[sdiy] OT: Do you guys know what's going on on eBay?

[dustin sedlacek]

i love hardware samplers ! i just got a ensoniq asrx for $300! just 6 years 
old and at one time sold for about $1500! (i think) any of the emu samplers 
are great as well as the ensoniqs for example the ensoniq mirage is a 8bit 
sampler with curtis chip filters and i just saw one of these go for 50$ also 
to watch out for is the casio FZ10 and the yamaha TX16W someone has even 
written a new OS for that one ! its some great times that we live in 
....with analog synths going up in price and hardware samplers going down 
its something like the late 80's isnt it ?


sorry for the double post for some 


On 6/15/05, tomg <e4m at houston.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> It's insane I tell you! Just insane..... It seems
> everybody has moved to softsamplers. All that
> old wonderful hardware is now a fraction of the
> original cost. SCSI drives for pennies!
> 
> I've seen S760s go for $75 and ESI-32s for $50!
> These were $600-700 just last year. If you're an
> Akai guy S1000s for $100 ???
> 
> If you don't know the Roland S760 is IMO one of
> the best sounding most clever pieces ever by anybody.
> Poor mans Fairlight. 1r sampler Make sure it's got
> video/mouse and 32MB of memory.
> 
> + AWSOME
> + Video/Mouse Editing
> + S1000 Compatible
> - 600MB HDD limit
> - No Internal HDD
> 
> The e-mu ESI-32 is just plain awesome. If you pick
> one up make sure there's scsi and 32MB of memory.
> Grab a SCSI HDD for $15.
> 
> + AWSOME
> + AWSOME
> - No wave edit display
> 
> Each has resonant filters that will self-oscillate and
> enough parameters w/midi-cc to turn any sample into
> a full fledged synth voice or whatever!! Look 'em
> up...
> 
> It requires a little work on your part but you can
> build entire synth modules on removable scsi disks
> for $5 bucks and no CPU hit. You'd think people
> would hang on to these very cool pieces.OTOH I've
> got a few cool things to sell off myself.:)
> 
> The way it works is... If it's really old or really new
> it really cost a lot... They are giving away 80s & 90s
> stuff. Don't fight over these things, keep the prices
> low. I said something about the MX6 on KVR and
> the price shot straight up. :(
> 
> Regards
> Tom
> 
> 
> 
> 


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Dustin
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