2020 a year in gear (what have you/are you bought/buying?)

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I'm seriously considering about selling all my software synths..

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Pre-ordered a Korg Wavestate. Didn't really intend to buy any other gear until later in the year, but since I'd been hoping for years that an updated Wavestation would come along, I just couldn't resist.
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Welp, I pre-ordered a Korg/Arp 2600. That's most of my gear budget for 2020, but I haven't been this excited about something for a while.

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Sold so far in 2020: Teenage Engineer OP-Z, Synthstrom Deluge, Seymour Duncan Andremeda, Moog Sirin (for sale, pm me if interested)
New for 2020: Elektron Analog Four MKII, Soma Lyra-8, Allen & Heath WZ320S

Basically, I've decided that I want all my gear to play nicely together and not have to fight to get it all to work. The AF goes with my previous Elektron gear (DN, DT, AR MKII) and the Lyra helps add some randomness to all the sequenced gear. I just discovered the WZ320S mixer, it has *8* stereo input channels as first class citizens, so I have no issues routing any of my synths anymore. It's an amazing mixer, really.

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A&H MixWizards are great mixers for live sound, particularly for large synth/drum machine setups. I prefer them to the ZED series by a wide margin and over most other mixers in that price range.

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justin3am wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:31 pm A&H MixWizards are great mixers for live sound, particularly for large synth/drum machine setups. I prefer them to the ZED series by a wide margin and over most other mixers in that price range.
That's exactly what I'm using it for. There was literally only one available online to purchase on Ebay/Reverb, so I grabbed it right away. It's a mixer with great sound and a tremendous amount of flexibility. I don't understand why they dropped it when they went to the MixWizard 4 line.

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justin3am wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:08 pm Welp, I pre-ordered a Korg/Arp 2600. That's most of my gear budget for 2020, but I haven't been this excited about something for a while.
sweet christmas! :wheee:
it is a sexy piece of kit :tu:

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justin3am wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:08 pm Welp, I pre-ordered a Korg/Arp 2600. That's most of my gear budget for 2020, but I haven't been this excited about something for a while.
Nice! Can’t wait to see what you do with it.
Sadly, I am about $800 short, don’t think I’ll be able to scrape the rest together before they sell out. Oh well, congrats on that. :tu:

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Got a Microfreak for £213 from Bax.co.uk. Can't play with it yet though cos my back is fooked.
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cytospur wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:52 pm Got a Microfreak for £213 from Bax.co.uk. Can't play with it yet though cos my back is fooked.
:hug:
know that feeling all too well. managed about an hour in the studio since december started.

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Must be something in the water, my back's had it too; missing a crust punk gig in Margate tonight :/

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Got the Hertz Donut mk2. The seller had the power cable plugged in backwards on the board, and I thought the module was DOA at first. Thankfully it has reverse power protection, and worked fine once I flipped it.

My first impression, or re-impression, I guess, is that the absolute basic FM sound between the mk2 and mk3 is a LOT more similar than I thought -- it's the waveshaper that gives it more bite, even when the amount is set too low to notice without FM.

I was hoping the mk2 would just be an immediate clear favorite, but there's a whole complex set of pros and cons I'm going to have to sort out. I could theoretically keep both Donuts and Akemie's Castle and still make room for the E520, but that's just FM overkill :)

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Deckard’s Voice Eurorack...

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Forgotten wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2020 11:40 pm
Meffy wrote: Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:16 pm Pack of saxophone mouthpiece cushions
You spoil those mouthpieces, you really do...
Me Gaffer's quite the poshy too.

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Bought a DNIPRO DOT as I had missed out on the first batch, but mostly because it's just cool. :)

https://www.dnipro-modular.net/dot
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Seriously considering a second Deckard's Voice module and making something like this
with one of the empty MN skiffs I have, a dedicated Black Corp CS80 rig...

https://www.modulargrid.net/e/racks/view/1100416

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