I’ve only been on it for 2,5 years but I think I haven’t once gone longer than four months without buying something. And not even four months if you count the times I’ve sold something (i.e. changed my setup that way). On the other hand there’ve been some pretty intense buying periods, which is the ”best” possible way to make sure there won’t be time to learn the gear properly.
So while I’m still looking at a couple of things to trade for this month, I think a year without new gear would be a very good thing for me.
I think it’s essential for me at this point. I’m not making any music, and you can see the list above, I’m not short of resources! There will always be cool new gear I want (looking at you Vector synth) but that path is endless and doesn’t lead to making music for me!
Was gonna say I’m in until I remembered about still being up in the air on swapping out the BS2 for a dedicated midi controller (smaller footprint). So maybe not.
Gamechanger audio light pedal ( if it ever gets back from maintenance )
2x Roland EV-5 ( expression pedal )
Boss FS 5U ( sustain pedal )
Bastl Midi looper
Blokas midi hub
Tascam Model 12
SSL2+
Novation SL61 MK3
Komplete Kontrol s61 mk1
Zoom h5N
CME xkey 37
A drawmer 1968 mkII which is on sale…
I’m expecting delivery of a little synth I ordered years ago…Called Osmose…
Squier jazzbass
Epiphone lespaul custom
It is something to see all this written down even if most are only accessories.
Plugins :
I’m desperately waiting for a sample robot sale before the end of the year to stay true to the challenge…
I mainly use :
NI pianos ( komplete 13 )
Massive X / fm8
Hy plugins
U-He HZ zebra,diva,repro
Valhalla verbs
Aparillo
Custom reaktor ensembles
Trk01
Monark
A bunch of channel strips, compressors, distortions.
I use bitwig as main daw, reaper for scoring and recently invested in melodyne.
I have an album in the mixing stage and I plan to release another this coming year along live performances with several other artists ( we’re working on that ).
Um… it seems we have some cheats amongst us as it appears many of you actually live in music shops…!!!??
My current set up (with 4 weeks to go…)
TR8S
Circuit rhythm
TD-3
Korg minilogue
Soundcraft notepad 12fx mixer
Tascam DR 40x
Cheap delay and reverb pedal
Also a couple of guitars (acoustic/resonator and electric) though I keep my electro and guitar stuff separate as a rule-i tend to like acoustic blues on guitar and techno once machines get involved so not a huge cross over!!
Hello!
I’m not buying much gear usually. But I still think that it could be interesting to try this. So count me in.
My gear is
Digitakt
Digitone
Keystep
Volca bass
Novation circuit OP (although, not really using it)
Midi quadra thru
Behringer 1202 (this is something that I wanted to upgrade sometimes, but will try to live with it for the next year, let’s see how it works)
A half broken beatstep
Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, two basses.
A couple of mics.
Pioneer Ddj-400
And by now I would actually like to deepen the dt-dn combo. Most of the times I think it’s all I need.
Signing up! Any motivator for not buying is always good I guess.
I made it through 2021 with just 3 purchases, at the start and now at the end of the year. An Eventide pedal, a MIDI/CV converter and an eurorack phaser. Pretty happy with them, all three purchases felt justified, the stuff I got actually made me produce more noise, not get lost in learning some new synth interface or whatever.
Funny how a few months without any purchase makes you home in on what is really causing the roadblocks in the setup. Let’s see what one year will do.
Not sure how hard it will be to do no purchase at all, after all zero is still much less than three.
I bought quite a few these days, but I’m a bit disappointed that some of them tend to crash the host. The “random” button on bram bos Kosmonaut for example…