What was your first piece of hardware?

LesPasta · **Posted:** Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:10 am

mine was a boss DR-5 ... there were a few keyboards before that but man what a great first sequencer.... that was sometime in early 1995

ayakush · **Joined:** Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:00 pm **Posts:** 59

i forgot

before sp-606 i got this:
yamaha ry-10

E.Simon · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2009 10:06 pm

my first piece was a zoom drumcomputer. first sampler a MPC2000.

Les Braun · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2009 7:48 am

Technics SP-1210

Dj_just_jeff · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 3:17 am

One Stanton STR8-80 and a shitty neumark mixer, ha ha.
Much has changed. I rocked a single table for EVER! Made ya get creative. used to play the radio and scratch to tunes.

ellaguru · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:16 am

ayakush wrote:

i forgot

before sp-606 i got this:
yamaha ry-10

what's this, a drum machine? it looks sympathic!

ormo · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:35 pm

tr707.

first sampler was a yamaha su10

wax inspektor · **Posted:** Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:17 pm

(Sega Master System II - 1989)

Got my first turntable in 2001 along with a shitty popitty reloop mixer. Took me a year to get a second one and even much more time to finally get a mixer with an adjustable crossfader curve.... :lol:

My first sampler was the 404 (oct 05)... since then I bought lots of shit and sold lots of shit. Things are I miss most are the RC-50 looper, MPC1k, Kaoss Pad2 and Serato..

jbl · **Posted:** Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:57 pm

ormo...tr707,sweet.

i'm retracting my original comment because the first thing i ever made a mix tape on was a GPX record/casette player from Jr. high. I wish i still had it.

ellaguru · **Posted:** Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:41 pm

ormo wrote:

first sampler was a yamaha su10

ahaah that was mine too in 1996, i sold it after one week of try and i bought the akai remix16...last month, after almost 15 years, i rebought the yamaha su10, life is strange...

Mr. Davenport · **Joined:** Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:00 pm **Posts:** 430

Gemini mixer with 8 second sampler and boss dr rhythm drum machine

SteveC · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:22 am

My 404 which I picked up about a year ago.

How I wish I had one of these when I was at Uni.

Headphones · **Posted:** Sat Oct 05, 2013 9:30 am

I think my first synth was a Roland S700? It didn't have much sample time, but I could hook it up to a tv set, but I didn't like it much at the time. I kind of had larger expectations of a sampling keyboard, but it was a fairly dated synth by the time I got my hands on it.

First drum machine was a TR707, which I think I got for cheap, but I couldn't find any memory cards for it, and I wanted to program more than 1 measure, but that's all it could do. Forgot why we parted ways, but I did get a 2nd one later. Same problem as the first, just didn't have what I needed, so it had to go again. Now, they're going up in price, so I'm kicking myself for parting with both, since if I still had them, I could have sold them off for more than I got them for.

First Vocoder was a Electric WarpFactory, but I didn't like it.

First Groovebox was a MC-505.

lodger · **Joined:** Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:00 pm **Posts:** 359

other than a yamaha psr, i had an Akai S3000XL. I ended up selling it concerned that it was going to wear out sometime soon. I'd love to get my hands on one that has a lot of life left in it someday

fathom · **Joined:** Wed May 08, 2013 11:09 pm **Posts:** 23

First piece was an EMU-E5000 Ultra sampler. Sold lots of other gear, but this I will never part with. For those who are in the know. Big up beat munger, doppler, and of course the filters.. Oh the filters ....yummy..

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