a time. Having 2 or more keybeds active at any one point sure makes for great options when performing live or even at home play by one's self. I keep about 13 keyboards within reach in my home setup.
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Kontrol49 · Platinum Member Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 1280

ScoobyDoo555 · Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 5:06 pm Post subject:

LOL - with my new acquisition (and NOT including Kronos), I've got 5 to hand. Also got an A80 around here somewhere (!) Laughing

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donjuancarlos · Full Member Joined: 21 May 2011 Posts: 105

I remember selling the 01/W to get the Triton. I had the 01/W orchestral expansion pack and thought Triton's orchestral combis would be better--boy was I wrong. Here's hoping that Kronos is better.

Kontrol49 · Platinum Member Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 1280

I wish all the Synth manufacturers came together and made a Workstation that was essentially a shell and you could pick from a library all the Engines from any manufacturer that have ever been made in various Synths and handpick your own Engines for that machine....

I guess the closest to it was the Openlabs ideology With using your favourite software,there would be nothing more gratifying that say a Hardware workstation that contained 01W engine coupled with a D50 engine or V synth and Wavestation and M1 or say a JD800 or JP8000 or Nord lead or Andromeda or Voyager in one unit or you could chop and change the engines in the Library to suit your own needs and the ability to run them together in combi patches etc for some awesome timbres,under the control of an MPC4000 style sequencer that also could be used in an external monitor application with a mouse if you so wish like the MV8800 you could build it up from your own favourite synths all originally replicated in true form...Dream on dude!!!!! Shocked

Thats when I would sell everything for one machine of that magnitude!

There have been so many great Patches in all the synths I've had over the years just wish there was a way to pool them all together in one device,and sampling for me when I had those synths never really did the patches justice,especially some of the evolving pads and stuff like on the Wavestation and 01W

I was kind of Hoping that Korg were going to do this with the Oasys,in that future plugins may have come in the form of the M1/01W/Trinity/Triton Engines for Oasys,I've owned and loved all those machines and do miss certain sounds on them but have enough synths but don't want a massive collection of synths simply for a few sounds on each hence why I sold many of them on

One of the things that annoys me with Korg is there closed synthesis approach in terms of porting sounds across,Trinity to Triton could have had compatibility or at least allow loading of the PCG files even if the PCM data was different and Triton to Oasys isn't miles away neither in parameter terms,Certainly Kronos allows Oasys files but sods law when I don't have any need to buy the Kronos!!!

its one of the reasons I kind of bought into the open architecture of the Oasys seeing as they were including there Own Polysix and MS20 devices,would have been nice if the M1 had seen light of day inside the Oasys not just a few PCM samples or at least the Exi on par with the Legacy releases...Aah well can't have everything
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kimu · Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 9:31 pm Post subject: Re: Clean-up sale, Kronos in?

ozy · Guest

novation a-station is NOT real analogue

a-station is a VA: it was an offspring of the nova/supernova series. Definitely digital.

"bass station" was a nice unexpensive REAL analogue.

synthguy · Platinum Member Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 661