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Moog Little Phatty Tribute Edition is...
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being used by me as the world's most expensive (non-diamond-encrusted) 37-key midi controller. What a waste. Would you part with it? Colour me torn.
I'm not minisystem analog-dude (mean that in the best possible way), but me likes to bang out a Dr Who bassline or a churning sync lead now and again. Stock cheesecake shot attached.
Anybody else have stories of expensive gear that ended up not being used to its fullest (while you spent your time with less sexy gear, like a casiotone vl-1 ... ). | |
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03/30/07
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jarvis
um, so i'll trade you my novation x-station 49 for your little phatty.
03/30/07
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monkvolcano
omg .. u bastard..
I'd use taht thing on every track!
03/31/07
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soundhdack
i'm using an xp-50 as a midi controller...
03/31/07
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cartesia
I'm using an emu command station as a keyboard (the 1 octave of pads)
soon to have a proper keyboard though, so will probably sell it
04/01/07
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skab
if you don't want to use it, sell it. with the cash you can buy yourself a really nice big weighted midi-control keyboard, and a piece of gear/software that you will use. there's no point in keeping something because it has the potential to sound good.
04/01/07
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datathinner
jdg said: "i had a virus i used as midi controller. lol"
me too. but i just sold it. so ... ZING!
04/01/07
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Horizon
man these are some sad stories but don't dispair! I think most of us go through a process of acquiring gear that we think we need but end up not really using. It is all part of the learning curve.
To learn my lesson i had to buy a fizmo, sell a fizmo to get an an1x and then sell an an1x to get a fizmo again! I am happy with the gear i have now and think it was all just part of the learning curve.
04/01/07
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lematt
ouch... i would play funk all day with this nice moogy...
edited: Apr 06 2007
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GRUFF
i am too poor to do anything other than buy cheap old / unwanted gear and learn every aspect of it trying to get the most out possible.
hey, if you want i will swap my midi controller for your moog.
04/06/07
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daswesen
I went through a period in my life where I bought a lot a lot of gear. It wasn't music gear, but unix and mainframes, and I still have this massive stack of VAXen and Suns and SGIs and I almost never used them. Forced myself to use like only a VAX for 6 months, but in the end, it's just a big amount of $$$ wasted. So now I'm doing music, I think I am pretty much cured. I got myself a Machinedrum though, but I had been thinking about this for more than a year, and I feel this was the right decision 
04/08/07
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oxymoron
Thanks for the posts, everyone!
Glad to see I'm not alone. Your posts have convinced me it's time to sell and move on....uh, soon, soon. I'll keep my cheap digital keyboards for now and plop my $90 25-key usb controller into spot of honour. Damn, LP's beautiful with a nice key feel, wheels, UI, and CV (finally used the Yamaha volume pedal as a CV controller for filter cutoff, which frees you to use a knob for resonance while controlling cutoff with the pedal ... hours of fun!). Sigh, when the kids are grown (after I actually have kids), I'll pick up a used "Voyager III- Bob Moog Cryogenic-DNA-Embedded Edition" and go at it with my arthritic fingers, hearing-aid loaded ears, and absinthe-rotted brain.
See you in the future! oxy
edited: May 21 2007
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oxymoron
OK, it's on sale in Toronto.
... and it was sold to a nice guy who's gonna use it in Saturday-morning-cartoon soundtracks. I salute you, Little Phatty!
And it's on to the DX11, which I LOVE. Dirt cheap, klangy, inspiring, well-constructed, and gorgeous (IMHO). Let's see how long it lasts at Chez Oxy...
08/21/07
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RogerRoger
Bumped!
I bought a Voyager Rackmount three weeks ago and it's already going back to North Carolina for repairs. 
The problem, in brief, was that the amp envelope was causing popping sounds on keyed note-ons. At max attack this is normal, but the pops were still as loud at 10ms attack, and the pops were not present in the headphone out, just the main outs.
Moog Music's QA sucks! Hopefully it comes back to me without any additional aggravations.
01/02/08
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oxymoron
Bump'd again.
Update. The DX11 lasted about seven months. Sold it to a good guy who's building a monster hardware rig... DX11, you were gorgeous in your own Nippon-Teutonic way, but it wasn't meant to be.
I sold the TX81Z a week before that. Looks like all my FM synthesis will be in software (oh, and Korg Prophecy).
Happy 2008 everyone!
oxy
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