Your first serious equipment purchase.

What was everyones first equipment purchase? I am going to get an EMX-1 and/or an MPC500, not sure what order. I have played with software for a while but i am looking into actually purchasing something to move myself forward.

Roland MC-303 lol

korg x5d, because that's what we used in the class that got me started on this stuff

i'd get the emx-1 and save up for an mpc1000

The first equipment I purchased was an Oxygen8v2 and a Korg PadKontrol along with a new laptop and Ableton Live. If you want actual hardware then my only purchase has been a DSI Tetra. Not sure why you think anything will "move you forward", you decide what you do with the equipment you have at hand. Buying that nice thousand dollar piece of equipment doesn't mean shit unless you can actually do something with it.

Live has changed how I produce more than anything else.

Alesis SR-16 I think, that thing sucked

Roland MC-202 and TR-606

Novation Xio Synth 49, bought it three years ago, still using it but the DC supply doesn't work anymore so I have to use it as an USB device everytime, and that's pretty annoying.

Yep.

Not a sequencer though.

yamaha rm1x. bought it when i was still in highschool. it was about 1200 including tax.

sold it and bought another off ebay the other day and it's in the mail! (this one was only 200!)

crazy how prices go up and down like that..

Korg Ms-10 was the first thing I spent over $100 on. I think it changed my outlook on synth patch design a great deal, but as far as actual song production not so much (that changes on its own slowly over time whether I'm using new tools or not).

I don't know what serious means....

Oxygen 8 was the first piece of musical gear.

First "serious" equipment purchase was probably my ex-Roland V-Synth, which I only owned for about a year before selling it for my Virus.

a PC

korg KARMA, bought it with my grandma's inheritance money when i was 13. i don't wish that keyboard on anyone.

Definitely the MS2000B, to this day I don't think I've spent as much money on anything (hell, when I got it, I got it on a payment plan), was only about $800 though I think.

The first piece of equipment I bought that I was thinking "This means serious business!" though has to have been my Fostex 8 track reel to reel with the matching mixer, ironically I didn't ever use that for a single track (moved back to Montreal less than a month after I bought it, and it's still sitting in my studio in Vancouver).

microkorg

My first music related purchase was a roland dj 1000...first synth was a alesis micron. first piece of software was either hip hop ejay or magix music maker. Shit got real serious when I bought a renoise license.

first serious equipment i ever bought was a tascam 4track tape recorder. great times.

ibanez joe satriani series

Haha, good one!

ESP Telecaster and a Roland Jazzchorus for me.

A Lotus electric bass.

  On 6/1/2011 at 4:13 AM, psn said:

Haha, good one!

 

ESP Telecaster and a Roland Jazzchorus for me.

I've heard really good things about ESP Fender duplications. Saw an ESP Precision Bass on craigslist for 700 that I'm still kicking myself for not buying. I'm surprised I even want to talk to you after reading that you bought a chorus. (I H8TES TEH CHORUS FX WIT A TONY BRAXTON)

  On 6/1/2011 at 2:46 AM, sneaksta303 said:

ibanez joe satriani series

i hopes this is joke, fag

A Jen SX1000. Because LFO had a couple of them!

  On 6/1/2011 at 9:41 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

  On 6/1/2011 at 4:13 AM, psn said:

Haha, good one!

 

ESP Telecaster and a Roland Jazzchorus for me.

 

I've heard really good things about ESP Fender duplications. Saw an ESP Precision Bass on craigslist for 700 that I'm still kicking myself for not buying. I'm surprised I even want to talk to you after reading that you bought a chorus. (I H8TES TEH CHORUS FX WIT A TONY BRAXTON)

Roland Jazzchorus is a guitar amp, also used extensively by keyboardists. Yes, it has a chorus effect on it as well as spring reverb. Mine was the JC120 with two 12" speakers. I lugged it to rehearsal every week, even though it weighs 35kg.

  On 6/1/2011 at 9:41 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

 

  On 6/1/2011 at 2:46 AM, sneaksta303 said:

ibanez joe satriani series

i hopes this is joke, fag

nooooooooope. i had this one.

and i loved it till the day it got stolen D: Shit, one i got that, i stopped lusting after other guitars it did me so right.

  On 5/31/2011 at 9:03 PM, BCM said:

Roland MC-303 lol

cost me £500! i will never trust roland again

lol me too...at the time though I thought it was brilliant. made some pretty cool stuff with it actually, wish I had some recordings still :(