What was your first piece of hardware?

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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
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i forgot :)

before sp-606 i got this:
yamaha ry-10
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my first piece was a zoom drumcomputer. first sampler a MPC2000.
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Technics SP-1210
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One Stanton STR8-80 and a shitty neumark mixer, ha ha.
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ayakush wrote:i forgot :)

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


what's this, a drum machine? it looks sympathic!
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tr707.

first sampler was a yamaha su10
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(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.. :(
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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.
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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...
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Gemini mixer with 8 second sampler and boss dr rhythm drum machine
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My 404 which I picked up about a year ago.

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

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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
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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.. :D
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