The most useless piece of gear you own

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  1. Lois Lane

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    47. There was a seat there, made all of ivory. Marsilie had a book
    brought forward—it was the law of Mahomet and Tervagant. And this is
    what the Saracen of Spain has sworn: If he finds Roland in the rearguard
    he will attack him with all his army and Roland shall die, if he can but
    achieve it. @recycle replies: “So let it be.”

    Kinda sorta from The Song of Roland, 11th Century epic poem by Turtold, and apropos to our converstion here and in the now.
     
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  2. eldarktufa

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    Love it! :bow:
     
  3. Gyro Gearloose

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    this company needs total boykott ...wtf...
     
  4. Blue

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    That's not what they tell on your link.
    btw they are suckers with their attitude,I can't believe it.I doubt that's legit in Europe.
    I'm not sure they wil move your already activated licence to the Roland cloud.
     
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    I had one of those Beringer things that had all the faders - can't remember if it was the bcr2000 (or was that the one with the rotary controllers?)
    Really annoying fader noise and software integration was basic at best!
     
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    BCF2000 has faders
    BCR2000 has knobs

    You can easly make Zaquencer from BCR2000 (you only need ink printer, USB MIDI Interface and software)

    ZAQ Audio Zaquencer is a very good Step Sequencer. One of the best in the market.
     
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    that was a good one for the money...you could mod the faders or also repair it
     
  8. northwinds

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    I got rid of mine years ago and replaced it with a Mackie MCU Pro which blew up the beginning of last year and couldn't get it repaired as Mackie changed the parts - still waiting till I can afford a replacement!
     
  9. Gyro Gearloose

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    but intependend electronics synths repair and stuff shop maybe can do it ?
    edit : no you get no parts for it ... sorry ,missunderstood
     
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    Digi 002 rack, literally, couldn't even give it away! Cost me a small fortune when I bought it and it was good back then but shite now! I threw it out on the curb and it sat there for weeks until finally one day it was gone, maybe someone grabbed it or maybe the municipality trashed it lol.
     
  11. Smoove Grooves

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    But the thread title says "own"! lol
     
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    We took our 7100 back to Turnkey Audio, it could not run as many tracks/channels as we had been led to believe. Even with 2 Sonnet cards, upgrading the the 8100 was another couple of thousand pounds! So we returned and swapped for a Waldorf Microwave XT, Alesis Quadraverb, 16 Channel Soundcraft, a 2 channel dj mixer, the EMU APS Suite and a Gateway PC. Best decision ever made especially the XT - SOOO LUSH!! I wish I still had it :(

    Possibly the worst purchase was a Novation Zero MK1, while I bought it really cheap in as new condition on eBay and while it's not as bad as some previously posted controllers on this thread it's pretty bad! The MK2 is somewhat better, i've yet to find a really decent controller which doesnt cost a small fortune.

    On the Powercore, I still use mine on everything, TBH don't know what i would do without it. Sucks if you are on latest MAC OS with no 32 bridged plugins... but i'm on PC so all good! Shame they killed their license servers.. there are a few plugins I would have loved to have grabbed and the email about their final discount sale at end of life went into the email spam folder so missed out. Maybe one day i will find another Poco PCIe with more plugs than mine at a bargain price ;)

    No issues with my Logitec mouse, it's an older version from the mid 90's and yes you need to clean it, but i've not experianced the same wear-down issues that you reported, perhaps their build quality went down over time, I've been considering replacing with one of the Kingston Mice so interesting to see some comments on those too :(
     
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  13. Smoove Grooves

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    Good times, back in the day!
     
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  14. joem

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    my acess virus ti 2 havent used it in years
     
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  15. Gyro Gearloose

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    did you kno its software synth in his own hw midi controller as you bought it ?
     
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    mines the desktop version the non keyboard one but yea last time i ever used it was to rip wavetables from ittouse in serum...thats it.
     
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    soo if anyone wants a ti 2 ill selliot for 650 pounds pay towards a ps5 and a couple games
     
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    rhis shit fire you using it wrong if you think its useless
     
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    Mine is CMC Controller. It was good when I was using Cubase but now after switching to Reaper and getting a MPK 261 it's useless.
    Yes I could use it in reaper but why the MPK 261 has all of these buttons and more.
    csm_CMC_top_view_master_neu_4_22_60bd3d9740.jpg
     
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    Personally i bought one when they first came out and the drivers were a joke i could not get it to work with Cubase and spent entirely too long with Presonus tech support LOL horrible customer service. even though they keep throwing beta drivers at me i eventually got it working but found the buttons jenky as was the fader itself . it finally found its way to ebay and out of my life. maybe they got it all sorted with version 2 but ill never know because ill never buy Presonus hardware again ever.
     
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