I sold some gear…

I sold some music production gear, so it's time to pontificate at length as to why, and also talk about gear I wouldn't sell.
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00:00 Intro
01:22 Digitakt
04:57 Model:Cycles
07:23 OP-1
10:27 Gear I Would Not Sell
15:40 Outro

My current favorite music production gear:

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[KutayYavuzMusic]

I have recently bought minifreak and I highly recommend it!

[Maochan]

"Time to exploit that for content"...haha, always appreciate your honesty 👍

[martinsouthall]

I struggle with this. I think that over the years, I've given away more hardware to good friends who are getting into production, than I've bothered to sell.

[xneoken]

Watching Gabe Miller's video makes me glad my first real synth and main synth is a Novation Circuit. My Circuit is not the Tracks, but OG Circuit. A used OG Circuit is an unbelievable value!

[dracul]

I’m older. My advice… buy and store while you are young. When you are older you have lots of other financial obligations. I have enough old gear (and a place to keep it) that as long as I sell first I am never actually spending new money. Also know that sometimes gear doesn’t click with you when you get it… but it can turn into a favorite down the road. Just my opinion (which took a while to figure out, lol)

[jcemagine]

Thanks for the video, I can relate to your experience. I recently sold my Digitakt as well as Digitone and Syntakt that help fund my purchase of the MPC Key 61. As a keyboard player and singer the MPC gave me more than enough sounds to use and a workflow that made it easy to create songs. I found my Elektron gear was very useful for jamming but I was not being productive in making finished songs. The fact that the Mpc allows such a seemless workflow with software has meant I can make my song ideas on the Key 61, perform them with vocal effects to flush then out and perfect the final touches on the computer. I thought I would deeply miss the Digitakt in particular but I have been happy with the MPC. I do wonder about relying on one device as a gigging musician but so far the process has been good. I appreciate your channel and commentary. Thanks.

[johnsaunders]

I just sold my Circuit Tracks to get a MC707 and have no regrets. It's a great machine.

[johnchesters]

If you can get your hands on a Polyend Play, give it a whirl. It’s opened my eyes to how a groovebox can sequence.

So much fun.

[elekktrikk_home_video]

Sell the DT after they finally added song mode? 😢

[sinewaymusic]

I just decided to KEEP my Syntakt too. Thought I'd flip it but it's just too good! 😊 Just posted my review of it, comparing it against the Digitone. I am thinking about selling my MPC however. As much as I love it, it's a bit too much of a DAW in a box to me, and I already have a DAW.

[monsirto]

We all have complicated feelings about the MPC. Drives me completely insane sometimes. Three cheers for the OG Circuit. How good are Novation!

[unclemick-synths]

Good video 👍. I have a couple of synths that I'm not sure why I keep. The Boutique JP-08 is one. I'm probably the only person in the world who actually likes the cute little faders (a finger pinch instead of a wrist waggle) but too often it sounds like a generic analogue model shoved through something to make it sound like a Jupiter. It's hard to make sounds on it that get me excited. That same day I also bought a Reface CS which has got mojo by the bucket. The CS is definitely a keeper.

[PaulSalamoneComedy]

I've tried to sell my Digitakt 3 times. Every time I do so, I go back through and listen to all the projects I have stored on it, and then I fall in love with the sounds it can make all over again and it ends up staying in my collection. "WHY CAN'T I QUIT YOU?"

[RonCavagnaro]

Ah I'm a bit opposite right now just got a bunch more gear ! Haha I decided to pick a few gear, set it up, do videos on the gear, and record songs with them, and repeat!

[ElPimpinelas]

Last month: "What Makes the Model:Cycles Unique in 2022"
Now: "I sold the Model:Cycles"

[raysubject]

i use different trick .. when i don’t use gear for some time, i just pack it into box and hide it somewhere in closet so it disappears from my eyesign for examole for few months .. literally always when i then rediscover it, it is great moment almost like i bought new one and always lot of creativity with that hw follows :-)

[treyhudson]

My god man! I almost didn't see the "don't sell" up top when you flashed the Tracks and nearly had a heart attack! 🤣

[thethrillofnoskill]

I shed a tear for the model:cycles I've been on the edge of selling it after getting the syntakt but I've decided to order a USB power cable to it and use it as my portable elektron box

[squoblat]

wait, you can sell gear? I've had to convert a garage to fit my GAS habit in hah

[RaddMann]

I agree with your comments on OP-1. I'm keeping mine just because its so fun unique. I'm finding that my Macbook Pro laptop makes a great travel music device lately. I have my DAW and so many sound options and soft synths on there. Playing notes on the laptop keyboard is a drawback of course. I'll be interested to see what you review next now that you'll have some more room.